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September 06, 2023: International Current Affairs MCQs News

6. UN agency warns against extraction of sand from world`s oceans

Some six billion tonnes of sand and other sediment is extracted from the world`s seas and oceans every year, the UN said on Tuesday, warning of the devastating toll on biodiversity and coastal communities.
Launching the first ever global data platform on sediment extraction in marine environments, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), warned that the scale of dredging was growing, with dire consequences

7. Thai king swears in PM and cabinet

Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn swore in Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and cabinet ministers in a coalition government made up of 11 parties on Tuesday.
Srettha, whose Pheu Thai party leads the coalition, and 33 cabinet ministers pledged their loyalty to the monarchy during the ceremony at the Dusit Palace in Bangkok. The government will deliver its policy statement to parliament on Monday

8. EU records 28pc jump in asylum requests this year

The number of migrants lodging asylum applications in the EU has jumped 28 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, official figures released on Tuesday showed.
Between January and the end of June this year, there were 519,000 such requests made in the 27-nation bloc and associated countries Switzerland and Norway, the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) said

9. Indian SC concludes hearing on Kashmir status change

India`s Supreme Court concluded on Tuesday its hearing on challenges to New Delhi`s 2019 imposition of direct rule in held Kashmir, a decision that led to protests and mass arrests.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s government suspended Article 370 of the Constitution that guarantees limited autonomy to the disputed region, home to a long-running insurgency against Indian rule

10. Modi moves to drop `India`, keep `Bharat` as official name

The Modi government on Tuesday appeared to have made an unannounced move towards changing the country`s name from the internationally recognised `India` to the Hindi variant, `Bharat`.
The Constitution describes the country in the preamble as India and Bharat. There has been a longstanding quest for the Hindu right to drop India as the country`s official name