DAY BY DAY CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQS FOR THE MONTH AUGUST 2017 August 1, 2017 August 02, 2017 1. NAB set to file four references against Sharif 1. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi elected PM with Family thumping majority Three cases each against Nawaz, Hussain, Secures 221 votes in 342-member house Hassan; two against Maryam; one each PPP's Naveed Qamar bags 47, PTI nominee against Capt Safdar and Ishaq Dar Sheikh Rasheed 33 2. The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz`s 2. Pakistan and India concluded the much-delayed (PML-N) nominee, Shahid Khagan Abbasi, will water talks in the US capital on Aug 01, 2017 coast to an easy win in today`s election for the 3. Turkey and its main regional ally Qatar on Aug prime minister 01, 2017 launched military exercises 3. After Trump meeting, Ukraine to import US 4. Meeting of pan-Islamic group held in Istanbul thermal coal for the first time over Jerusalem tensions 4. As North Korea intensifies missile programme, 5. The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) on Aug 01, US opens $11bn base in South Korea 2017 got a new secretary as Sanaullah Awan a 5. Saudi-led bloc opens `emergency routes` to grade 20 officer of the Capital Development Qatari planes Authority (CDA) 6. British Royal Marine jailed for making bombs for 6. PTF: president Salim Saifullah Irish Republicans 7. The Narendra Modi government is planning on Ciaran Maxwell, a 31-year-old Northern introducing a new ministry for cows Irish Catholic, made and stockpiled pipe BJP-ruled Rajasthan is the first Indian state bombs, anti-personnel mines, handguns to have a minister in charge for the welfare and enough chemicals to make more than of cows 100 kg of explosives Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode to 7. Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prizewinning power in 2014 on a slew of promises, which playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, has died include a national ban on cow slaughter on July 31 2017. He was 73 8. The Pakistani Taliban on Aug 01, 2017 released 8. UK plans to end EU free movement in 2019 the first edition of a magazine for women 9. Punjab has decided to lease a total of 99,077 The first edition of "Sunnat E Khaula" - acres of land in 187 forest lots of various sizes in which translates as 'The Way of Khaula', four districts of South Punjab to the investors referring to an early female follower of the for 15 years for commercial forestry Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) - published by 10. Venezuela increasingly isolated after deadly the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) vote features a picture of a women veiled from head to toe on its front cover 9. China formally opened its first overseas military base on Aug 01, 2017 with a flag raising ceremony in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa To get daily Up-to-date Current Affairs kindly like our facebook page www.facebook.com/CSSTimes or visit www.csstimes.pk - www.ntsguru.pk DAY BY DAY CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQS FOR THE MONTH AUGUST 2017 10. Holy Qur‘aan, Bible removed from Indian 10. Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has scrapped president’s memorial parliament’s power to sack top judges August, 3 2017 August 4, 2017 1. Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa met Afghanistan`s 1. Power consumers to pay security cost of CPEC ambassador Dr Omar Zakhilwal on August 02, projects 2017 for continuing discussions on NEPRA rejects stakeholders' contention that normalisation of bilateral relations security is state's responsibility 2. Uzma Yousaf, First Pakistani woman has reached NEPRA: National Electric Power Regulatory the summit of the Spanitik Peak in the Authority Karakoram Range on August 02, 2017 2. Nawaz cabinet makes a comeback Uzma Yousaf reached the top of the 7,027 Some new inductions, shift of portfolios metre mountain in the Gilgit-Baltistan expected, Nisar keeps out region at 9:16 am 3. Saudi Arabia to open luxury beach resort for The Spanitik Peak is also known as the women `Golden Peak` and was last climbed by a 12- Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammad bin member Pakistan-China Friendship Salman, has unveiled plans for a luxury Red expedition in July 2012 Sea resort where special laws will allow 3. The National Crime Agency (NCA) of Britain will women to wear bikinis instead of covering train investigation of ficers of the National up their skin Accountability Bureau (NAB) 4. Pakistani and Indian officials decided to resume Chairman NAB: Qamar Zaman Chaudhry intra-Kashmir trade from Aug 8 4. The controversial Sri Lanka-China agreement on 5. Foreign reserves decrease by $305m the Hambantota deep water port in southern Sri The total liquid foreign reserves held by the Lanka is likely to go through another revision by country stood at $20,283.1 million on July Aug 8 28, 2017 5. Iraq to issue $1bn standalone bond after a 6. US President Donald Trump said relations with decade Russia had hit an all-time and “very dangerous” 6. China accused India of `concocting` excuses over 7. Iran said that new US sanctions were a violation the illegal entry of the South Asian nation`s of its nuclear deal with world powers, piling military into Chinese territory on their disputed pressure on President Hassan Rouhani as he border starts his second term 7. Scientists in the United States have repaired a 8. US to build pressure on North Korea at Asean disease-causing mutation in the DNA of early- talks stage human embryos 9. China`s Foreign Ministry said India has been 8. US President Donald Trump has signed into law building up troops and repairing roads along its new sanctions against Russia that were passed side of the border amid an increasingly tense overwhelmingly by Congress stand-off in a remote frontier region beside the 9. Turkey changes chiefs of army, navy, air force Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan To get daily Up-to-date Current Affairs kindly like our facebook page www.facebook.com/CSSTimes or visit www.csstimes.pk - www.ntsguru.pk DAY BY DAY CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQS FOR THE MONTH AUGUST 2017 10. Al Qaeda frees South African hostage after six Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony); Lt. Gen (R) years Abdul Qadir Baloch (States and Frontier Stephen McGown, 42, was kidnapped from Regions); Kamran Michael (Statistics) and the historic trading city of Timbuktu in Mali Syed Javed Ali Shah (Water Resources). Likewise, the portfolios of 13 state ministers along with their portfolios are as August 05, 2017 follows. Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhary (Capital 1. Prime Minister Shahid Khagan Abbasi on August Administration and Development Division); 4, 2017 formed a 43-member cabinet with 27 Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari (Commerce federal ministers and 16 ministers of state. and Textile); Muhammad Junaid Anwaar Portfolios of federal, state ministers Chaudhry (Communications); Sardar Muhammad Arshad Khan Laghari Mushahid Ullah Khan (Climate Change); (Industries and Production): Ms. Marriyum Muhammad Pervaiz Malik (Commerce and Aurangzeb (Information and Broadcasting); Textile); Hafiz Abdul Kareem Anusha Rahman Ahmad Khan (Information (Communications); Engr. Khurram Dastgir Technology and Telecommunications); Dr Khan (Defence); Rana Tanveer Hussain Darshan (Inter-Provincial Coordination); (Defence Production); Muhammad Baligh Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju (Overseas Ur Rehman (Federal Education and Pakistanis and Human Resource Professional Training); Muhammad Ishaq Development); Jam Kamal Khan Dar (Finance, Revenue and Economic (Petroleum); Ch. Jaffar Iqbal (Ports and Affairs); Khawaja Muhammad Asif (Foreign Shipping); Pir Muhammad Amin Ul Hasnat Affairs); Akram Khan Durrani (Housing and Shah (Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Works); Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi Harmony), Ghalib Khan (States and Frontier (Industries and Production); Ahsan Iqbal Regions) and Abid Sher Al (Power). (Interior); Riaz Hussain Pirzada (Inter- 2. Border mechanism discussed with Afghan Provincial Coordination); Muhammad military team Barjees Tahir (Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan); Zahid Hamid (Law and Justice); A top military delegation of the Afghan Lt. Gen (R) Salahuddin Tirmizi (Narcotics National Army (ANA) visited the Peshawar Control); Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan Corps Headquarters on August 04, 2017 (National Food Security and Research); Saira 3. A controversial new Venezuelan assembly Afzal Tarar (National Health Services, packed with allies of unpopular President Regulations and Coordination); Pir Syed Nicolas Maduro held its first session on August Sadruddin Shah Rashidi (Overseas 04, 2017 Pakistanis and Human Resource 4. A Chinese expert has admitted that the recent Development); Sheikh Aftab Ahmed political developments in Pakistan would affect (Parliamentary Affairs); Hasil Khan Bizenjo the $50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (Ports and Shipping); Molana Ameer Zaman (CPEC) because some "variable factors" would (Postal Services); Kh Saad Rafique come into play (Railways); Muhammad Yousaf (Religious To get daily Up-to-date Current Affairs kindly like our facebook page www.facebook.com/CSSTimes or visit www.csstimes.pk - www.ntsguru.pk DAY BY DAY CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQS FOR THE MONTH AUGUST 2017 5. S. Korea`s spy agency admits attempting to rig 4. A team of doctors at Noida (India) gave a new election lease of life to a three-year-old Pakistani child 6. Islamabad: Pakistan Post will issue special (Mohammad Bilal) who was suffering from a postage stamp on 70th Independence Day on rare heart disease called Uhl's anomaly that is August 14 found in one among 200,000 children 7. Bashir Ahmed, a BS-21 officer of PSP made 5. Darshan Lal, has become first Hindu politician to Director General Federal Investigation Agency become federal cabinet member in last 20 years 8. The United Kingdom has announced an Darshan Lal was elected in 2013 general additional $130 million to help end polio in elections as Member of National Assembly Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria (MNA) on PML-N ticket reserved for 9.