# Galwan clash

• China said on friday for the first time that it had lost four soldiers in the galwan valley clash.

• This engagement by PLA  is made 8 months after the clash.

• Disengagement at pangong Tso is completed.

• The 10th Round of talks will be held in moldo on the chinese side on saturday for further disengagement at other friction points.

# Appeal against cairn

• The Indian government is likely to file an appeal against the $1.4 billion international arbitration award won by cairn energy in tax dispute.

• The government said it wants to defend its sovereign rights in taxation.

• Earlier, cairn energy had said that it wants to initiate a legal action to recover the amount through seizure of Indian assets overseas.

# Gold price

• Physical gold demand in India this week surged as local prices dropped to their lowest since june last year.

• The gold demand is also expected to pick up in other asian centres after the chinese lunar new year holiday week.

• Dealers were charging a premium of upto $7 an ounce over official domestic price, the highest in eight months.

# 1 crore vaccine doses

• India had surpassed one crore cummulative covid-19 vaccine doses administered to healthcare and frontline workers.

• It took 34 days to reach this milestone in India.

• India is the 2nd fastest country in the world after US to reach this milestone.

• Eight states accounted for 57.47% of the total doses administered across the nation.

# class vi textbook

• The department of public instruction (DPI) in karnataka had decided to withdraw two pages from a lesson, “birth of new religion”.

• It was a part of class vi social studies textbook.

• The content talked about some practices during the later vedic period.