# Afghan peace talks

• The next round of negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghanistan government will be held in Qatar from 5th jan next month.

• Afghan peace talks began on September 12 in Doha, but negotiations are currently on a break till jan 5.

• President Ashraf ghani has requested to shift the negotiations from Doha to Afghanistan but the proposal has not been accepted by taliban.

# Mass vaccination in European union

• Europe launched a massive vaccination driven on sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to take the first shot of Covid-19 vaccine.

• European countries were the first to approve the Pfizer vaccine, even before United States.

• European countries has decided to vaccinate the priority group first. The priority group is similar to what it is in India.

# China in Nepal

• A high level diplomatic team led by vice minister of the International Department of the Communist party of china, Guo Yezhoo arrived in Kathmandu on sunday.

• This high level team will hold a dialogue with the two factions of the Nepal communist party.

• This is seen by many analysts in Nepal as the china meddling in the internal politics of Nepal.

# Pneumonia vaccine

• The first indigenous vaccine against pneumonia has been developed by Serum institute of India.

• It will be launched by union health minister Dr. Harsh vardhan on monday.

• According to sources, vaccine will be much more affordable than the existing ones manufactured by two foreign companies.

• In july, India’s drug regulator had granted market approval for the ” PNEUMOCOCCAL POLYSACCHARIDE CONJUGATE” vaccine.

# ICC teams of the decade

• Mahendra singh dhoni was on sunday named captain of ICC’s ODI and T20I teams of the decade.

• Virat Kohli was voted as the skipper of the test team.

• Indians dominates the limited overs teams by having three in ODIs and four players in T20Is. England has four in the test side.