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October 23, 2019: National Current Affairs
1. Pakistan, India sign Kartarpur Corridor agreement today
• Pakistan and India will sign the agreement on Kartarpur Corridor on October 24, 2019 (today), paving the way for its inauguration next month ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of the founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev.
• The Indian External Affairs Ministry had on October 21, 2019 announced that it was ready to sign the agreement on Oct 23. However, it has now been scheduled for October 24, 2019.
• The signing ceremony will take place at Kartarpur Zero Line.
• The agreement would be made public. `We will share clause by clause details after signing of the agreement,` the spokesman said.
• The agreement was finalised after three rounds of negotiations
2. New Peshawar jail building inaugurated
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan inaugurated the new building of the Peshawar`s Central Prison on October 23, 2019.
• The building put up in five years at a cost of Rs1.5 billion has the capacity to hold 2,356 prisoners.
• A statement issued here revealed that the old jail built in 1854 could accommodate 450 prisoners only.
3. Tehreek-i-Insaf, BAP bag two KP Assembly reserved seats
• The Election Commission of Pakistan on October 23, 2019 notified Aisha Bibi of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Baseerat Khan of the Balochistan Awami Party as MPAs-elect on two seats reserved in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly for women from the merged tribal districts.
• The notification for the purpose was issued in line with Article 106 of the Constitution read with Section 104 of the Elections Act, 2017.
• The name of Aisha Bibi was notified following a legal battle between her and another female candidate of the PTI, Mehreen Rauf Afridi, who had claimed that Ms Aisha was not a registered voter anywhere in tribal districts on the day of the filing of nomination papers, so she was not eligible to contest election for the provincial assembly seats reserved for women.
• Ms Aisha`s nomination papers were accepted by the returning officer but she was later disqualified by an election appellate tribunal on Sept 13.
4. Pakistan`s mission in UK honours pavilion showcasing Manora
• The Pakistan High Commission on October 23, 2019 honoured artwork showcased at the `Pavilion of Pakistan` at the international Venice biennale.
• The show, which opened early in May, features the work of Naiza Khan as curated by Zahra Khan of Foundation Art Divvy.
• The exhibition has been presented by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts and Foundation Art Divvy and ends on Nov 24. It has attracted about 100 visitors daily since it opened, a figure that organisers say boasts of its success.
October 24, 2019: International Current Affairs
5. Thai king fires palace officials
• Thailand`s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has dismissed six palace officials for `extremely evil` conduct, a palace announcement said on October 23, 2019, in a shake-up that come days after the sacking of the king`s royal consort.
• The six included a woman, a senior police official and two royal guards, all of whom worked in the palace.
• Two separate announcements published in the official royal gazette accused the six of severe disciplinary misconduct that caused harm to the royal service, and said they had been Kred and stripped of all their official ranks
6. Google claims quantum leap in computing, rivals say wait a qubit
• Scientists claimed on October 23, 2019 to have achieved a near-mythical state of computing in which a new generation of machine vastly outperforms the world`s fastest super-computer, known as `quantum supremacy`.
• A team of experts working on Google`s Sycamore machine said their quantum system had executed a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken a classic computer 10,000 years to complete.
• A rival team at IBM has already expressed scepticism about their claim.
• But if verified and harnessed, the Google device could make even the world`s most powerful supercomputers capable of performing thousands of trillions of calculations per second -look like an early 2000s flip-phone
7. Beijing to host `intra-Afghan` conference
• China has invited a Taliban delegation to attend an `intra-Afghan` conference in Beijing, a militant spokesman said on October 23, 2019, after a prospective deal between the United States and the insurgents collapsed last month.
• Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban political spokesman, said on Twitter that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group`s co-founder, had met with Chinese diplomats in Doha, where the militants have a political office.
• `Both sides discussed the upcoming intra-Afghan conference in Beijing and issues related to the solution of Afghan problem, Shaheen wrote. He later said the conference would take place October 29-30
8. Trump lifts Turkey sanctions, says Kurds `thankful`
• President Donald Trump on October 23, 2019 announced the lifting of US sanctions against Turkey and defended his abrupt pullout from Syria, saying `let someone else fight` over the `blood-stained` country.
• In a White House speech that formalised ceding of US and Kurdish control in northern Syria to Turkey and Russia, Trump insisted that Kurdish guerrillas who had fought alongside US troops were happy.
• The president, whose Syria policy has come under withering criticism from his own Republican party, said he`d just spoken with the Kurdish commander in the country, Mazloum Abdi, and he was `extremely thankful.
9. Sixth-century Byzantine era church uncovered in Israel
• The remains of a sixth century Byzantine church dedicated to an unnamed `glorious martyr` with elaborate mosaics, a rare crypt and a large collection of lamps were unveiled in central Israel on October 23, 2019.
• The complex, which spans over a third of an acre, was found during salvage excavations ahead of the construction of a new neighbourhood for the city Bet Shemesh, west of Jerusalem.
• The mosaics in the church depict themes from nature, such as leaves, birds and fruit, as well as geometrical elements, with imported capitals topping pillars, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavation
October 24, 2019: Sports Current Affairs
10. Sourav Ganguly elected president of BCCI
• Former captain Sourav Ganguly on October 23, 2019 vowed to clean up Indian cricket as he was elected president of the sport`s rich and powerful but troubled national board.
• Cricket`s massive popularity in India has made the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by far the wealthiest of all the national boards, netting massive sums from sponsorship and TV deals.
• But it has also been embroiled in a series of scandals, including accusations of corruption and match-fixing that tarnished the Indian Premier League (IPL) the country`s lucrative Twenty20 extravaganza.
• The appointment of the 47-year-old Ganguly for an initial 10 months only at a meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday ends more than two years of a committee appointed by India`s top court overseeing the board`s affairs
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