# Pakistan

• Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down national Assembly Deputy speaker Qasim Suri’s move to dismiss a no – confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
• In a major blow to cricketer turned politician, supreme Court also ordered the restoration of parliament, which Imran Khan had dissolved.
• Chief justice Bandiyal, who is heading a five member bench, declared the decision of deputy speaker as unconstitutional.
• Deputy speaker Suri had dismissed a no confidence motion against Imran Khan government, calling the motion as a foreign conspiracy to bring down Imran government.
• In an unanimous verdict, the bench also declared dissolution of Parliament as unconstitutional.

# Indigenisation list

• Defence minister Rajnath singh on Tuesday released the third positive indigenisation list of 101 pieces of equipment and platforms, which the services can procure only from the domestic industry.
• The list includes Naval utility helicopters, light tanks, small unmanned aerial vehicles and anti – ship missiles.

# Russia

• Russia’s membership to the United Nations Human rights Council, to which it was elected in 2020, was suspended on Thursday.
• United Nations General assembly voted 93 to 24, with 58 Abstaintions, including India, to adopt a resolution suspending Moscow from the UN body.
• The resolution was proposed by a group of countries that included Ukraine, the US, the EU and several latin American countries.
• The resolution needed a two third majority of those present and voting for adoptions.
• Abstentions do not count in the category of present and voting.

# Tata group

• Tata group on Thursday unveiled possibly India’s first super app, Tata Neu.
• This app brings together from grocery to hotel to airline tickets booking and medicine buying on a single platform.