India completed 100 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, in about nine months since the drive began.
Prime minister Narendra Modi expressed his gratitude to doctors , nurses and all those who worked on crossing the milestone.
WHO president Mr. Tedros also congratulated the country on completing this milestone.
# EWS Quota
The supreme court on Thursday asked the government if it wants to revisit the limit of 8 lakh rupees annual income fixed for determining the economically weaker sections (EWS) category for reservation.
Supreme court has asked for the criteria, which government adopted to fix this threshhold of 8 lakh rupees.
# Climate change summit
Prime minister Narendra Modi will travel to Glasgow on October 31 to attend the UN climate change conference (COP26).
PM Modi and UK PM Boris Johnson are expected to jointly launch the “one world, one solar, one grid” initiative at the Summit where atleast 120 world leaders will be present.
# India-UK relations
United kingdom’s carrier strike group gets ready for one of the biggest joint exercises – Konkan Shakti, with India’s armed forces.
British navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will also participate.
# FATF
The Financial action task force (FATF) on Thursday retained Pakistan in the greylist.
FATF has also added Mali, Jordan and Turkey to its greylist.
# Donald trump
Former US president Donald Trump, banned from social media platforms facebook and Twitter has announced that he is launching a social media company Truth social.
The platform will be made available via the merger of TMTG and Digital world acquisition group.