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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 26, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (April 26, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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April 26, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. PM leaving for Saudi Arabia this week for first foreign visit

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is paying his maiden official visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday with a heavy entourage that included his 16 family members.
• The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) criticised the prime minister for taking with him a big entourage on state expenses.
• However, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb claimed that the prime minister was going on a commercial flight and all members of his entourage would be on their own expenses.
• A list of entourage circulated in the media was confirmed by a source in the Prime Minister Office (PMO)

2. 14 more ministers inducted in AJK cabinet

• Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas on April 25, 2022 inducted 14 more lawmakers in his two-member cabinet, but did not announce their portfolios.
• The ministers were administered oath by President Barrister Sultan Mahmood at a function at the new palatial Prime Minister`s House which remains largely unused ever since its handing over to the government over seven years ago.
• Prime Minister Ilyas and Legislative Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Anwarul Haq were also present on the occasion.
• Shortly after his swearing-in on April 25, 2022 last, Mr Ilyas had appointed Khawaja Farooq Ahmed from Muzaffarabad and Chaudhry Mohammad Akhla1 from Kotli as cabinet members though without any portfolios to fulfil the constitutional definition of the government

3. ADB disburses $1.31bn in loan, grants

• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) disbursed loans and grants amounting to $1.31 billion to Pakistan in 2021, comprising $0.30bn in programme lending, $1.01bn from project lending and $3 million from grants.
• Total outstanding balances and undisbursed commitments of ADB`s non-sovereign transactions in Pakistan as of Dec 31, 2021 was $441.31m, representing 3.14 per cent of ADB`s total private sector portfolio, the fact sheet on Pakistan says.
• According to the ADB annual report released on Monday, ADB committed $22.8bn from its own resources in 2021 to help Asia and the Pacific tackle the immediate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and promote a green recovery

4. Govt to import 200,000 tonnes of urea for kharif

• The new government on April 25, 2022 decided to carry forward the observations of the PTI government and announced to import 200,000 tonnes of urea as buffer stocks before peak kharif demand in June.
• The fertiliser review committee meeting, chaired by Federal Minister for Industries and Production Makhdoom Syed Murtaza Mahmud, decided that the summary of urea import would be forwarded to the Economic Coordination Committee.
• The country has an adequate supply of urea, the meeting was informed.
• Domestic production and demand for fertilisers for the kharif season were discussed at the meeting

5. Religious freedom has worsened in India, says US panel

• Religious freedom has deteriorated `significantly` in India under the Hindu nationalist government, a US commission said on Monday as it again recommended targeted sanctions over abuses.
• It was the third straight year that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom asked that India be placed on a list of `countries of particular concern `a recommendation that has angered New Delhi and is virtually certain to be dismissed by the State Department.
• In an annual report, the panel which is appointed to offer recommendations but does not set US policy voiced wide concern about South Asia and also backed the State Department`s inclusion of Pakistan on the blacklist

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6. No respite for Macron as parliamentary elections loom

• French President Emmanuel Macron enjoyed no respite on April 25, 2022 as, hours after he won re-election by defeating the far right`s Marine Le Pen, political opponents called on voters to deny him a parliamentary majority.
• If he fails to score another victory in the June 12 and 19 parliamentary elections, the pro-European, centrist president will struggle to advance with his pro business agenda, including unpopular plans to push back the retirement age.
• `Voting isn`t over, the legislative elections are the third round,` said Jordan Bardella, a close Le Pen ally, telling voters: `Don`t put all the power in Emmanuel Macron`s hands

7. Iran terms latest talks with S. Arabia `positive`

• Iran said on April 25, 2022 that the latest round of talks with its regional rival Saudi Arabia was `positive and serious` and voiced hope for further progress soon.
• Tehran and Riyadh, which severed diplomatic relations in 2016, held four rounds of talks in Iraq between April and September last year, with a fifth meeting last Thursday.
• `The fifth round of negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Baghdad …
• was positive and serious and saw progress,` foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters

8. UK hosts `world`s first vertiport` for drones, flying taxis

• A pop-up urban port for delivery drones and one day, potentially flying taxis was launched on April 25, 2022 in Britain, lifting a box of prosecco for a brief celebratory test flight hailed as groundbreaking.
• Air-One, a so-called `vertiport` for drones and future electric vehicles taking off and landing vertically, was proclaimed as the first of its kind by proponents and heralding a new era of low-emission futuristic air transport.
• Based in Coventry, a former car manufacturing powerhouse in central England, the site will be used for a month-long showcase of the burgeoning industry.
• The inaugural flight symbolically lifted the six-bottle box of sparkling wine, weighing around 12 kilograms, from the launch pad

9. Musk clinches $44bn deal to buy Twitter

• Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc for $44 billion cash on April 25, 2022 in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world`s richest person.
• It is a seminal moment for the 16-year-old company that emerged as one of the world`s most influential public squares and now faces a string of challenges.
• Discussions over the deal, which last week appeared uncertain, accelerated over the weekend after Musk wooed Twitter shareholders with financing details of his offer.
• Under pressure, Twitter started negotiating with Musk to buy the company at the proposed $54.20 per share price

10. World`s oldest person dies in Japan at 119

• A Japanese woman certified the world`s oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said on April 25, 2022.
• Kane Tanaka was born Jan 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
• Tanaka was in relatively good health until recently and lived at a nursing home, where she enjoyed board games, solving maths problems, soda and chocolate.
• In her younger years, Tanaka ran various businesses including a noodle shop and a rice cake store. She married Hideo Tanaka a century ago in 1922, giving birth to four children and adopting a fifth

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