✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Air India Resumes US Flights After 5G Rollout Cancellations
Air India has resumed B777 operations to the country on Thursday after approval from the US authority, said Airline officials. Air India cancelled 14 flights on India-US routes from Wednesday onwards due to deployment of 5G internet in North America which could interfere with aircraft’s navigation systems
2. PM Modi will host the first meeting of the India-Central Asia Summit with the participation of the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in a virtual format on January 27.
3. International Flight Ban in India: The suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in India has been extended till February 28, 2022, as per DGCA
4. India and Sri Lanka have extended the existing Science and Technology cooperation for three more years, with focus on new areas like waste-water technologies, sustainable agriculture, aerospace engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence. The decision was taken during the 5th Joint Committee meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation between India and Sri Lanka
5. National Security Policy of Pakistan (2022-2026)
On 14 January, the Government of Pakistan published the public version of the country’s first-ever National Security Policy document. This is a 50-page document meant for the public while the complete 110-page document would still remain classified. The document has identified a number of areas, each of which has been included with opportunities and challenges and the policy initiative of the Government for overcoming the same.
Defence and Territorial Integrity.
This section in the document makes a note of conventional military threats faced by the country due to the current Indian government’s aggressive policies and intentions along with the need to secure borders, ensuring freedom of navigating in international waters, its intention of investing in space-based technology, the risk with cyber security and hybrid warfare threats. The policy objectives of the State of Pakistan continue to be to maintain territorial integrity, ensure the military has the capability to deter any external threat, improve its existing space-based technology and augment cyber security competencies.
The National Security Policy document aims to bridge the gap in approaching traditional and non-traditional security threats by bringing it all under one umbrella so that a comprehensive security policy could be designed for the country. Nevertheless, this ambitious effort of Pak PM Imran Khan like his other policies has faced criticism from the opposition for not being consulted. The central focus on improving economic security is quite visible and clear from the document and it remains to be seen how the current government manages to implement the envisioned policy objectives in its remaining term.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Russia accuses West of plotting ‘provocations’ in Ukraine
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has accused the West of plotting “provocations” in Ukraine.
She alleged that Ukrainian and Western claims of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine were a “cover for staging large-scale provocations of their own, including those of military character”. “They may have extremely tragic consequences for the regional and global security,” she added.
2. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (CBRF) on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory. CBRF cited threats to financial stability, citizens’ wellbeing and the country’s monetary policy sovereignty as reasons for the proposed ban. The bank also proposed preventing financial institutions from carrying out any operation with cryptocurrencies.
3. French farming ministry has said that 2.5 million birds are needed to be killed as a precautionary measure as the southwest of the country is facing several outbreaks of bird flu. Around 1.2 million animals have already been culled, it said. Reportedly, previous bird flu outbreaks in Asia and Europe led to the culling of tens of millions of birds.
4. New York: A statue of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt on Wednesday was removed from outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The statue, known as ‘Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt’ depicts an African man and a Native American man on foot beside Roosevelt on a horse, which has been previously criticized as a symbol of racism and colonialism
5. BANGLADESH: The three day long National Dance Festival inaugurated at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSKA) auditorium in Dhaka. The National Dance Festival will feature original dance compositions by 75 troupes drawn from across the country.
6. Three killed, 23 injured in blast at Lahore’s Anarkali Bazaar area, Pakistan. it has not yet been determined whether it was an improvised explosive device (IED) or a timed device.
7. 19-yr-old Zara Rutherford becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the world Nineteen-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching her small airplane down in western Belgium on Thursday, 155 days after she departed. She landed two months later than planned as a result of adverse weather. The circumnavigation included more than 60 stops across five continents.
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