Site icon CSS Times

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 09 2023) for CSS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 09 2023) for CSS
WELCOME TO CSS TIMES DAY BY  DAY CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQs, YOUR BEST SOURCE FOR UP-TO-DATE AND DAILY TOP CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQs 2022 FOR PREPARATION OF CSS, PMS, BANKING, NTS, RAILWAYS AND ALL COMPETITIVE EXAMS.  “DAY TO DAY CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQs” BASICALLY IS TOP 10 NEWS SUMMARY ON CURRENT HAPPENINGS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE FOR ALL EXAMINATIONS

January 09, 2022: National Current Affairs MCQs

1. Geneva moot to focus on flood damage today

• As Pakistan still reels from the impact of disastrous floods which submerged more than one-third of the country, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Geneva to co-host the `International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan` alongside UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on January 8, 2023 (today).
• The purpose of the moot to be attended by heads of state and government and other stakeholders is to marshal international support to rehabilitate the population affected by super floods and reconstruct damaged infrastructure in a climate-resilient manner.
• The day-long conference will have two-fold objectives, during which the `Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Framework` (4RF) will be launched. The framework comprises institutional, financial and implementation arrangements for the post-flood recovery, besides international support to forge long-term partnerships to achieve climate resilience

2. Balochistan sends SOS as it runs out of wheat

• Despite an SOS sent by the Balochistan government a day earlier, no consignment of wheat reached the province on January 8, 2023.
• At a press conference on Saturday night, Food Minister Zamarak Khan Piralizal had said that the food department had run out of its wheat stock and called for help from other provinces and the Centre.
• `We are facing a very serious crisis and need 600,000 bags of wheat on an emergency basis,` he said as he sent an SOS to the federal and provincial governments of Punjab and Sindh.
• The minister, who was addressing the media after his return from Islamabad, was accompanied by Flour Mills Association president Badaruddin Kakar. He said Balochistan needed immediate wheat supply to deal with the worsening situation

3. Panel reconstituted to advise govt on economic policy

• The government has reconstituted a 31-member advisory committee of the Planning Commission comprising representatives of the private sector and academia to guide the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives in policy formulation to cope with the dire economic challenges.
• Led by Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal, members of the committee consist of government officials, parliamentarians, economic experts, businessmen and educationists from home and abroad.
• A similar 28-member advisory committee was also formed in October 2013. Its contribution to policy formulation and implementation of those policy advices was never made public

4. Nadra hands over 17,600 tablets to PBS for digital census

• In a significant move towards commencement of the first ever digital population and housing census, the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on January 8, 2023 handed over the last batch of 17,600 Android tablet computers to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics(PBS).
• It, however, continues to remain an enigma if fresh delimitation will be carried out for the upcoming general polls or otherwise.
• Nadra Chairman Tariq Malik handed over the secure tablets pow-ere d by a software indigenously developed by Nadra to PBS chief statistician Dr Naeem-uz-Zafar.
• A key component of the seventh Population and Housing Census was the delivery of 126,000 tablets. Nadra has ensured timely assembling and delivery of the hardware through 40 containers in five batches of 21,600 tablets each

International Current Affairs  MCQs News

5. Russia claims killing 600 Ukrainian troops in retaliatory strike

• A Russian rocket strike on the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk caused damage but did not destroy buildings and there were no obvious signs of casualties, a witness said on January 8, 2023, after Russia said the attack killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers.
• Reporters visited the two college dormitories Russia`s defence ministry said had been temporarily housing Ukrainian servicemen close to the front line of the war at the time of the overnight strike. Neither appeared to have been directly hit by missiles or seriously damaged. There were no obvious signs that soldiers had been living there and no sign of bodies or traces of blood. Some of the windows were broken at Hostel No. 47, which stood by a courtyard that had a big crater in it.
• The other building named by Russia`s defence ministry, Hostel No. 28, was entirely intact. A crater lay about 50 metres away closer to some garages.

Click on below NEXT button to read next 6-10 Current Affairs

6. Sweden can`t meet some of Turkiye demands for Nato bid, says PM

• Turkiye, which has for months blocked Nato membership bids by Sweden and Finland, has made some demands that Sweden cannot accept, Sweden`s prime minister said on January 8, 2023.
• `Turkiye has confirmed that we have done what we said we would do, but it also says that it wants things that we can`t, that we don`t want to, give it,` Ulf Kristersson said during a security conference also attended by Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg. `We are convinced that Turkiye will make a decision, we just don`t know when,` he said, adding that it will depend on internal politics inside Turkiye as well as `Sweden`s capacity to show its seriousness.` Sweden and Finland broke with decades of military non-alignment and applied to join the US-led defence alliance in response to Russia`s February invasion of Ukraine.
• But Turkiye has refused to approve their bid until the two countries take steps, including joining Turkiye`s fight against banned Kurdish militants. Most of Turkiye`s demands have involved Sweden because of its more robust ties with the Kurdish diaspora. Finland`s foreign minister said that the country would join Nato at the same time as its neighbour

7. Israel takes away VIP pass over Palestinian world court move

• Israel suspended on January 8, 2023 a pass that eased the Palestinian foreign minister`s travel in and around the occupied West Bank, as part of its response to Palestinian efforts to involve the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the conflict.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s right-wing security cabinet on Friday announced a series of steps, which also included using Palestinian money to compensate victims of Palestinian militant attacks and imposing a moratorium on Palestinian construction in some areas of the Israeli occupied West Bank. Israel collects tax money on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
• Israeli border staff confiscated Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki`s `VIP` travel card as he crossed from Jordan into the occupied West Bank, his office said

8. Russia, Ukraine swap captured soldiers

• Russia and Ukraine swapped 50 captured soldiers each on January 8, 2023 in a deal that both sides welcomed even as they fought one another in eastern Ukraine.
• Russia`s defence ministry said the 50 returned Russian soldiers would be flown to Moscow for medical and psychological rehabilitation.
• `On January 8, as a result of negotiations, 50 Russian servicemen, who were in mortal danger while in captivity, were returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime,` it said in a statement

9. China reopens borders after three years of quarantine

• China lifted quarantine requirements for inbound travellers on January 8, 2023, ending almost three years of self-imposed isolation even as the country battles a surge in Covid cases.
• The first people to arrive expressed relief at not having to undergo the gruelling quarantines that were a fixture of life in zero-Covid China. And in Hong Kong, where the border with mainland China was re-opened after years of closure, more than 400,000 people were set to travel north in the coming eight weeks.
• Beijing last month began a dramatic dismantling of a hardline zero-Covid strategy that had enforced mandatory quarantines and punishing lockdowns

10. `Once in a century flood cuts off communities in Australia

• Military helicopters airlifted hundreds of people from communities cut off by `once in a century` floods in Australia`s northwest, an official leading relief efforts said on January 8, 2023, noting water covered some places `as far as the eye could see`.
• The crisis in the Kimberley an sparsely populated area in Western Australia state about the size of California was sparked last week by severe weather system Ellie, a former tropical cyclone that brought heavy rain.
• `The water is everywhere,` Western Australia Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson told reporters in Perth.
• `People in the Kimberley are experiencing a one-in-100-year flood event, the worst flooding Western Australia has had in its history

Check Video: 25 Preparation Tips on How to Study for CSS at home

Check our daily updated ‘s Complete Day by Day Current Affairs Notes MCQs

Current Affairs MCQs for the month January 2023:

Current Affairs MCQs for the month December 2022:

Current Affairs MCQs for the month November 2022:

Current Affairs MCQs for the month October 2022:

Current Affairs MCQs for the month September 2022:

Current Affairs MCQs for the month August 2022:

Exit mobile version