Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (February 11, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. Denmark ready to allow US troops on its soil

• Nato member Denmark said on February 10, 2022 it was ready to allow US military troops on its soil as part of a new bilateral defence agreement with the US, amid rising tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine.
• The Scandinavian country has become one of Washington`s closest European allies in the past two decades, having fought alongside the US in Iraq.
• `The United States has reached out to Denmark, proposing a bilateral defence cooperation,` Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told reporters.

7. Russia begins drills in Belarus, draws ominous warning from Nato

• Russia rolled its tanks across Belarus on February 10, 2022 for live-fire drills that drew an ominous warning from Nato and added urgency to Western efforts to avert a feared invasion of Ukraine.
• Nato said Russia`s deployment of missiles, heavy armour and machine-gun toting soldiers marked a `dangerous moment` for Europe some three decades after the Soviet Union`s collapse.
• The war games set to run until February 20 followed a gradual Russian military buildup around Ukraine that some US estimates say has reached 130,000 soldiers grouped in dozens of combat brigades

8. No religious clothing until hijab row is settled, says Indian court

• A court in a southern Indian state told students on February 10, 2022 not to wear any religious clothing until it delivers a verdict on petitions seeking to overturn a ban on hijabs, headscarves used by Muslim women.
• The court in Karnataka state is considering petitions filed by students challenging a ban on hijabs that some schools have implemented in recent weeks.
• `We will pass an order. But till the matter is resolved, no student should insist on wearing religious dress,` the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi as saying.
• The court also directed the state to reopen schools and colleges which the chief minister had shut for three days as protests over the ban escalated earlier this week

9. Pakistan Super League Sultans` juggernaut rolls on as Zalmi put to the sword

• Needing a victory to reignite their faltering campaign, Peshawar Zalmi were never in the chase.
• Multan Sultans` Zimbabwean pacer Blessing Muzarabani had them on the ropes by the end of the second over, sending back both openers in the space of five deliveries in their HBL Pakistan Super League match at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday.
• The target of 183 at that point looked a mountain to scale. The scale of their task got even bigger when star batter Liam Livingstone wassen trudging back by Abbas Afridi on the final ball of the powerplay, leaving Zalmi at a deflating 42-3.
• In the end, they were bundied out for 140.

10. Virologist who discovered HIV virus dies

• French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, has died.
• Montagnier, who was 89, shared half of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine with fellow French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi for their role in discovering the virus. The other half was awarded to German cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen.
• Montagnier, who sparked controversy in 2020 by saying that he believed the coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab, was born in 1932 in France and gained a Ph.D. in virology at the University of Paris.
• Helater became Director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention in Paris