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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 07 2023) for CSS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 07 2023) for CSS
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January 07, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. PM seeks support from all provinces to fight terror

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on January 6, 2023 sought the cooperation of provinces to eliminate terrorism that has reemerged in the country, and asked for support from the business community to make the National Energy Conservation Plan (NE CP) a success.
• Presiding over a meeting on security, the PM emphasised the need for enhancing coordination among the federal and provincial institutions to wipe out terrorism from the country.
• `Terrorists and militants will never be able to shake the nation`s resolve. No sacrifice will be avoided for the security of the homeland,` he maintained, and directed the interior minister, interior secretary and national coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) to hold consultations with the provinces and submit a report

2. Punjab plans Rs60,000 monthly ration package for families with two kids

• Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said his government has planned an initiative to give Rs60,000 monthly ration package to the families having two or less children to encourage family planning by involving the World Bank.
• Addressing the students as a chief guest at the 7th convocation of the University of Gujrat (UoG) here on Friday, Mr Elahi said the package to be introduced under the Ehsas Programme to revive the family planning sector that remained neglected in the past.
• He said Shehbaz government had brought a `tsunami of inflation and price hike` in the country that has badly exposed Mr Sharif, alleging the PML-N leadership would come to the country and took dollars abroad.
• He says the nation under the able leadership of Imran Khan is heading towards the goal of prosperity and progress as `Mr Khan is not scared of anybody, nor he could bow to any one`

3. ILO says flexible timings better for work-life balance

• A new report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has suggested that reduced working hours and more flexible working time arrangements, such as those used during the Covid-19 crisis, can benefit economies, enterprises and workers.
• It would also lay the ground for a better and more healthy work life balance, says the report, `Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World` released on Friday.
• Working-time laws and regulations on maximum daily hours of work and statutory rest periods are achievements that contribute to the long-term health and wellbeing of a society and must not be put at risk, the report recommends

4. Directions issued to de-silt Rawal Dam for enhancing water storage

• Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Chairman Tariq Mehmood Khan has issued directions to devise a plan for de-silting Rawal Lake and enhance its storage capacity from 28,000 cubic feet to 43,000 cubic feet by next week.
• He gave this direction to the technical team of Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and Small Dams Organisation (SDO) during its meeting held in his office. The meeting was attended by Wasa Managing Director Mohammad Tanveer, SDO Project Director Mehar Manzoor, Wasa Director (Supply) Mohammad Tauseef, Deputy Director (Planning) Azizullah and SDO Assistant Director Arslan Abbas.
• The team informed the RDA chairman that the water storage capacity of Rawal Lake had reduced due to silt and waste coming from drains and nullahs discharged in the Rawal Lake and there was a dire need for de-silting the lake to enhance storage capacity

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5. Russian hackers `targeted US N-scientists`

• A Russian hacking team, known as Cold River, targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, five cyber security experts allege.
• Between August and September, as President Vladimir Putin indicated Russia would be willing to use nuclear weapons to defend its territory, Cold River targeted the Brookhaven (BNL), Argonne (ANL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL), according to internet records that showed the hackers creating fake login pages for each institution and emailing nuclear scientists in a bid to make them reveal their passwords.
• A BNL spokesperson declined to comment. LLNL did not respond to a request for comment. An ANL spokesperson referred questions to the US Department of Energy, which declined to comment

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6. No respite for Ukraine`s east despite Putin`s truce

• Artillery exchanges pounded war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine on January 6, 2023 despite Russian leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to stop attacking for 36 hours.
• The brief ceasefire declared by Putin earlier this week was supposed to begin at 0900 GMT on Friday and would have been the first full pause since Moscow`s invasion in February.
• But witnesses heard both outgoing and incoming shelling in the frontline city of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, after the time when the Russian ceasefire was supposed to have begun.
• Moscow`s forces also struck Ukraine`s second-largest city Kramatorsk in the east, the deputy head of Ukraine`s presidential administration said

7. Iran foils cyber attack on central bank

• Iran has foiled a cyber attack on its central bank, the country`s telecommunications infrastructure company said on January 6, 2023.
• Anonymous and other global hacking groups threatened in October to launch cyber attacks on Iranian institutions and officials in support of anti-government protests and to bypass internet censorship there.
• Amir Mohammadzadeh Lajevardi, head of the Infrastructure Communications Company, said the central bank was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Thursday night, the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. DDoS attacks attempt to cripple servers by overwhelming them with internet traffic.
• `These days, the largest volume of foreign attacks is against banks and financial institutions, internet providers and communications infrastructures, which have been repelled,` Lajevardi said

8. International fusion energy project faces delays

• An international project in nuclear fusion may face `years` of delays, its boss said on Friday, weeks after scientists in the United States announced a breakthrough in their own quest for the coveted goal.
• The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project seeks to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy. Installed at a site in southern France, the decades-old initiative has a long history of technical challenges and cost overruns.
• Fusion entails forcing together the nuclei of light atomic elements in a super-heated plasma, held by powerful magnetic forces in a doughnut-shaped chamber, called a tokamak

9. Israel, Palestine trade heated barbs at UN over Al-Aqsa visit

• Israeli and Palestinian envoys to the United Nations have traded heated barbs at a Security Council meeting over the controversial visit by an Israeli minister to Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
• Israel`s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called the session `pathetic` and `absurd` while the Palestinian envoy accused the Jewish state of acting `with absolute contempt.
• The 15-member Security Council discussed the visit, which has enraged Palestinians, at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday following a request by the United Arab Emirates and China

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10. Tailenders hang on after Sarfraz`s fighting ton as Pakistan earn share of spoils with NZ

• In an incredibly tense finale, in the dying light, tailenders Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed staged Pakistan`s last act of defiance. New Zealand were looking to grab the final wicket to win this second and final Test and the clinch the series. They pleaded with the umpires to let play go on for as long as possible and bowled 21 deliveries to Pakistan`s last pair in desperate hope of getting that wicket.
• Every block by the duo was being cheered on after Sarfraz Ahmed`s dismissal for a magnificent 118 had brought them together at the crease. Amid nerve-shredding drama, Naseem even got a six and a four while Abrar fetched a boundary as Pakistan finished at 304-9 in their fourth innings to grab a draw after New Zealand had set the hosts a target of 319.
• The credit for Pakistan pulling off a draw, though, was largely due to Sarfraz`s anchoring knock

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