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Agony aunt
An agony aunt is a newspaper columnist who gives advice to people having problems, especially personal ones.
All in a day’s work
If something is all in a day’s work, it is nothing special.
Bad workers always blame their tools
“A bad worker always blames their tools” – If somebody does a job badly or loses in a game and claims that they were let down by their equipment, you can use this to imply that this was not the case.
Baker’s dozen
A Baker’s dozen is 13 rather than 12.
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• Prices of seasonal essential goods continued to rise as inflation clocked in at 11 per cent in October 2019 from a year ago, reported the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on November 6, 2019.
• Inflation, measured through the Consumer Price Index (CPI), edged up by 1.8pc over the previous month after the PBS revised its calculation methodology by setting the new base year 2015-16 instead of the previous 2007-08 financial year.
• The change in base year means the economy`s price levels in FY16 will now be the base against which all existing prices will be calculated for the CPI.
• Based on the new base year, October inflation came in at 11.04pc, versus 11.4pc in the previous month.
• Top world powers – the United States, China and Russia – have hoped that the Kartarpur corridor between Pakistan and India will help ease the Pak-India tension that has endangered the regional peace.
• The US, China and Russia had supported Pakistan’s gesture to open the Kartarpur corridor for the Sikh community.
• “They all believe it will help defuse the (Pak-India) tension and gradually revive the dialogue process,” said one official, citing the regular government-level contacts.
• Three powers had urged Pakistan to persist with the positivity to move forward. “They have acknowledged our efforts so far to maintain peace (in the region). Apart from these powers, we have received messages from around the world. They (the whole world) have supported our struggle for peace
• The World Bank will assist the Balochistan government in launching a livelihood and entrepreneurship project aimed to create employment opportunities for rural communities and achieve sustainability of enterprises in eight districts, including the five affected by the prolonged presence of Afghan refugees.
• Rates of poverty in the eight districts of northern Balochistan namely, Zhob, Chagai, Nushki, Sherani, Killa Saifullah, Killa Abdullah, Pishin and Mastung are high since long and the presence there of refugees for about 40 years, has put an unsustainable strain on resources of the province.
• A World Bank report says that the $50 million project expected to be approved next month by the bank`s executive board, includes grant assistance worth $35m from the International Development Association (IDA) and another of $15m from MDTF, the World Bank-administered trust fund for crisis-hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan
• Three Pakistani writers, Bapsi Sidhwa, Kamila Shamsie and Mohsin Hamid, have been included in BBC`s list of 100 novels that shaped the world.
• Sidhwa`s Ice Candy Man, Hamid`s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist are featured in the `Crime & Conflict` category while Shamsie`s Home Fire is included in the `Politics, Power & Protest` category.
• The works have been organised into themed categories, such as identity, adventure and love, sex and romance.
• Modern works such as Bridget Jones`s Diary and His Dark Materials made the cut along with classics like Pride & Prejudice and Middlemarch
• UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced on Wednesday that Pakistani actress Mahira Khan has been appointed a UNHCR national goodwill ambassador.
• Ms Khan had been supporting UNHCR activities for a few years and spoke about Afghan refugees in Pakistan prior to this appointment.
• At the appointment ceremony in Islamabad on Wednesday, Ms Khan said: `I feel privileged to have been chosen to serve this noble cause.
• UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Operations George Okoth-Obbo, Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions Shehryar Khan Afridi, UNHCR Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Indrika Ratwatte, UNHCR Representative in Pakistan Ruvendrini Menikdiwela and other guests attended the ceremony
• Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron declared on November 6, 2019 that the Paris climate pact was `irreversible` showing a united front after Washington formally withdrew from the accord this week.
• The joint declaration came at the end of Macron`s second visit to China, which started on Monday in Shanghai and included talks on trade and the Iranian nuclear issue.
• The French leader also said he told Xi there was a need for dialogue to resolve months of unrest in Hong Kong ignoring Beijing`s prior warning that such sensitive topics should not be on the agenda. But Xi and Macron found common ground on climate change.
• Major powers expressed regret and concern after President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout from the Paris accord despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change
• Extinction Rebellion climate change activists won a legal challenge in London`s High Court on November 6, 2019 against a police-imposed blanket ban on protests during its `Autumn Uprising` in the British capital in October.
• The court said separate gatherings, even if coordinated by one organisation, could not be defined as a single `public assembly` and the officer who set the ban was not present at the scene.
• Therefore barring any Extinction Rebellion protest in London other than at Trafalgar Square was unlawful and would be quashed, it said.
• Extinction Rebellion blocked roads, targeted financial institutions, sprayed paint on the government`s Treasury and disrupted transpon during two weeks of direct action.
• US Democrats claimed an upset win in Kentucky on November 5, 2019 over a Republican governor backed by President Donald Trump and seized control of the state legislature in Virginia, where anti-Trump sentiment in the suburbs remained a potent force.
• The outcomes of elections in four states, including Mississippi and New Jersey, could offer clues to how next year`s presidential election could unfold, when Trump will aim for a second four-year term.
• In Kentucky, Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear, whose father, Steve, was the state`s last Democratic governor, scored a narrow victory over Governor Matt Bevin despite an election-eve rally headlined by Trump.
• Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said November 6, 2019.
• Erdogan made the announcement while delivering a speech in the capital of Ankara but gave no other details. He did not say when or how the woman was captured or identify her by name.
• Al-Baghdadi was known to have four wives. One of his aides has said he the shadowy IS leader had four wives, the maximum number he can have at one time under Islamic law.
• “We caught his wife, but we didn’t make a fuss about it. I am announcing this today for the first time,” Erdogan said, while criticizing the United States for leading a “communications campaign” about Baghdadi’s slaying
• US-Facebook says it has discovered a new privacy flaw on its platform that lets some app developers access data in Groups that they should not have. The social network restricted how much information app developers could gather from Groups, following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
• But it said about 100 developers had retained access to Group data, such as people’s names and photos.
• Facebook did not say how many members had been affected by the flaw.
• Like other social networks, Facebook provides an application programming interface (API) that lets app developers connect their own creations to Facebook.
• But in 2018, it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of millions of people by creating a personality quiz on Facebook – and used the data to target political advertising.
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Insert the missing number
5. 8. 12. 17. 23. 38
(a) 29
(b) 30
(c) 32
(d) 25
Answer: (b)
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4. 9. 20. 43. 90. —
(a) 185
(b) 172
(c) 179
(d) 165
Answer: (a)
Insert the missing number
1.1.4. 8. 9. 27. 16.
(a) 25
(b) 36
(c) 125
(d) 64
Answer: (d)
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• The federal cabinet on November 5, 2019 approved an ambitious national Electric Vehicles (EV) policy under which a target has been set to convert 30 per cent of four and tri-wheelers in the country into electric vehicles.
• The cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, also endorsed his decision on visa and passport-free entry of Sikh pilgrims into Pakistan from India through Kartarpur corridor on the occasion of 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion, on Nov 9.
• To solve people`s problems and take measures to control price hike in the country, Mr Khan gavea three-month deadline to the ministries concerned
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• Prime Minister Imran Khan has revealed that Pakistan and Turkey have resolved the dispute involving Karkey a Turkish ship-mounted power plant saving the former from$1.2bnpenaltyimposed on it by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
• In a message on Twitter, PM Khan said the dispute was resolved with the help of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• `PTI government with the help of President Erdogan, has amicably resolved the Karkey dispute and saved Pakistan from $1.2 billion penalty imposed by the ICSID,` read the tweet.
• In another such message, Mr Khan said: `I want to congratulate the government team for doing an excellent job in achieving this.
• It has been learnt that $1.2 billion was the total amount of penalty against Pakistan, but after the waiver Pakistan has to pay nothing in the case
• Prime Minister Imran Khan said on November 4, 2019 that the `Ehsaas Undergraduate Scholarship` programme would drive the country`s poor and talented youth to achieve excellence.
• The prime minister lauded the efforts of his special assistant and Ehsaas programme chairperson Dr Sania Nishtar for introducing the initiative, under which a total of 200,000 scholarships (50,000 per year) are to be awarded to needy students over the next four years. He elaborated that due to unemployment, the talented and intelligent youth of the country were developing intolerance and a tendency toward negative practices; however, this scholarship programme would help deserving students divert their energies toward positivity.
• Pakistan and the visiting staff mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on November 4, 2019 started policy level talks for disbursement of second tranche of about $453 million early next month under the $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (E FF) finalise d in May this year.
• A senior government official told Dawn that Secretary Finance Naveed Kamran Baloch and Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Dr Reza Baqir began the policy discussions with the fund led by its Mission Chief to Pakistan Ernesto Ramirez-Rigo. Prime Minister`s Adviser on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh is expected to join the negotiations on Wednesday (November 6) for the concluding round, he added.
• Sources said the venue of the negotiations was moved out of the Ministry of Finance to a local hotel where the members of mission were staying due to a precautionary advisory to the staff mission. Both sides were unable to meet the media, saying the press would be contacted at the conclusion of the talks.
• Industrial and Economics Zones would be established in Gilgit-Baltistan under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project to uplift the area and bring it at par with developed parts of the country. Due to tax exemptions, the zones would be more beneficial for the whole country especially locals.
• Work on the Babusar top tunnel would be started during next financial year, adding the federal government was determined to remove the 72 years deprivation of the local people.
• Despite financial crunch, the Gilgit Baltistan had been provided development funds. Commenting on new water reservoirs, he expressed the hope that Diamer-Bhasha Dam would bring prosperity in the area. Besides, the government has allocated Rs 400 million for construction of 250-bed hospital in Skardu to provide best health facilities to local people. 50-bed cardiac hospital Phase-I was under construction at Gilgit Baltistan with the cost of Rs1.5 billion. While, Rs 300 million have been allocated in the current Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for completion of the cardiac hospital.
• The Punjab government has lifted ban on the supply of flour to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
• A decision to the effect was taken by Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at a meeting, attended by food ministers and secretaries of both provinces, on November 4, 2019. Mr Buzdar said that Punjab would fulfill flour needs of the KP and that the decision to restore the flour supply has been as a goodwill gesture for the people of the KP province.
• The flour supply to the KP would regularly be monitored and chief minister also ordered the establishment of a joint committee of the two provinces to monitor the steps taken.
• US rocket was launched on Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, carrying cargo with the space agency’s resupply mission for the International Space Station (ISS).
• The Antares rocket built by Northrop Grumman lifted off at 9:59 a.m. EDT, carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS.
• The spacecraft successfully separated from the rocket about nine minutes after the blastoff, flying on its way to the space station, according to NASA’s live broadcast. The spacecraft is expected to dock with the space station early Monday morning, according to NASA.
• The spacecraft carried about 8,200 pounds (3,719 kg) of supplies and scientific experiments to the station.
• Plans for the UK’s first deep coal mine in decades will go ahead after the government decided not to intervene.
• West Cumbria Mining said the new mine – near the site of the former Haig Colliery in Whitehaven which shut in 1986 – would create 500 jobs.
• Cumbria county councillors gave it the go-ahead in March, but this sparked a number of objections, including a call for government scrutiny.
• The Woodhouse Colliery would extract coking coal from the seabed off St Bees, with a processing plant on the former Marchon site at Kells.
• Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to help in searches for missing and vulnerable people.
• The remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) can see things we can’t to try to work out where people are.
• It uses advanced cameras and neural computer networks to spot someone it is looking for – from “a speck” up to 150 metres away.
• Its recognition software is compact enough to be run on a phone, with the technology learning as it goes.
• Boeing`s Starliner crew capsule successfully performed an emergency abort test on November 4, 2019, meeting a key requirement before it can take US astronauts to the International Space Station as early as next year.
• The test took place in the New Mexico desert at the White Sands Missile Range and lasted around 95 seconds.
• The Starliner was set on a small launch pad with four engines to simulate an emergency in which the capsule attached to the top of a rocket would need to quickly separate to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth.
• Its four engines ignited and blasted the Starliner at full speed to the sky. After 20 seconds its parachutes deployed and the spacecraft gently drifted to the ground, landing on the desert floor cushioned by large air bags.
• World number one Novak Djokovic saw off Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4 to win a record-extending fifth Paris Masters title on Sunday in a warning to his rivals ahead of the ATP Finals.
• The Serbian f aced only one break point in another impressive display to claim a 34th career Masters title against world number 28 Shapovalov, who was playing his first final at that level.
• `It was his first Masters final so in a way experience prevailed. But I played very solidly today. Maybe he lost his focus a bit.
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A series of instructions that tells a computer what to do and how to do it is called a–
(a) Program
(b) Command
(c) User response
(d) Processor
(e) None of these
Answer: (a)
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• Pakistan on November 3, 2019 rejected as incorrect and legally untenable the political maps of India issued by the country`s home ministry displaying the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region and seeking to depict parts of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir within the territorial jurisdiction of India.
• According to a Foreign Office statement, the maps issued by the Indian home ministry on Nov 2 were incorrect, legally untenable, void and in complete violation of the relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions.
• Pakistan rejects these political maps, which are incompatible with the United Nations maps, the Foreign Office spokesman said.
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