✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India joins Quad partners, Japan and South Korea for Sea Dragon exercise
Sea Dragon is a US-led multi-national exercise designed to practice and discuss Anti-submarine warfare tactics to operate together in response to traditional and non-traditional maritime security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.
2. India welcomes Joint Statement by Leaders of Five Nuclear weapon states on preventing nuclear war and avoiding arms races with China, USA, France, Russia and UK.
3. Hyderabad medicos perform successful heart surgery on Myanmar PM’s grandchild. Two senior cardiologists from Rainbow Children’s Heart Institute in Hyderabad performed a successful heart surgery on the Myanmar PM’s 9-month-old grandchild. Dr Nageswara Rao Koneti and Dr Shweta Bakhru, two senior cardiologists at Rainbow Children’s Heart Institute (RCHI), travelled to Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, last week, to perform the procedure.
4. India on Friday made seven-day home quarantine mandatory for all international arrivals and an RT-PCR test on the eighth day, as it issued revised guidelines for international passengers.
5. 190 passengers from Italy tested positive for Covid-19 at Amritsar’s Shri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport on Friday.
6. India has sent yet another batch of medical assistance to Kabul, in line with it’s commitment and efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghan people.
This is the third batch of medical assistance which consists of 2 tonnes of essential life-saving medicines which was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Israel has signed a deal with the United States to buy 12 Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) CH-53K helicopters and two Boeing Co (BA.N) KC-46 refuelling planes, the Israeli Defence Ministry said.
2. Biden administration’s top official on environmental justice resigns: Senior Director for Environmental Justice at the US Council on Environmental Quality, Cecilia Martinez, has announced to step down
3. South Korea dismissed North Korea’s claims of launching a hypersonic missile on Wednesday as an exaggeration. A South Korean military official said that the missile test did not demonstrate the range and manoeuvrability as claimed in North Korean state media reports. South Korea added that it was a normal ballistic missile which could be intercepted and shot down.
4. US and Japan vowed greater defence cooperation amid the growing Chinese challenge following their 2+2 virtual bilateral meeting. “China’s efforts to undermine the rules-based order presented political, economic and military challenges to the region and the world,” according to a joint statement issued by the two nations. The allies also discussed the Beijing-Taipei tensions in the meeting
5. Citigroup on Friday told its staff in the US that it would terminate the employees who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 as of January 14, enforcing a policy that was announced last year, according to reports. Their last day of employment will reportedly come at the month end. The company reportedly allowed the employees to apply for religious or medical exemptions
6. Sidney Poitier, Oscar winner and trailblazer for Black actors, dies at 94
The iconic actor broke racial barriers in Hollywood, becoming the first Black man to win an Oscar in 1964.
7. The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday released a list of 24 candidates who will contest the upcoming Uttarakhand elections. It has fielded its CM candidate Colonel Ajay Kothiyal from the Gangotri Assembly seat.
8. Sri Lankan authorities have started COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 12-15 on Friday. Under the vaccination program, each child will be given a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
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