# Covid-19 vaccine

• Russia’s covid-19 vaccine sputnik v has been recommended for emergency use authorisation in India following a meeting of the subject expert committee on monday.

• If approved by the drug controller general of India (DCGI), sputnik v would be the third vaccine to be made available in India.

• The lancet study had reported a efficacy of 91.6% for the sputnik- v vaccine.

# Sensex and rupee

• The bombay stock exchange sensex tanked 1708 points or 3.44% driven by the fear of fresh pandemic effect.

• Also, the value of rupee crossed the 75 mark against the dollar on monday.

• As per official data inflations surged and the industrial output has collapsed sharply.

# ICSSR

• Indian council of social sciences and research has published a report on the discrimination faced by persons of north-east.

• The cause of the discrimination has been admitted by 78% of persons, who were interviewed as the ” resemblance of appearance to the chinese”.

• The study was conducted by centre for criminology and victimology at the national law university, Delhi.

# Military exercise

• Multinational military exercise shantir ogrosena underway in Bangladesh for the past 10 days concluded on monday.

•  Army chief general manoj naravane, who is on a visit to the neighbouring country, witnessed the validation phase of the exercise.

• The armies participating in the exercise were the Indian army, Royal bhutanese army, srilankan army and  bangladesh army.

# China-srilanka relations

• China on monday signed a $150 million loan agreement with srilanka.

• Srilanka hopes to boost its foreign reserves that are under severe strain since the pandemic last year.

• This is the second installment of $ 1 billion loan sought by srilanka last year.

• Also, Beijing based Asian infrastructure investment bank also sanctioned srilanka’s request for a $ 150 million loan in february.