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

October 5, 2022
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6. Iran shuts Gabd-Rimdan border after deadly clashes

• The Iranian government has closed the Gabd Rimdan border on Tuesday, officials said.
• Official sources said Iran had closed the crossing point af ter armed clashes between its security forces and Iranian Baloch people in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan Baluchistan province, in which `hundreds of people were killed several others injured`.
• Iranian forces also suffered casualties, including two senior intelligence commanders.
• The border crossing point, inaugurated earlier this year, is located between Gabd in Balochistan and Rimdan in Iran`s Sistan province.
• `The Gabd crossing gate was closed for an indefinite period for pilgrims and trade,` officials said

7. Prison chief murdered in held Kashmir

• The chief of the prison service in held Kashmir has been murdered, police said on Tuesday, as the powerful interior minister visited the occupied valley.
• The body of Hemant Kumar Lohia, 57, the region`s director general of prisons, was found at his home on Monday night in the Jammu region, police said.
• Police said a household helper was the main suspect but an Islamist militant group said it had targeted and killed Lohia. Senior police officer Mukesh Singh said Lohia`s throat had been cut and his body bore burns. The initial investigation suggested it was not a `terror act` but police were investigating, he said

8. Angela Merkel wins UN refugee prize

• Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday won the United Nations refugee agency`s prestigious Nansen Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office.
• Pointing to the more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers welcomed by Germany in 2015 and 2016, at the height of migrant crisis sparked especially by the war in Syria, the UNHCR selection committee hailed Merkel`s `leadership, courage and compassion.
• At the time, the woman who lead the German government for 16 years said the situation `put our European values to the test as seldom before. It was no more and no less than a humanitarian imperative.` The UN refugee agency highlighted how she had called on her fellow Germans to reject divisive nationalism, urging them instead to be `compassionate and open-minded`

9. N. Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan

• North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter.
• The latest launch which the US branded `reckless and dangerous` comes in a record year of sanctions-busting weapons tests by North Korea, which recently revised its laws to declare itself an `irreversible` nuclear power.
• US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida both condemned the test firing, the White House said after a call between the two.
• Biden also reiterated the US` `ironclad commitment to Japan`s defence,` the statement said

10. Trio wins physics Nobel for experiments in `spooky` quantum science

• A trio of physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics that have paved the way for quantum computers, networks and secure encrypted communication.
• Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the United States and Austria`s Anton Zeilinger were honoured for `groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated`, the committee said.
• `It has become increasingly clear that a new kind of quantum technology is emerging,` said Anders Irback, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics

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