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Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (September 18, 2022) for CSS, PMS

September 18, 2022
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6. Pakistan major beneficiary of ADB`s food import plan

• Pakistan immensely benefited through the Trade and Supply Chain Finance Programme (TSCFP) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for food and agriculture-related imports during the past 18 months.
• TSCFP supported more than 1,900 food and agriculture-related imports valued at $2.3 billion to 10 countries in developing Asia, with most assistance going to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam, according to information released by ADB.
• ADB says it has boosted its support to ease worsening food shortages in Asia and the Pacific by expanding assistance through its `Trade and Supply Chain Finance Programme to clear bottlenecks in the import of food and agriculture products

7. Democratic Party officials call out Hindutva groups, seek FBI, CIA probe

• A Democratic Party unit in a New Jersey town has passed a resolution calling out the US-based Hindutva outfits as `domestic branches` of `foreign hate groups` The resolution named several right-wing Hindu groups such as the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), SEWA International, Infinity Foundation and Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation among the outfits that practise Hindu supremacism in the United States.
• Passed by the Teaneck Democratic Municipal Committee (TDMC) this week, the resolution urged US senators and congressmen from New Jersey, and Governor Phil Murphy, to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to `step up` research on these `foreign hate groups that enjoy `tax-exempt status` in the United States.
• `Hindu nationalist organisations have in filtrated all levels of politics and were highly effective in blocking US House Resolution 417 which was a congressional attempt to warn against the Hindu nationalist movement,` TDMC said.

8. US warns Russia against using N-weapons

• Amid a counter-offensive by Moscow with fresh strikes in several regions of Ukraine after Vladimir Putin`s claim that the plan is not subject to adjustment, US President Joe Biden has warned his Russian counterpart against using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the wake of serious losses.
• `Don`t. Don`t. Don`t,` Biden said, in an excerpt from an interview with CBS` `60 Minutes` aired Friday evening. `You would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II,` he said.
• `They will become more of a pariah in the world, more than they have ever been,` the US leader added.
• Moscow is facing fresh outrage from the West after the discovery of a mass grave outside the formerly Russian-occupied city of Izyum

9. US court rejects big tech`s right to regulate speech on social media platforms

• A US appeals court on Friday upheld a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on `viewpoint,` a setback for technology industry groups that say the measure would turn platforms into bastions of dangerous content.
• The 3-0 ruling by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, sets up the potential for the Supreme Court to rule on the law, which conservatives and right-wing commentators have said is necessary to prevent `Big Tech` from suppressing their views.
• `Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,` Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, wrote in the ruling.
• The Texas law was passed by the state`s Republican-led legislature and signed by its Republican governor

10. Panama charges two former presidents with corruption

• Panamanian prosecutors have charged former presidents Ricardo Martinelli and Juan Carlos Varela with laundering money from construction giant Odebrecht, after the company admitted paying bribes in the country.
• The two men, who collectively led Panama between 2009 and 2019, were not present at a court hearing on Friday. Prosecutors accused the pair of using front companies and foreign bank accounts to receive funds from Odebrecht between 2008 and 2014.
• About 50 other people are implicated in the charges, including several former ministers, prosecutors said.

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