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

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6. Balochistan gets women police station after 28 years

• The first police station for women in Balochistan opened its doors on March 4, 2022. The facility in the provincial capital was inaugurated by Inspector General Police (IGP) Balochistan Mohsin Hassan Butt.
• The police station dedicated to serve women in Balochistan came into existence 28 years after the first such facility was set up in the country. Pakistan`s first women police station was inaugurated by late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Islamabad onJanuary25,1994.
• Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, IGP Balochistan said, `Keeping in mind the traditional environment of the province, I have been striving to establish a separate police station for women so that they can lodge their complaints with confidence in a peaceful environment

7. Ukraine accuses Russian troops of rape, backs creation of special tribunal

• Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on March 4, 2022 accused Russian troops of raping women and backed a call for the creation of a special tribunal to punish Moscow`s aggression.
• `We have numerous cases of, unfortunately, when Russian soldiers rape women in the Ukrainian cities,` Kuleba told a briefing at London`s Chatham House think tank.
• He did not provide details but supported an appeal by former British prime minister Gordon Brown and a swathe of international law experts for a special tribunal. International law `is the only tool of civilisation that is available to us to make sure that in the end, eventually, all those who made this war possible will be brought to justice,` Kuleba said, as civilian casualties mount in Ukraine

8. Russians take Ukraine nuclear plant; no radiation after fire

• Russian troops on March 4, 2022 seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn in Moscow`s invasion of Ukraine yet.
• Firefighters put out the blaze, and no radiation was released, UN and Ukrainian of ficials said, as Russian forces pressed on with their week-old offensive on multiple fronts and the number of refugees fleeing the country topped 1.2 million.
• While the vast Russian armored column threatening Kyiv appeared stalled outside the capital, President Vladimir Putin`s military has launched hundreds of missiles and artil1ery attacks on cities and other sites around the country, and made significant gains on the ground in the south in an apparent bid to cut off Ukraine`s access to the sea

9. UN panel to probe rights violations during war

• In a diplomatic victory for Ukraine, the UN Human Rights Council on March 4, 2022 overwhelmingly voted to create a top-level investigation into violations committed following Russia`s invasion of Ukraine.
• However, in a setback for the war-torn country, Nato declined to impose a no-fly-zone over it, despite Kyiv`s appeals for urgent measures to stop Russian bombardments.
• Thirty-two members of the 47-seat UN rights council voted to establish the highest-level probe possible into alleged rights violations, in a bid to hold perpetrators responsible.

10. Cricketing world reels from loss of two Aussie greats

• The cricketing world on Friday lost two all time greats of the game; one who cut a distinctive, mustachioed figure behind the stumps for Australia, while the other was arguably the greatest leggie to ever step onto a cricketing pitch.
• 74-year-old Rodney Marsh, who played 96 Tests and later remained a national selector, had been in an induced coma and passed away peacefully in an Adelaide hospital on Friday morning, his family confirmed. He had suffered a heart attack during a fundraising event in Queensland last week.
• But mere hours after he condoled the death of the Aussie wicket-keeper on Twitter, Shane Keith Warne a larger-than-life character whose tally of 708 Test wickets has only been surpassed by Muttiah Muralitharan was found unresponsive in his villa on the Thai island of Koh Samui