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  PM Modi received a call from the Canadian Prime Minister in which he informed about his country’s requirement of Coronavirus vaccines from India. Prime Minister Modi on February 10, 2021, held a telephonic conversation with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and assured that India will do its best in supporting Canada’s COVID-19 Vaccination efforts. According to the PMO release, PM Modi received a call from the Canadian Prime Minister in which he informed about his country’s requirement of Coronavirus vaccines from India. While expressing his appreciation for India, the Prime Minister of Canada mentioned that if the world will be able to conquer the pandemic, it will be because of the tremendous pharmaceutical capabilities of India and PM Modi’s leadership in sharing this capacity with the world. India to support Canada’s vaccination efforts: PM Modi thanked Prime Minister Trudeau for his sentiments. While sharing the news on Twitter, Prime Minister informed that he assured his

  The Indian delegation, during the video conferencing with the Chinese Officials, briefed them about India’s priorities during its UNSC tenure. India and China on February 9, 2021, held bilateral talks on issues on the agenda of the UN Security Council amid the military standoff on the Line of Actual Control- LAC. As per the release by the Ministry of External Affairs, during the meeting, the Chinese delegation was led by the Director-General of International Organizations and Conferences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Yang Tao. While the Indian delegation was led by Prakash Gupta, Joint Secretary (UNP & Summits) along with the officials from East Asia and UN Economic and Social Divisions of MEA, from the Permanent Mission of India New York and Embassy of India in Beijing. India had begun a two-year stint as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council earlier in February 2021. UNSC agenda discussed between India and China: The Indian delegation, during th

  The US will rejoin the UNHRC three years after the former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the global body.  The United States President Joe Biden has moved to rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council- UNHRC three years after the former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the global body. This move is another reversal by Biden of Trump’s administration. The Trump administration had withdrawn from the world’s most significant human rights body in 2018 over what Trump and his allies called unfair targeting of Israel. Reversing other decisions of former US President, Joe Biden has also joined the World Health Organisation and Paris Climate Accord which the Trump administration withdrew from while he was in office. As per the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the decision of the Trump administration of withdrawing from UNHRC in 2018 did nothing to encourage meaningful change. It instead created a vacuum of US leadership which the nations with authoritarian agendas ha

  The WHO team has dismissed the theory of a ‘lab leak’ of the virus and concluded that it most probably got transmitted to humans via an intermediary species. After a 12-day visit to Wuhan in China to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus, the team of the World Health Organisation on February 9, 2021, dismissed the theory of a ‘lab leak’ of the virus and concluded that it most probably got transmitted to humans via an intermediary species. Head of the WHO-led team, Dr. Peter Ben Embarek informed about the assessment and mentioned that the initial findings suggest that the interaction to humans through an intermediary host species is the most likely pathway. It will now require more studies and more specific targeted research. As the World Health Organisation team has been wrapping up their long visit to Wuhan, the investigation has for sure uncovered new information but still has not changed the picture of the outbreak. What were the four key hypotheses for the origin of virus