Current Affairs

Option: A
Explanation :To foster a culture of world-class higher education in Pakistan and to keep up with the modern trends in technology, Comsats University Islamabad has launched a Rs 1 billion project on Artificial Intelligence. The project is likely to begin next year and the authorities have already started purchasing the equipment.
The project will be run by a consortium of 6 universities including Punjab University (PU), NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi, University of Engineering Technology (UET) Peshawar and Lahore, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Comsats University Islamabad.
Last year, the government had allocated over Rs 1 billion for the promotion of AI with the help of these 6 universities.

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Option: A
Explanation :Mr. Yasir Humayun belongs to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, he is the current Minister for Higher Education in Punjab. He held this post on 28th August 2018. He becomes also a Minister of punjab for Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) on 22nd July 2019.

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Option: B
Explanation :The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major but ultimately unsuccessful uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company. Which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company’s army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 miles northeast of Delhi (now Old Delhi).

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Option: B
Explanation :The Prime Minister met with the visiting President of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, at the Prime Minister’s office. At the meeting, the Prime Minister announced the establishment of the National Accelerator on Closing the Skills Gap in Pakistan, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, with Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) serving as its national secretariat.

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Option: D
Explanation :To cater to the basic health needs of a large number of tourists, a basic health unit is being installed at Babusar top in Naran valley following orders from the KPK Provincial Minister for Health, Hisham Inamullah Khan.

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Option: D
Explanation :Celebrating World Ocean Day, Nestlé Pakistan launched its global employee volunteer program ‘Nestlé Cares’ with a beach cleaning drive at Sea View Beach, Karachi.
Employees of Nestlé Pakistan have taken upon themselves to do their bit for a waste-free future. Over 100 volunteers, including employees of Nestlé Pakistan, representatives from National Forum for Environment & Health (NFEH) and Consumer Association of Pakistan (CAP) and participants from the Civil society joined hands as responsible citizens of the world to clear the bay and beyond.

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Option: C
Explanation :The US government will now issue licenses to companies that want to do business with Huawei, as long as there is no threat to national security. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced this.
We’re still unsure which American products fall into this category, or whether Huawei can resume working with Google as before. Ross also said that Huawei will remain on the banned Entity List, and the government can still deny a license request if need be. He further added that the new licensees will have to comply with the previously issued component availability requirements. He restated that the department will only issue licenses after evaluating the potential of national security risks involved.

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Option: A
Explanation :To protect vegetation and forests in Pakistan, the government has announced that July 20 will be celebrated as the national “Plant for Pakistan” day. Adviser to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam made this announcement on Wednesday-10-July-2019 while chairing the 4th meeting of the Federal Forestry Board.He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate the initiative by planting a sapling.
The advisor to PM said that the ’10 Billion Tree Tsunami’ is a national project, and all the provinces equally are involved. Malik Amin Aslam advised that the provinces should revise their targets and devise new plans to achieve them before 14th August. The provinces have been advised to submit their PC-1’s and progress on the ground by next week.

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Option: C
Explanation :Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar on Saturday-06-July-2019 said 80,000 interest-free loans would be given countrywide to the needy every month under National Poverty Graduation Strategy programme to enable them to start their own businesses.
Dr.Sania said Rs 42.65 billion has been allocated for the National Poverty Graduation Strategy program however, 16.2 million people would get benefit from it and 80,000 people would be provided interest-free loans every month, she added. She said the programme would consist of three components, including interest-free loans, skill training and transfer of small assets such as sewing machines, livestock and agricultural equipment to bring the marginalised sector into the mainstream.

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Option: B
Explanation : The federal government on Saturday-06-July-2019 handed three public sector hospitals back to the Sindh government months after it was ordered to take control of the hospitals by the Supreme Court in January this year. The Sindh government had approached the Supreme Court with a claim that since the subject of health had been devolved to provinces under the 18th Amendment, the management of the hospitals namely the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College (JPMC), National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (NICVD) and National Institute of Child Health (NICH) should rest with it.
However, the court had rejected the provincial government’s plea, saying the SC couldn’t leave “poor at the mercy of the provincial governments”. The Centre had taken control of the port city’s three major hospitals in May following the verdict.

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