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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 13, 2022) for CSS, PMS

September 13, 2022
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6. 50m people living in modern slavery, says ILO

• The `Global Estimates of Modern Slavery`, published on Monday says 50 million people are living in modern slavery in 2021, and of these people, 28m are in forced labour and 22m are trapped in forced marriage.
• The report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) further says the number of people in modern slavery has risen significantly in the last five years. Ten million more people were in modern slavery in 2021, compared to 2016 global estimates. Women and children remain disproportionately vulner able.
• The IL O report says no region of the world is spared from forced labour, and Asia and the Pacific is host to more than half of the global total (15.1m), followed by Europe and Central Asia (4.1m), Africa (3.8m), the Americas (3.6m), and the Arab States (0.9m)

7. Ukraine claims retaking more ground as Russia strikes back

• Ukrainian forces said on September 12, 2022 their lightning counter-offensive took back yet more ground in the past 24 hours, as Russia responded with strikes on some of the recaptured areas.
• The territorial shifts marked one of Russia`s biggest reversals since its troops were turned back from Kyiv in the earliest days of the nearly seven months of fighting, yet Moscow signalled it was no closer to agreeing a negotiated peace.
• The retreat of Russian troops in recent days has drawn weeping and relieved locals into bomb-cratered streets, including on Sunday in the strategic but heavily damaged town of Izyum.

8. Germany in talks to buy Israeli missile defence system

• Germany is in talks to buy a missile defence system from Israel as part of Berlin`s efforts to strengthen its armed forces after Russia`s invasion of Ukraine, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on a visit to the German capital on September 12, 2022.
• Germany has ramped up its military spending after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February, while shipping aid and heavy weapons to Kyiv as part of an international response.
• `Israel … will play a part in building Germany`s new defence force, mainly in the field of air defence,` Lapid told reporters, speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

9. Biden promotes biotech, cancer fight in new `Moonshot` initiative

• President Joe Biden issued an executive order on September 12, 2022 boosting the US biotech sector as part of his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which invokes the national effort to land a man on the Moon 60 years ago.
• The president was in Boston for an address deliberately set to echo John F.
• Kennedy`s famous 1962 `Moonshot speech` in which he called for landing an American on the lunar surface something achieved in 1969.
• This time, Biden is pushing for government-backed efforts to coordinate and fund a multilayered fight against cancer, with the goal of halving cancer death rates in the next 25 years

10. Court allows Hindu women to pray at Varanasi mosque

• A Varanasi court on September 12, 2022 ruled in favour of five Hindu women who had sought permission to pray at a historic mosque in the city.
• The order is said to have opened the door for other petitions, demanding more mosques to be treated similarly. It effectively rejected the objection by the Muslim side that had opposed the plea for the right to pray inside the Gyanvapi Mosque premises all-year round.
• The Muslim side would now have to prove the ownership of what had hitherto been described as Waqf land.
• The court fixed Sept 22 as the next date of hearing. Merajuddin Siddiqui, the advocate representing the Muslim side, said they would move the Allahabad High Court against the judgement.

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