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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (June 05, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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June 05, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Refusing assent, president returns election, NAB bills

• Continuing to create hurdles for the coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, President Dr Arif Alvi on June 4, 2022 refused to assent to the bills recently passed by the two houses of parliament, seeking amendments to the accountability and election laws, and returned the two pieces of legislation to the government for `consideration and detailed deliberations` by parliament and its committees.
• The president, who belongs to the former ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), has returned the two crucial bills using his powers under Article 75(1) of the Constitution, according to an official handout issued by the President`s Office.
• Article 75(1) states: `When a bill is presented to the president for assent, the president shall, within [ten] days (a) assent to the bill; or (b) in the case of a bill other than a money bill, return the bill to the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) with a message requesting that the bill or any specihed provision thereof, be reconsidered and that any amendment specified in the message be considered

2. PTA at odds with ISPs over domain policy

• Serious differences have cropped up between the telecom sector regulator and internet service providers (ISPs) as the former wants to implement the central DNS (Domain Name System) while the latter are concerned that the move will make the internet speed slow and its rate costly.
• The DNS is a coded system consisting of 12 digits used to identify internet protocol addresses, which translates them into letters to identify a website.
• All the ISPs in the country, including Nayatel, PTCL, SCO, Jazz, Zong, TWA, Wateen, Multinet, Nexlinx, Cybernet and KK Networks, attended a meeting recently called by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to discuss the steps for implementing the centralised DNS blocking policy

3. Economic growth target set at 5pc with Rs800bn PSDP for next fiscal year

• The Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) on June 4, 2022 finalised Rs800 billion worth of the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) to achieve an economic growth rate of 5 per cent in 2022-23.
• The PSDP for next year is Rs100bn lesser than the current year`s allocation of Rs900bn, while the economic growth target of 5pc is also slightly lower than the current year`s provisional output estimate of 5.97pc.
• The APCC also recommended a Rs2.184 trillion including Rs346bn foreign aid as next year`s consolidated development budget for 2022-23 of the federal and provincial governments. This national development outlay will include the federal PSDP of Rs800bn. The National Economic Council (NEC) to be chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will approve these figures before the budget

4. Saudi Arabia receives first foreign Haj pilgrims since Covid began

• Saudi Arabia on June 4, 2022 welcomed its first batch of Haj pilgrims since before the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted authorities to sharply restrict the annual ritual.
• The group from Indonesia landed in the city of Madina and was set to travel south to Makkah in the coming weeks to prepare for the Haj next month, state media reported.
• `Today we received the first group of this year`s pilgrims from Indonesia, and the flights will continue from Malaysia and India, Mohammed al-Bijawi of the country`s Haj ministry told the state-run Al-Ekhbariya channel

5. China to launch next crewed mission today to build space station

• China will launch a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the core module of the unfinished Chinese space station, where they will work and live for six months as construction enters advanced stages.
• A Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft is set to blast off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern province of Gansu at 10:44am local time (0244 GMT) on Sunday, a China Manned Space Agency official told a news conference on Saturday.
• Mission commander Chen Dong will be accompanied by Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe aboard Shenzhou, meaning `Divine Vessel` in Chinese. `All preparations for the launch are basically ready,` said Lin Xiqiang, an agency official

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6. Sri Lanka in diplomatic spat over confiscated Russian plane

• Sri Lanka`s main airport on June 4, 2022 denied the island nation`s government was behind a decision to detain an Aeroflot aircraft, after Russia lodged a diplomatic protest over the move.
• The Airbus A330 was seized at the Bandaranaike International Airport on Thursday, the same day it arrived from Moscow, after a directive from a court in the capital Colombo.
• Flight SU289 was about to return to the Russian capital with 191 passengers and 13 crew aboard.
• Sri Lanka`s top envoy was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry on Friday to receive a `resolute protest` over the detention, Russian state news agency TASS reported

7. Japanese man becomes world`s oldest to sail solo across Pacific

• An 83-year-old yachtsman arrived in Japan early on June 4, 2022 morning after a solo, non-stop trip across the Pacific, becoming the oldest person ever to achieve the feat.
• Famed ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie`s arrival in the Kii Strait off western Japan capped a two-month trip that started from a yacht harbour in San Francisco in March.
• It was only the latest seagoing achievement by the Japanese octogenarian, who in 1962 voyaged from Japan to San Francisco at age 23, becoming the first person in the world to sail alone across the Pacific. The public relations team for his most recent voyage said Horie`s return to Japan made him the world`s oldest person to pull off a solo, non-stop crossing of the largest and deepest ocean on Earth

8. Tunisian judges to strike for a week in protest over purge

• Tunisia`s judges will suspend work in courts for a week and hold a sit-in to protest against a purge of their ranks, amid growing tensions over the president`s attempts to consolidate one-man rule.
• President Kais Saied this week dismissed 57 judges, accusing them of corruption and protecting terrorists in a crackdown on the judiciary his latest step to tighten his grip on power in the North African country.
• Judge Hammadi Rahmani said a meeting of judges on Saturday voted unanimously to suspend work in all courts, and to start the sit-in. The strike will start on Monday in all judicial institutions and could be extended, Anas Hamaidi, president of the Association of Judges, said

9. Ukraine `pushes back` Russian troops in battlefield city

• Ukraine said on June 4, 2022 it had recaptured a swathe of the battlefield city of Sievierodonetsk, in a rare counteroffensive against Russia`s main assault force that had been steadily advancing in the east.
• The Ukrainian claim could not be independently verified and Moscow said its own forces were making gains there. But it was the first time Kyiv has claimed to have launched a big counter-attack in Sieverodonetsk after days of yielding ground there.
• Russia has concentrated its forces on Sievierodonetsk in recent weeks for one of the biggest ground battles of the war, with Moscow appearing to bet its campaign on capturing one of two eastern provinces it claims on behalf of separatist proxies

10. Climber banned for faking Everest ascent reaches summit

• An Indian climber banned from Everest after faking a summit of the world`s highest mountain has successfully scaled the peak for real, saying he returned to `prove` himself.
• Narender Singh Yadav claimed to have reached the top of the 8,849-metre mountain in May 2016.
• But photos of the 26-year-old at the summit were later shown to have been digitally altered, prompting the Nepal government to revoke recognition of his feat.
• Yadav and two other climbers were issued a six-year ban backdated to 2016, and this was the first year he was able to return to the mountain

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