Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 03, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. Javed Iqbal quits as NAB chief

• Retired Justice Javed Iqbal relinquished charge as National Accountability Bureau chairman on June 2, 2022 after the expiry of a recently promulgated ordinance which had allowed him to stay in office until the appointment of a new chief.
• The previous government had promulgated the ordinance to extend the NAB chief`s tenure for an indefinite period.
• However, the new government got a bill passed in the National Assembly which has made the watchdog, as described by PTI leaders, `toothless`.
• A few names are in contention for succeeding Justice Javed Iqbal as NAB chairman

7. Over 700m people globally have no access to electricity: WB report

• A new World Bank report says 733 million people globally have no access to electricity, while 2.4 billion people are still using fuels detrimental to their health and the environment.
• At the current rate of progress, 670m people will remain without electricity by 2030 10 million more than projected last year, according to the `Energy Progress Report`, which is the 2022 edition of Tracking SDG-7 released on Wednesday. The report shows that the impacts of the pandemic, including lockdowns, disruptions to global supply chains, and diversion of fiscal resources to keep food and fuel prices affordable, have affected the pace of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030.
• Nearly 90m people in Asia and Africa, who had previously gained access to electricity, can no longer afford to pay for their basic energy needs, points out the report

8. North Korea takes over as UN disarmament president

• North Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a UN body aimed at striking disarmament deals amid scorn from critics.
• This year North Korea has tested a flurry of ballistic missiles also banned by UNSC resolutions and appears to be preparing to conduct a new nuclear test for the first time since 2017. It gained the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament because it rotates alphabetically among its 65 members.
• `The DPRK remains committed to contributing to global peace and disarmament and attaches importance to the work of the conference,` Ambassador Han Tae Song told the Geneva meeting, saying it was an `honour and a privilege` to hold the role

9. Four Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in two days

• Israeli troops shot dead a teen in the West Bank on June 2, 2022, the Palestinian health ministry said, the fourth Palestinian killed in the occupied territory in two days.
• The ministry identified the slain Palestinian as 17-year-old Odeh Odeh, who was hit in the chest by what it said was an Israeli bullet near the village of Al-Madiya, west of Ramallah.
• The Israeli army had no immediate comment.
• It came hours after a Palestinian man was killed during a clash with Israeli forces conducting an arrest operation in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem

10. Indian officials meet Taliban, discuss bilateral ties, aid

• A team of Indian officials met the acting Taliban foreign minister of Afghanistan on June 2, 2022 to discuss bilateral ties and humanitarian aid, the Taliban said, in what was the first such visit to Kabul since the chaotic withdrawal of US troops last year.
• Poverty and hunger have rocketed in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power after the United States pulled out, and India has sent food grains and other aid.
• The Taliban administration`s acting foreign minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttagi, met an Indian foreign ministry delegation led by senior official J.P. Singh