World and International News – 29 December 2021

india to chair unsc counter terrorism committee in january 2022

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. India will chair the Counter-Terrorism Committee of UNSC in January 2022 after 10 years. The Counter-Terrorism Committee was established by Security Council resolution 1373 adopted unanimously on 28 September 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks in the US.

2. The Committee was tasked with monitoring implementation of resolution 1373 which requested countries to implement a number of measures aimed at enhancing their legal and institutional ability to counter terrorist activities at home and around the world.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. Bangladesh started the booster dose of COVID 19 vaccination in Dhaka on a limited scale from Tuesday. A few hospitals in Dhaka started administering the Pfizer vaccine jab for people above the age of 60 who had earlier received two doses of the vaccine.

2. France has announced tighter Covid restrictions amid concerns over the Omicron variant. From 3 January, remote working will become compulsory for those who can, and public gatherings will be limited to 2,000 people for indoor events.

3. Indonesia will lift a ban on the Boeing 737 MAX, the Southeast Asian country’s transportation ministry said. three years after local carrier Lion Air lost one of the planes in a fatal crash during a routine domestic flight 189 people were killed when the flight plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff in October 2018.

4. Leading conservation biologist, Thomas Lovejoy passed away at 80. Credited with coining the term ‘biological diversity’, he was a strong advocate for tropical rainforests and helped run a Brazilian project to protect vulnerable forests. Lovejoy studied rainforest birds in the Amazon on a grant given by the National Geographic Society in 1971. He also founded the Amazon Biodiversity Center.

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