# Cairn energy

• There is a new development in the cairn energy dispute with India over the settlement of a $1.2 billion award from the Hague.

• Cairn energy said it has secured a French court order allowing it to freeze at least 20 Indian properties in central Paris.

• The government of India, however, denied all knowledge of the latest order.

• Government is trying to ascertain the facts, and whenever such an order is received, appropriate loyal remedies will be taken, in consultation with its counsels, to protect the interests of India.

# Facebook

• The supreme court on thursday upheld the authority of Delhi assembly’s peace and harmony committee to summon facebook.

• Facebook India’s senior official Ajit mohan has challenged a summon by Delhi assembly in connection with the february 2020 communal violence.

• Supreme court also said that it is difficult to accept the simplistic approach adopted by facebook – that it is merely a platform posting third party information and has no role in generating, controlling or modulating that information.

# New vaccine candidate

• Sanofi and GSK said they have received approval for their phase 3 clinical study in India, to assess the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of their covid-19 vaccine candidate.

• The global randomised double-blind phase 3 study will include more than 35000 volunteers aged 18 and older across sites in the US, Asia, Africa and Latin america.

# Afghanistan war

• Fighting erupted between Taliban and Afghan forces in North-western Badghis province.

• Qala-i-naw in Badghis province is the first regional capital to face an all out assault by the Taliban since the US stepped up its troop withdrawal.