Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Aug 06 2023) for CSS

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6. Takes two to tango, Pakistan tells India

• Pakistan has urged India to resume bilateral talks on Kashmir and other issues, reminding it that refusing to talk would have dangerous consequences for all.
• `There should be some resonance of reciprocity from New Delhi as well,` said Pakistan`s US ambassador, and a former president of Azad Kashmir, while addressing a meeting in Washington. `It takes two to tango. It can`t be a monologue. It needs to be a dialogue

7. Congo fever claims four lives since Eidul Azha

• With Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever infecting 14 people and killing four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last one and a half months, health experts have called for preventive measures against the tick-borne disease.
• The cases of Congo fever have been reported after Eidul Azha at the end of June, according to a health department report

8. Indian lunar mission enters Moon`s orbit

• India`s latest space mission entered the Moon`s orbit on Saturday ahead of the country`s second attempted lunar landing, as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights.
• The world`s most populous nation has a comparatively low-budget aerospace programme that is rapidly closing in on the milestones set by global space powers.
• Only Russia, the United States and China have previously achieved a controlled landing on the lunar surface

9. Saudi dives into Ukraine peace push with Jeddah talks

• Saudi Arabia is hosting talks on the Ukraine war on Saturday in the latest flexing of its diplomatic muscle, a session that Kyiv acknowledged would `not be easy` given the wide range of countries represented.
• The meeting, which Ukrainian organisers had said would include representatives from around 40 countries but not Russia, began on Saturday in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah, participants said

10. Russian strikes kill three civilians in Syria

• Three family members, all civilians, were killed on Saturday when Russian warplanes struck the outskirts of the northwest Syrian city of Idlib, a war monitor said.
• Russia has over the years repeatedly struck Syria`s last main opposition bastion, but attacks killing civilians had been limited this year until an uptick in violence in late June.