✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Cabinet approves Disaster Management MoU between India and Bangladesh. Actually Resilience and Mitigation signed between India and Bangladesh in March this year during the visit of Prime Minister Modi to Bangladesh. Both the countries will also exchange relevant information, remote sensing and other scientific data.
2. India HAL signs ₹5,375 crore contract on 17 Aug with US for Tejas engines with GE Aviation for supply of 99 F404-GE-IN20 engines to power the aircraft.
3. India, Vietnam undertake bilateral maritime exercise in South China Sea. Deployment of Indian Navy ships in the South China Sea, INS Ranvijay and INS Kora. The Indian Naval ships arrived at Cam Ranh, Vietnam on 15th Aug.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is in the UAE. Confirmed by UAE & said that the country is hosting Ghani on “humanitarian grounds”. Ghani fled Afghanistan amid a Taliban takeover.
2. Sri Lanka on 17 Aug (Tuesday) signed a loan agreement with China worth 2 billion Renminbi (USD 308 million) to support its COVID-19 response, economic revival and financial stability, the Chinese embassy said.
3. French Military aircraft lands in Kabul with special forces to pick up French national in Afghanistan.
4. The govt of Bangladesh has turned down a request from the US to provide temporary shelter to some people from Afghanistan in the wake of the political developments there.
5. New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months. The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days.
6. More than 30 civilians killed following two days of inter-communal violence in central South Sudan.
7. US sends nearly half a million doses of Pfizer vaccine to Rwanda. Rwanda, which has vaccinated 10% of its adult population, is yet to confirm receipt of the US donation.
8. AFGHANISTAN POLITICAL CRISIS :Taliban leaders meet Ex-President Hamid Karzai, Abdullah amid impasse over govt formation.
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Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
