# Pakistan

• On a day of high drama, Pakistan’s national assembly speaker Asad Qaiser and Deputy speaker Qasim Suri resigned ob Saturday night with minutes left for the Supreme Court directed deadline to hold a no-trust vote against prime minister Imran Khan’s government.
• The crucial session of the house began at 10:30 am with speaker Asad Qaiser, a senior member of the Imran Khan’s party in chair.
• Since then, the session was adjourned four times for the one reason or another.
• The voting on no-confidence motion had started just before the end of deadline.
• The house was chaired by Ayaz sadiq of the Nawaz sharif’s party PMLN.

# Vaccine prices

• Pharma majors Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech on Saturday announced a steep reduction in prices of their Covid-19 vaccines – Covishield and Covaxin.
• Union health ministry also capped the service charges for the precautionary doses at ₹150.
• Serum Institute of India has decided to revise the price of Covishield vaccine for private hospitals from ₹600 to ₹225 per dose.
• Bharat biotech has decided to revise the prices of Covaxin from ₹1200 to ₹225 per dose.

# Home ministry

• The Union home ministry has designated Hafiz talha saeed, son of Hajiz Mohammed saaed, chief of the Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-taiba, as a terrorist under the Unlawful activities prevention act.
• So far, 32 people have been designated as the terrorist in the country.
• The LeT chief was the first among the four to be so designated under the amended UAPA in 2019.
• The 1967 act, amended in 2019, empowered the ministry to designate individuals as terrorists.

# Sugar output

• The Indian sugar mills association (ISMA) estimates sugar production this season, which will end in September, to be 350 lakh tonnes.
• Production till march 31,2022 since October 1 was 310 lakh tonnes.