Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (October 25, 2022) for CSS, PMS

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6. Sunak set to become UK`s first PM with Indian roots

• The race to `claim` Rishi Sunak was very much on October 24, 2022, when fellow Conservative party member and leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the race to give the former chancellor a clear path to 10 Downing Street.
• According to Talkware data, the chatter on social media around Sunak`s appointment was more positive than negative an unusual trend for a newly appointed prime minister.
• Indians on social media dubbed it a `wonderful Diwali gift` that the UK`s first prime minister of colour is a Hindu and of Indian heritage. Many congratulated Narayan Murhty, Mr Sunak`s father-in-law who is the founder of Indian IT giant Infosys.
• Though some pointed out that 42-year-old Sunak`s parents in fact migrated out of the subcontinent from Gujranwala in present-day Pakistan, the more interesting observation was if India or Pakistan would ever appoint a person from an ethnic minority to lead the country

7. Kyrgyzstan detains border deal critics over `coup` plans

• Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have detained more than 20 politicians and civil servants accused of organising riots over a border demarcation deal with the neighbouring Central Asian country Uzbekistan, a rights group said on October 24, 2022.
• The Kylym Chamy rights group said that 22 people had been detained across the politically volatile ex-Soviet country and were accused of planning a coup attempt and violent protests. The people detained are part of a group that is critical of a draft government deal with Uzbekistan that critics say could see Bishkek hand over control of a key dam to Uzbekistan.
• Water is an increasingly scarce resource in Central Asia and the Kempir-Abad dam was constructed when both countries were part of the Soviet Union.
• Disputes over borders and resources still routinely flare three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union and violence regularly erupts on Kyrgyzstan`s border with neighbouring Tajikistan

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8. Plastic recycling remains a `myth`, says Greenpeace study

• Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out October 24, 2022 that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as `fiction.
• Titled `Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, the study found that of 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by US households in 2021, only 2.4 million tons were recycled, or around five percent.
• After peaking in 2014 at 10 percent, the trend has been decreasing, especially since China stopped accepting the West`s plastic waste in 2018.
• Virgin production of non-recycled plastic, that is meanwhile is rapidly rising as the petrochemical industry expands, lowering costs

9. Lost 17th-century warship found in Sweden

• Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister vessel of the iconic 17th-century warship `Vasa`, which sank on its maiden voyage, the Swedish Museum of Wrecks said on October 24, 2022.
• Launched in 1629, `Applet` (The Apple) was built by the same shipbuilder as the famed 69-metre (225-foot) `Vasa`, which is now on display in Stockholm after being salvaged in the 1960s.
• `Our pulses raced when we saw how similar the wreck was to Vasa,` said Jim Hansson, maritime archaeologist at the museum.
• The huge shipwreck was discovered in December 2021 in a strait off the island of Vaxholm just outside the capital, Stockholm, according to the museum

10. Taskin shines against Dutch in BD`s maiden Super 12 win

• Bangladesh won their first-ever game in a Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 October 24, 2022, with Taskin Ahmed taking 4-25 as the Netherlands imploded early and never recovered, losing by nine runs.
• The Dutch, who battled through the preliminary roundtoreachtheSuper12, held the Asian nation to 144-8 with Paul van Meekeren becoming his country`s joint all-time T20 wicket-taker along the way.
• But they got off to a horror start in the run chase, losing two wickets off the first two balls to Taskin then suffered two run-outs in one over to slump to 15-4 in cold conditions at Hobart.
• Colin Ackermann with 62 played a lone hand, making his maiden T20 half-century as the Netherlands were all out for 135 on the final ball