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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 09, 2022) for CSS, PMS

Shahzad F. Malik
Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (May 09, 2022) for CSS, PMS
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May 09, 2022: National / International Current Affairs

1. Water inflows show 37pc improvement

• Water inflows into major reservoirs are improving due to snow melting on mountains following increase in temperatures.
• The Indus River System Authority`s fresh data shows 37 per cent increase in inflows within the last week, as the system received 158,347 cusecs of water on May 7 in all its rivers against 98,852 cusecs a week ago.
• Tarbela Dam, the largest water reservoir in the country which hit a dead level of 1,392 feet on Feb 22, showed an improvement of 16 feet as water level was 1,408 feet on May 7. On Saturday, the inflow into Tarbela was 62,400 cusecs and outflow 51,000 cusecs

2. Lakki in top 10 districts showing best education score

• Lakki Marwat has been included in the top 10 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa showing the best education score, claimed an official on May 8, 2022.
• He said the monthly education ranking of the districts was issued on the basis of performance scorecard. He said Lakki Marwat remained at the bottom of education scorecard for one year.
• `However, now the district has been included in the top 10 districts, ranking seventh across the province on the basis of previous month`s evaluation,` he claimed.
• The official said the credit for the satisfactory education ranking went to district education officer Zahoor Khan, who worked hard to improve the performance indicators

3. 800 Pakistani Hindus returned home from India, says NGO

• Around 800 Pakistani Hindus in Rajasthan, who came to India seeking citizenship on the basis of alleged religious persecution, returned to the country in 2021, according to Seemant Lok Sangathan (SLS), a group that advocates for the rightsof Pakistani minority migrants in India, The Hindu said on May 8, 2022.
• It quoted SLS as saying that many of the returnees went home after ending no progress in their citizenship application.
• Their return is said to be embarrassing for India where the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) initiated an online citizenship application process in 2018. It also made 16 Collectors in seven States to accept online applications to grant citizenship to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, Jain and Buddhists from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh

4. Mumbai mosques turn volume down on Azaan

• Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayerhall, Mohammed Ashfaq Kazi, the main preacher at the largest mosque in Mumbai, checked a decibel meter attached to the loudspeakers before he gave the call to worship.
• `The volume of our Azaan (call to prayer) has become a political issue, but I don`t want it to take a communal turn,` said Kazi, one of the most influential Islamic scholars in the sprawling metropolis on India`s western coast.
• As he spoke he pointed to loudspeakers attached to the minarets of the ornate, sand-coloured Juma Masjid in Mumbai`s old trading quarters

5. 60 feared dead in Ukraine school bombed by Russia

• As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on May 8, 2022.
• Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Russian forces of targeting civilians in the war, which Moscow denies.
• Russian forces also continued shelling the Azovstal steelworks, the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined southeastern port city of Mariupol, where soldiers from the Azov regiment vowed to keep on fighting.
• Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai said the school in Bilohorivka, where about 90 people were sheltering, was hit on Saturday by a Russian bomb that set the building ablaze for four hours

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6. Assad meets Khamenei, Iran`s president

• Syrian President Bashar al Assad met with Iran`s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi during a brief visit to Tehran on Sunday, Iranian state television said.
• `Assad has left Iran for Damascus after meeting separately with the supreme leader` and the president, the report said.
• Iran is a major ally of Assad, backing him alongside Russia in Syria`s more than decade long civil war.
• Tehran has given financial and military support to the Assad regime during the 11-year war, and says it has deployed forces in Syria at the invitation of Damascus but only as advisers

7. N. Ireland in limbo after seismic Sinn Fein triumph

• Northern Ireland`s feuding leaders came under international pressure on May 8, 2022 to unite in a new government, after the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein secured an unprecedented election win.
• Once the political wing of the paramilitary IRA, Sinn Fein won enough seats in the devolved legislature to nominate its Northern Ireland leader Michelle O`Neill as first minister.
• The result from Thursday`s election for the Stormont assembly marked a potentially seismic shift, a century after Northern Ireland was carved out as a Protestant fiefdom under British rule

8. 12.3 million children need aid in Syria, says UN

• More Syrian children are in need than at any time since a devastating civil war erupted over a decade ago, but funding for them is `dwindling`, the United Nations warned on May 8, 2022.
• `Syria`s children have suffered for far too long and should not suffer any longer, the UN children`s agency said in a statement, noting that 12.3 million were in need of aid both inside the country and in the wider region where they had fled.
• `More than 6.5 million children in Syria are in need of assistance, the highest number recorded since the beginning of the crisis, more than 11 years ago,` it added.
• Syria`s war is estimated to have killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions since it began with a brutal crackdown of antigovernment protests in 2011

9. G7 countries pledge to stop oil imports from Russia

• The G7 club of wealthy nations committed on May 8, 2022 to phasing out its dependence on Russian oil and issued a scathing statement accusing President Vladimir Putin of bringing `shame` on Russia with his invasion of Ukraine.
• The statement from the Group of Seven France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and the United States did not specify exactly what commitments each country will make to move away from Russian energy.
• But it was an important development in the ongoing campaign to pressure Putin by crippling Russia`s economy, and underscores the unity of the international community against Moscow`s actions

10. Boos, heckles greet Lankan PM on first public outing

• Boos and heckles greeted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on May 08, 2022 on his first public outing since nationwide protests erupted demanding his ruling family resign over the worsening economic crisis.
• Months of blackouts and acute shortages of food, fuel and medicines have caused widespread suffering across the South Asian island in its worst economic downturn since independence in 1948. On Sunday, the premier visited one of the holiest Buddhist temples housing a reputedly 2,300-yearold tree in Anuradhapura.
• But dozens of people carried hand-written placards and chanted slogans demanding that `thieves` be banned from the sacred city, 200 kilometres north of Colombo. `We will worship you if you stand down (as prime minister) and leave,` one man shouted

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