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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 08 2023) for CSS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 08 2023) for CSS
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January 08, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Cop martyred in Bannu; four `militants` dead in CTD operation

• A police constable was martyred and another suffered gunshot wounds when militants attacked a police patrol in Bannu, while villagers and police repulsed yet another attack on a police post in Lakki Marwat district on the night between Friday and Saturday, officials said.
• Separately, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police claimed to have killed four alleged militants during an intelligence-based operation in Sarband area on the outskirts of Peshawar on Saturday.
• Officials said that a police mobile van came under a gun and bomb attack in Domel area of Bannu. A team of Domel police station was on patrol duty when it spotted two suspected motorcyclists and signalled them to stop

2. TTP `major thorn` in ties between Islamabad, Kabul

• Noting that the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was becoming a major irritant in Islamabad`s relations with the Taliban government in Kabul, a leading think tank has called for reorienting Afghan policy, civilianising National Action Plan (NAP) and counter terrorism regime.
• `Parliament is the centre of collective decision-making, and the parliament must take a lead role in counterterrorism efforts. It must build a clear stance on terrorism, and extremism. The subject must not be an exclusive domain of the security agencies,` the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, an Islamabad-based policy research and advocacy think tank, said in a report released on Saturday.
• The `Pakistan Security Report 2022` noted the TTP, believed to be operating from the neighbouring Afghanistan, remained one of the major actors of violence in Pakistan in the year2022, with the number of terrorist attacks in the country marking an increase of 27 per cent from the previous year

3. Govt to give Rs17.5bn subsidy for buying e-bikes

• The Ministry of Industries and Production has devised a scheme to initially produce 100,000 e-bikes in 18 months to diversify fuel consumption as well as help reduce carbon emissions.
• The scheme was presented in the last cabinet meeting and the prime minister referred it to the Economic Coordination Committee for further deliberation and working on the financial model. The ministry has proposed a subsidy of Rs17.5 billion in three years to encourage the purchase of comparatively costlier bikes.
• As per the plan, the government would bear a down payment of Rs90,000 for an e-bike with an estimated cost of Rs170,000 whereas the purchaser will pay Rs10,000 making the total initial payment to Rs100,000.
• It is suggested that with government guarantees the bank would provide a Rs70,000 loan at Kibor+2 or 19 per cent which is estimated to be Rs13,300

4. Punjab rejects ECP notification on delimitation of union councils

• Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in a meeting on January 7, 2023 with the Punjab Assembly Speaker and provincial ministers comprehensively reviewed the Election Commission of Pakistan`s notification about delimitation of union councils in the province and rejected it `for being lopsided.
• The chief minister said a legal and a constitutional course of action would be adopted to contest the ECP`s notification.
• The meeting was of the view that the ECP`s delimitation notification did not fulfill legal requirements.
• The chief minister said the one sided notification was an attempt to bulldoze public opinion. He said local people and administration were not taken on board with regard to consultations and decisions leading to delimitation of union councils

5. Cabinet approves reversal of autonomy to 18 public colleges

• The Punjab Cabinet has approved withdrawal of the autonomy to 18 public colleges of Punjab, which were declared autonomous under the boards of governors (BoGs) in 2010.
• Twenty-six public sector colleges of the province were granted autonomy when the BS four year programmes were started there. Eight of them were later turned into universities while the remaining 18 have now got the position which they had before the autonomy and their administrative and financial affairs would be run by the Higher Education Department (HED) and not the BoGs.
• The Punjab Cabinet in its 8th meeting held on Dec 29, 2022 approved the reversal of policy

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6. McCarthy takes oath after 14 defeats, intense bargaining

• Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was sworn in on January 7, 2023 as speaker of the House of Representatives in the 118th Congress.
• McCarthy was elected early January 7, 2023 morning after a series of deadlocks and intense bargaining set a new record of 15 rounds of voting in four days. The bargaining gave the 20-member conservative Freedom Caucus the powers to unseat the speaker and paralyse governance if they wished to do so.
• This was the longest speaker contest in 164 years. And it was already past midnight when the Republican candidate finally won the contest with 216 votes against 212 of his Democratic rival Hakeem Jeffries

7. China`s `great migration` starts under shadow of Covid

• China on January 7, 2023 marked the first day of `chun yun`, the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world`s largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of Covid19 infections.
• This Lunar New Year public holiday, which officially runs from Jan 21, will be the first since 2020 without domestic travel restrictions.
• Over the last month China has seen the dramatic dismantling of its `zero Covid` regime following historic protests against a policy that included frequent testing, restricted movement, mass lockdowns and heavy damage to the world`s No.2 economy.
• Investors are hoping that the reopening will eventually reinvigorate a $17-trillion economy suffering its lowest growth in nearly half a century

8. Little let-up in war as Russia, Ukraine mark Orthodox Christmas

• Ukrainians and Russians on January 7, 2023 marked Orthodox Christmas under the shadow of war, as fighting persisted despite Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to pause attacks.
• Despite Putin`s ceasefire order war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine saw no significant let-up in the fighting as AFP journalists in the town of Chasiv Yar south of the frontline city of Bakhmut heard heavy artillery fire throughout much of Saturday morning.
• The Russian defence ministry insisted on Saturday the army was observing the ceasefire but also said that it had repelled the Kyiv forces` attacks in eastern Ukraine and killed dozens of soldiers on Friday.
• Ukrainian authorities said three people were killed on Friday

9. Two Iranians executed for killing security official

• Iran on January 7, 2023 executed two men for killing a paramilitary force member during unprecedented protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman.
• The latest hangings double the number of executions to four over the nationwide protests, which escalated since mid-September into calls for an end to Iran`s regime. Two men were put to death in December, sparking global outrage and new Western sanctions against Iran.
• Judicial news agency Mizan Online reported `Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, the main perpetrators of the crime that led to the martyrdom of Ruhollah Ajamian, were hanged this morning

10. Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye

• A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.
• The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.
• After travelling from the icy reaches of our Solar System it will come closest to the Sun on Jan12 and pass nearest to Earth on Feb 1. It will be easy to spot with a good pair of binoculars and likely even with the naked eye, provided the sky is not too illuminated by city lights or the Moon

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