# India-Australia test series

• India beat Australia at brisbane test match and clinched the 4 match test series by the margin of 2-1.

• This is second consecutive win for India in the border-gavaskar trophy in Australia.

• Australia lost a test match at Gabba (brisbane) after a gap of 28 years.

# Budget session

• Budget session will see the return of question hour in parliament.

• Question hour was suspended in the monsoon session due to covid-19 protocols.

• Lok sabha speaker om birla also informed that the subsidy on food in parliament canteen will end and the food will be sold at the original price.

# Neighbourhood first policy

• India will begin to ship out lakhs of doses of the novel coronavirus vaccine to neighbouring countries from wednesday.

• The first batches will be send to Bhutan and maldives among several other countries as a grant or gift.

• Bhutan will receive the first shipment of 1,50,000 covishield vaccines on wednesday.

• Other south asian countries like Afghanistan, nepal, bangladesh and srilanka will also receive vaccines from India.

# Chinese covid-19 vaccines

• China has signed deals with as many as 20 countries related to export of covid-19 vaccines.

• It includes the country in south-east asia, like singapore, malaysia, thailand phillipines.

• Pakistan is the only country in Indian subcontinent to sign an agreement with china to import vaccines.

# S-400 training in moscow

• India prepares to receive the first batch of S-400 long range air defense system.

• Indian military specialists are scheduled to depart for moscow to undergo training courses on the S-400 – the russian embassy in India informed.

• The contract to buy S-400 is a $ 5.43 billion dollar deal which was signed in october 2018.