✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India and Pakistan exchanged the lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen in their custody. Under the provisions of the 2008 Agreement on Consular Access, such lists are exchanged every year on 1st January and 1st July.
2. India and Pakistan also exchanged the list of nuclear installations and facilities, covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between the two countries.
3. India will assume the chairmanship of the plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement for one year. The 42-member Wassenaar Arrangement is a voluntary export control regime that monitors transfers of conventional weapons and dual-use goods.
4. International Year of Millets 2023 begins with enthusiasm across globe to create awareness about its significance in sustainable agriculture.
Indian embassies allocated a focussed month in 2023 to carry out various activities for the promotion of the International Year of Millets and increase awareness about the benefits of millets.
5. External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held talks with Bulgaria’s President Rumen Georgiev Radev in Vienna. He informed that they discussed strengthening of cooperation in the context of Make in India.
6. More than 500 literary personalities across the globe will be taking part in the 10th edition of the Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) to be held in Dhaka between Jan 5-8.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sworn in as president of Brazil.
2. In Afghanistan, Taliban-run interior ministry said that an explosion outside the military airport in Kabul on Sunday has caused multiple casuacauseway.
3. Venezuela and Colombia will fully reopen their shared border to allow passage of cargo and passenger transport via the cross-border Tienditas bridge.
4. Nepal’s newly-appointed PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Sunday inaugurated an international airport built with Chinese assistance in western Nepal’s tourist hub of Pokhara.
Nepal had signed a $215.96 million soft loan agreement with China for the airport’s construction. The Pokhara Regional International Airport is a flagship project under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal.
5. WHO asks China to regularly share data on COVID-19 situation – The World Health Organization has again urged China to regularly share specific and real-time data on the COVID-19 situation in the country, amid a surge in coronavirus cases after Beijing relaxed its strict “zero-COVID” policy.
6. Covid variant XBB.1.5 account for over 40pc of cases in US
7. Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95 – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday. He was 95. Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced, in his typical, soft-spoken Latin, that he no longer had the strength to run the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic Church that he had steered for eight years through scandal and indifference.
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