Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (February 16, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (February 16, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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February 16, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Ravi `most polluted river` in the world

• Not just the air but also the river flowing through Punjab`s capital has been found to be the world`s most polluted, with active pharmaceutical ingredients posing a `threat to environment and human health`.
• A study on pharmaceutical pollution of the world`s rivers conducted at the University of York and published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US detected pharmaceutical particles including paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs in the river.
• It placed waterways in Lahore, Bolivia and Ethiopia among the most polluted while rivers in Iceland, Norway and the Amazon rainforest fared the best

2. Federal cabinet approves Cloud First Policy, Personal Data Protection Bill

• The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the Cloud First Policy and the Personal Data Protection Bill, noting that the decision was crucial to move the country further into the digital world.
• The Cloud First Policy has listed five classes for data, including open data in the public sector to make the government open and accountable and increase citizens` participation in government`s affairs.
• The other one is public data related to the public sector that is non-confidential and is publicly available.
• It is followed by restricted data related to public sector business, operations and services, which is not sensitive in nature, while the confidential data is the information not intended to be published, but it can be accessed only by certain people having proper authorisation to do that

3. Rs5 billion digital skills development programme gets KP cabinet`s nod

• The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet on February 15, 2022 approved Rs5 billion digital skills development programme for 100,000 youth.
• The cabinet met here with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair and ministers and administrative secretaries in attendance.
• Spokesman for the government Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif told reporters that the digital skills training would last three to six months and would help generate employment for skilled youth

4. PM launches second phase of Raast

• Prime Minister Imran Khan on February 15, 2022 launched the State Bank of Pakistan`s Free Raast Person-to-Person (P2P) Instant Payments System at a ceremony in Islamabad.
• A press release issued by the SBP said that Raast, a flagship initiative of the SBP, is a payment system platform that enables various types of transactions among different stakeholders such as organisations, businesses and persons.
• `The objective of this initiative is to promote digitisation and financial inclusion in the country. In the first phase of Raast, launched in January 2021, transactions from organisations to persons, generally referred to as Bulk Payments, were enabled. The second phase is designed to facilitate Person-to Person (P2P) transactions under Raast,` the press release said

5. Pakistan asks UNSC to help stop attacks from Afghanistan

• Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to hold accountable the `masterminds` who continue to support, finance, and sponsor cross-border terrorist attacks into its territory.
• Pakistan raised the issue of cross-border terrorism from Afghanistan after India used the UN forum on Monday to accuse Pakistan of sponsoring terrorism in occupied Kashmir. The Indian initiative turned the annual meeting of the UN Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC) in New York into a battle of words between South Asia`s two nuclear powers. This was the committee`s first briefing since January when India assumed its chair.
• Last week, Pakistani security forces repulsed two attacks at their camps in Balochistan. At least13 terrorists were killed in the fight while seven soldiers and an officer embraced martyrdom

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6. World Bank warns against ignoring growing debt

• Delays in dealing with the growing debt burden in poor countries seems unlikely to be resolved by the G20, a top World Bank official warned.
• As interest rates are starting to rise around the world, putting more pressure on borrowers, the Group of 20 finance ministers are due to meet in Indonesia this week.
• But World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart is skeptical there will be a resolution soon to help address unsustainable debts.
• `The stalling is really, really problematic,` she told AFP in an interview

7. Israeli president plans rare visit to Turkey

• Israeli President Isaac Herzog is preparing to visit Turkey, his office said on February 15, 2022, in a rare trip that marks the latest sign of a thaw following years of frayed ties.
• A statement from Herzog`s office said that a high-ranking Turkish delegation was due in Israel this week, including a top aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ibrahim Kalin, and deputy foreign minister Sedat Onal.
• The Turkish delegation`s visit was `part of preparations for the planned visit of President Isaac Herzog` to Turkey, the Israeli presidency said. In a television interview last month, Erdogan said he expected Herzog to visit, hailing the trip as an opportunity to `open a new chapter in relations between Turkey and Israel`

8. Pollution causing more deaths than Covid: UN

• Pollution by states and companies is contributing to more deaths globally than Covid-19, a UN environmental report published on February 15, 2022 said, calling for `immediate and ambitious action` to ban some toxic chemicals.
• The report said pollution from pesticides, plastics and electronic waste is causing widespread human rights violations and at least 9 million premature deaths a year, and that the issue is largely being overlooked.
• The coronavirus pandemic has caused close to 5.9 million deaths, according to data aggregator Worldometer

9. UK to host Afghan fundraising summit

• Britain said on February 15, 2022 it would co-host a virtual UN summit aimed at raising billions to avert a `devastating` humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power.
• With the fundamentalist regime now denied access to Western funds, the United Nations says more than 24 million Afghans need urgent help to survive, and half the population is f acing acute hunger.
• The UN said last month that$4.4billionwasneeded, as it launched its largest appeal yet for a single country

10. Russia says pulling back troops, West seeks proof

• Russia said on February 15, 2022 some of its troops were returning to base after exercises near Ukraine and mocked Western warnings about a looming invasion, but Nato said it had yet to see any evidence of a de-escalation that could avert a military conflict.
• Moscow did not say how many units were being withdrawn, and how far, after a buildup of some 130,000 Russian troops to the north, east and south of Ukraine that has triggered one of the worst crises in relations with the West since the Cold War.
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said after meeting President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin that the withdrawal of some Russian troops was a good sign

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