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Day by Day Current Affairs (April 03, 2020) MCQs for CSS, PMS

April 3, 2020
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Day by Day Current Affairs (April 03, 2020) MCQs for CSS, PMS
Written by Shahzad F. Malik
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April 03, 2020: National / International Current Affairs

1. Sindh announces three-hour complete lockdown for Friday

• With the situation in Pakistan continuously worsening, the government has sought innovative ideas from organisations, experts and individuals to combat the deadly Covid-19 disease.
• As many as 21 organisations, including United Nations agencies, have been involved in analysing suggestions and implementing them as there will be financial implications of enforcing such ideas.
• Meanwhile, the Sindh government has announced that there will be complete lockdown from 12noon to 3pm on Friday, advising people not to come out of their houses for Juma prayers. In a statement issued on Thursday, Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Shah said the `painful` decision about the ban on Friday prayers was taken with a heavy heart. `The mosques, however, will remain open where only three to five persons can perform Juma prayers,` he added.

2. Death penalty in Pearl case nixed after 18 years

• The Sindh High Court (SHC) on April 2, 2020 cited lack of evidence and overturned the death penalty handed down by a trial court to main accused in the abduction and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl; it also set aside life terms given to three co-accused.
• The SHC acquitted all the appellants of the charges of murder and kidnapping for ransom and only found the main accused, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, guilty of abducting the journalist and sentenced him to seven-year imprisonment.
• One of the defence lawyers, Khawaja Naveed, however said British national Sheikh is likely to be set free along with the co-accused in a few days because he has already spent around 18 years in detention. Sindh`s prosecutor general Dr Faiz Shah said an appeal would be filed before the Supreme Court against the high court`s judgement

3. 24-hour curfew imposed in Makkah, Madina

• Saudi Arabia imposed a 24-hour curfew on April 2, 2020 in Makkah and Madina, extending measures to combat coronavirus, while other Arab states locked down districts with large migrant worker populations.
• The Saudi interior ministry stipulated exceptions, including for essential workers and to allow residents to buy food and access medical care. Cars may only carry one passenger.
• Saudi Arabia has recorded 1,885 infections and 21 deaths, the most in the s ix-member Gulf Cooperation Council. It has already halted international flights, suspended Umrah, closed most public places, and heavily restricted internal movement.

4. S. Korean portal suspends `trending topics` feature

• South Korea`s biggest internet portal suspended its real-time `trending topics` feature on April 2, 2020 ahead of a general election this month, after controversy over politicians and their supporters trying to manipulate the results.
• Accusations of misinformation and `fake news` have tainted political processes around the world and the hyper-wired South is known for its technological advances, with virtually every adult citizen owning a smartphone.
• Naver said in a statement it had suspended trends temporarily, the first time it has done so, to `prepare for the possibility of an issue that can affect impartiality`, with the South holding legislative elections on April 15.

5. Chinese city bans consumption of dogs, cats

• The Chinese city of Shenzhen has banned the eating of dogs and cats as part of a wider clampdown on the wildlife trade since the emergence of the new coronavirus.
• Scientists suspect the coronavirus passed to humans from animals. Some of the earliest infections were found in people who had exposure to a wildlife market in the central city of Wuhan, where bats, snakes, civets and other animals were sold.
• The disease has infected more than935,000 people around the world and killed some 47,0000f them. Authorities in the southern Chinese technology hub said the ban on eating dogs and cats would come into force on May 1.

6. U.S. becomes first country with more than 200,000 COVID-19 cases

• The United States became the first nation with more than 200,000 COVID-19 cases on April 1, 2020, according to a new tally from Johns Hopkins University.
• As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 203,608 cases have been reported in the United States, with 4,476 deaths, showed the tally updated by the university’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
• New York state has recorded 83,712 diagnoses and 1,941 deaths, both the highest among U.S. states and territories, read the update. U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will not issue a national stay-at-home order even as coronavirus cases are still surging in the country.

7. Scientists build tiny double particle accelerator that recycles energy

• A team of DESY scientists has built a miniature double particle accelerator that can recycle some of the laser energy fed into the system to boost the energy of the accelerated electrons a second time.
• The device uses narrowband terahertz radiation which lies between infrared and radio frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum, and a single accelerating tube is just 1.5 centimeters long and 0.79 millimeters in diameter.
• Dongfang Zhang and his colleagues from the Center for Free-Electron laser Science (CFEL) at DESY present their experimental accelerator. The miniature size of the device is possible due to the short wavelength of terahertz radiation

8. Google boosts support for checking virus facts

• Google on April 2, 2020 said it is pumping $6.5 million into fact-checkers and non-profits as it ramps up its battle against coronavirus misinformation.
• Fact-checking organisations, which often operate on relatively small budgets, are seeing a surge in demand for their work as mistaken or maliciously false information about the pandemic spreads, according to Alexios Mantzarlis of the Google News Lab.
• “Uncertainty and fear make us all more susceptible to inaccurate information, so we’re supporting fact-checkers as they address heightened demand for their work,” Mantzarlis said

9. Comedian Eddie Large, dies from coronavirus

• Eddie Large, one half of the famous comedy double act Little and Large, has died at the age of 78 after contracting coronavirus in hospital while being treated for heart failure, his family revealed.
• The Glasgow-born comedian, whose real name was Edward Hugh McGinnis, was known for his partnership with Syd Little which spanned five decades after winning Opportunity Knocks in 1971. He had been ill for a while but when it happens, it hits you.

10. Lewis of `DLS method` cricket fame passes away

• Tony Lewis, one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited overs cricket matches, has died aged 78, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on April 2, 2020.
• `It is with much sadness that the ECB has learned of the passing of Tony Lewis MBE, aged 78,` said a statement. `Tony, alongside fellow mathematician Frank Duckworth, devised the Duckworth-Lewis method which was introduced in 1997 and adopted officially by the ICC [International Cricket Council] in 1999.
• `Renamed the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method in 2014, the mathematical formula continues to be used in rain reduced limited overs cricket games across the globe.

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