CURRENT AFFAIRS 28th DECEMBER

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December 28, 2020

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# 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.

 

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