{"id":82,"date":"2018-08-24T14:29:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","slug":"todays-important-current-affairs-24th-august-2018-for-nts-ppsc-css-govt-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/todays-important-current-affairs-24th-august-2018-for-nts-ppsc-css-govt-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Important Current Affairs 24th August 2018 for NTS PPSC CSS Govt Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>One Liner<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>PM Imran chairs cabinet meeting to discuss 7-point agenda<\/li>\n<li>Scott Morrison is new Australian PM after bitter coup. Morrison installed as 7th PM in 11 years after a stunning Liberal party revolt unseated moderate Malcolm Turnbull.<\/li>\n<li>Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar passes away at 95. He was born on August 14, 1923 in Sialkot, Pakistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>High level appointments, transfers made in Army.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday made high level command postings and transfers across Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Army\u2019s Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lieutenant General Shahid Baig Mirza has been appointed as the Inspector General (IG) Communications and Information Technology (C&amp;IT). He was earlier serving as Corps Commander Karachi.<\/li>\n<li>Lieutenant General Nadeem Raza has been made the Chief of General Staff (CGS) while the present CGS Lt Gen Bilal Akbar has been posted as Corps Commander Rawalpindi.<\/li>\n<li>Lieutenant General Naeem Ashraf who was serving as Chairman Heavy Industries Taxila(HIT) has been appointed as Corps Commander Multan.<\/li>\n<li>The present Corps Commander Multan Lieutenant General Abdullah Dogar has been assigned the post of Chairman HIT.<\/li>\n<li>Lieutenant General Humayun Aziz has been appointed as Corps Commander Karachi. He was previously working as IG C&amp;IT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lahore board announces 9th class 2018 results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Lahore, has declared the result of secondary school (Class IX) annual examination, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>According to a notification issued by the board on Monday, in Lahore, 2,50,833 candidates participated in the examination, out of which 125,838 students have been declared successful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Indonesian earthquake death toll reaches 555. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deadly earthquakes rocked Indonesia\u2019s Lombok Island this summer killed 555 people and injured nearly 1,500.<\/li>\n<li>The picturesque Island next to holiday hotspot Bali was hit by two deadly quakes on July 29 and August 5. On Sunday it was shaken by a string of fresh tremors and aftershocks, with the strongest measuring 6.9 magnitude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZDsT0Rb6n7Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Liner PM Imran chairs cabinet meeting to discuss 7-point agenda Scott Morrison is new Australian PM after bitter coup. Morrison installed as 7th PM in 11 years after a stunning Liberal party revolt unseated moderate Malcolm Turnbull. Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar passes away at 95. He was born on August 14, 1923 in Sialkot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,31,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-82","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-current-affairs","7":"tag-9th-class-2018-results","8":"tag-pakistan-affairs","9":"tag-pakistan-current-affairs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}