India and China have reached an agreement on disengagement in the pangong lake area.
The chinese side will keep its troop presence in the north bank area to east of of finger 8 and Indian side will keep its troop at finger 3.
The coordinated disengagement will be done in the south bank as well.
# Self regulatory toolkit
The government is soon expected to come out with regulations for OTT platforms.
Prior to that, the Internet and mobile associations of India (IAMAI) on thursday said that 17 platforms, including netflix, disney+, hotstar have adopted a “toolkit” for effective implementation of the self regulation code introduced last year.
# Vaccination in Delhi
A total of 15,807 beneficiaries, healthcare and frontline workers took the covid-19 vaccination in the city on Thursday.
The number of people vaccinated on thursday was 62.4% of the daily target of 25,300.
Of the total beneficiaries, 12,933 (81.8%) were frontline workers and 2874 healthcare workers.
The trend shows that frontline workers are keener than healthcare workers to get the vaccine jab.
# Revised airfare bands
Air travel has become costlier, with the union government on thursday increasing the minimum and maximum fares on airline can levy on given route with immediate effect.
The minimum fare on each route has gone up by 10% and the maximum by 30%, according to the order issued by the civil aviation ministry.
The government has been regulating airfares from may 25,2020, when domestic flights resumed after the nationwide lockdown.
These revised airfare bands will be mandatory till march 31.
# Accesible India campaign
Less than 7% of public buses in the country were fully accesible to wheelchair users.
The target set by government of India under accesible India campaign was 25% of buses will be wheelchair accessible by june 2022.
Of the 44768 buses operating in urban areas, only 22.3% are fully wheelchair accessible.