Bilateral Relations

AstraZeneca Pharma India Ltd said it has received an approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for the cancer drug trastuzumab deruxtecan for treatment of metastatic breast cancer. The company has been granted approval to import and market trastuzumab deruxtecan used in the treatment of select “HER-2 positive” breast cancer. Globally, trastuzumab deruxtecan is approved in more than 40 countries, including …

Bangladesh seeks India’s help over Rohingya Bangladesh urged India to take more effective steps in persuading Myanmar to take back the Rohingya who were forced to take refuge in Bangladesh to evade persecution. Who are the Rohingya? The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority group. They have lived for centuries in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar. The Rohingya are not recognized as an …

While countries have tried to dethrone the dollar as the global reserve currency for many decades now for various reasons, of late such attempts have picked up pace in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. What is De-dollarisation? De-dollarisation refers to the replacement of the U.S. dollar by other currencies as the global reserve currency. A reserve …

Researchers have traced a very significant increase in special continuous oscillations with pearl-type structures called Geomagnetic Pc1 pearl oscillations on the surface of the Earth in the recovery phase of geomagnetic storms. This study is significant for investigating of precipitation particles during geomagnetic storms and can help us understand the radiation hazard to satellites and astronauts. Earth’s …

One zoonotic illness where spillover events appear to have increased, resulting in recurring outbreaks, is Kyasanur forest disease (KFD) or monkey fever. The illness is named after Kyasanur forest in the Western Ghats, where it originated. It is a haemorrhagic fever borne by the tick, Haemaphysalis spinigera. It has a fatality rate of 3-5 per cent. It causes acute febrile hemorrhagic illness in humans and monkeys especially …

Launromat report was released recently. China, India, Turkey, the UAE and Singapore. They buy Russian oil and sell processed products to European countries, thus side-stepping European sanctions against Russia India leads the laundromat countries, according to the report. European Union (EU) countries which are all part of the price cap coalition. The price-cap coalition countries include the European Union, G7 countries, Australia and …

Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, Armenia and Iran held the first trilateral political consultations in Yerevan Key Details The three countries had a wide range of discussions on: Economic issues Regional communication Trilateral cooperation in various fields Armenia and India In 2022, both the countries celebrated 30 years …

Hundreds of prisoners captured during the war in Yemen were reunited with their families amid diplomatic efforts to halt the conflict. The prisoner swap: The main warring sides in Yemen are the Iran-backed Houthis and the pro-Yemen government, Saudi-led coalition. The two opposing sides had agreed to release 887 detainees. The large-scale prisoner swap has given the …

The 10th edition of exercise SLINEX-23 is scheduled at Colombo. Key details: It is a bilateral maritime exercise between India-Sri Lanka. The exercise is being conducted in two phases: the Harbour Phase a Sea Phase. Indian Navy is being represented by INS Kiltan, an indigenous Kamorta class ASW corvette and INS Savitri, an Offshore Patrol Vessel. The previous edition of SLINEX was conducted …

After the Chinese government released a list of “standardised” names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian authorities rejected the move “outright”. China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs put out names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh in Chinese, Tibetan and pinyin characters which includes: two land areas, two residential areas, five mountain peaks and two rivers. Is this the …