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.