Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (Oct 04 2023) for CSS

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6. Gandhara authority bill dismissed for `too many loopholes`

A parliamentary committee on Tuesday unanimously dismissed `The Promotion and Protection of Gandhara Culture Authority Bill 2023` due to `too many loopholes` in the proposed legislation.
The members of the Senate Standing Committee on National Heritage and Culture were in consensus that the draft law had already been rejected in a prior committee meeting

7. New BISP chairman

Dr Muhammad Amjad Saqib has been appointed chairman of the Benazir Income Support Programme.
The post was lying vacant since the exit of its previous chairperson Shazia Marri.
He has a vast experience in poverty alleviation, social development, governance, educational reforms and public management

8. Trio wins physics Nobel for illuminating electrons

France`s Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and Franco-Swede Anne L`Huillier won the Nobel prize in physics on Tuesday for research using ultra quick light flashes that enable the study of electrons inside atoms and molecules.
Their technique employs pulses measured in attoseconds, a unit so short that there are as many in one second as there have been seconds since the universe`s birth over 13 billion years ago, the jury said

9. Indian troops won`t be in Maldives anymore, says president-elect

The president elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, has marked his victory with a pledge to end foreign military presence in his small but strategically placed atoll nation.
Muizzu, addressing his first public rally after winning Saturday`s runoff election, stopped short of naming India, the only foreign power with a military deployment in the archipelago.
He won an `India-out` campaign after New Delhi placed a small unit of security personnel to operate four reconnaissance aircraft gifted to the Maldives to patrol its vast maritime territory

10. US House ousts Speaker McCarthy in historic first

The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his job, as infighting among his fellow Republicans plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown.
The 216 to 210 vote marked the first time in history that the House removed its leader, driven by a relatively small group of right-wing Republicans. No clear successor has emerged