Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Aug 21 2023) for CSS

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6. Dr Tariq Usman made CEO of TransPeshawar

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker government has assigned Dr Tariq Usman Saeed, a deputy director at the provincial transport and mass transit department, the additional charge of the chief executive officer of the TransPeshawar, the operator of Bus Rapid Transit system in the provincial capital.
A statement issued here said Dr Saeed, currently working as deputy director (technical) at the directorate of transport, has been notified to take additional charge as the CEO of TransPeshawar. It said Dr Saeed, a FulbHght alumnus, held a doctoral degree with dual majors in transportation and infrastructure systems engineering and computational engineering from Purdue University of the United States

7. Schools shut in W. Bank town as Israeli troops hunt for shooting suspect

Schools were shut on Sunday in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara as troops searched for the suspected killer of an Israeli father and his son who were shot dead over the weekend.
The two Israeli men were gunned down on Saturday at a car wash in Huwara, in the latest attack to rock the territory where violence has surged this year.
Israeli media identified the two as Shay Silas Nigrekar, 60, and Aviad Nir, 28

8. Erdogan travels to Hungary for talks on Nato

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest on Sunday, with energy security and Sweden`s membership of Nato on the agenda for both countries.
Hungary has still not voted to approve the Nordic country`s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, having aligned itself with Turkiye which had long blocked Sweden`s membership before lifting its veto last month

9. Zelensky hails `historic` F-16 deal

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday hailed on a visit to the Netherlands a `historic` decision to supply F-16 fighter jets to strengthen Ukraine`s Soviet-era air force.
Zelensky landed at a Dutch air force base in Eindhoven at around midday, a Dutch government spokesperson said, and inspected the aircraft shortly afterwards

10. Russia`s Luna-25 lander crashes into the moon

The Luna-25 probe, Russia`s first moon mission in almost 50 years, has crashed on the moon after an incident during prelanding manoeuvres, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday.
Communication with Luna-25 was lost at 2:57pm (1157 GMT) on Saturday, Roscosmos said. According to preliminary findings, the lander `has ceased to exist following a collision with the moon`s surface`