Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Dec 12 2023) for CSS

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6. Indian `justice` leaves Kashmir at Modi`s mercy

Four years after PM Narendra Modi`s Hindu nationalist government abrogated the special constitutional status of India-held Jammu and Kashmir, India`s Supreme Court on Monday endorsed the measure that had angered China and Pakistan and brought pain and misery to its predominantly Muslim population.
A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the power of the president to abrogate Article 370 in August 2019, leading to the reorganisation of the fullfledged State of Jammu and Kashmir to two Union Territories and stripped it of its special privileges

7. Toll crosses 18,000 as bombs rain on south Gaza

More air strikes rained down destruction on the city of Khan Yunis on Monday, while deadly fighting and bombing shook the central and northern parts of the besieged enclave.
The health ministry said the death toll has risen to 18,205 in the Palestinian territory, mostly women and children. Some 49,645 people have been wounded since Oct 7, ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qudra said in a statement

8. Myanmar junta holds talks with rebel groups under China`s gaze

China said on Monday peace talks had been held over the conflict in northern Myanmar and yielded `positive results`, after weeks of fighting between the country`s junta and ethnic minority armed groups.
Clashes have raged across Myanmar`s northern Shan state after the Arakan Army (AA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the Ta`ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) launched an offensive in late October

9. Netanyahu allowed $1bn to flow into Hamas hands

Israel approved the transfer of more than $1 billion from Qatar to the Hamasrun Gaza, even though there were intelligence warnings that the group was planning large-scale attacks into Israel, US and Israeli media reported on Monday.
The New York Times, CNN and Ha`aretz reported that from 2012 to 2018, more than $1.1bn reached Gaza from Qatar, with the Israeli government`s approval

10. Ex-Afghan troops `abandoned` by UK face deportation threat

Around 200 Afghan special forces personnel, stranded in Pakistan while awaiting relocation to the UK, are facing deportation back to the country they escaped from in 2021, according to BBC.
The report says the personnel, trained and funded by the UK, fled to Pakistan after the Afghan Taliban took over Kabul.