Belt and Road Initiative China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to strengthen Beijing’s economic leadership through a vast program of infrastructure building throughout China’s neighbouring regions. Launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the vast collection of development and …
Context The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has posed numerous challenges before India on multiple fronts –health, economy and also the environment and one such impact of the Covid outbreak on our environment is the exponential increase in biomedical …
CONTEXT In order to achieve global herd immunity and prevent new strains of COVID-19 from emerging, possibly for years to come, vaccines need to be affordable and available in massive quantities throughout the globe. TO ENSURE VACCINE AFFORDABILITY AND AVAILABILITY …
Why in News? The first destroyer of the Indian Navy, INS Rajput is set to be decommissioned. About INS Rajput INS Rajput, the lead ship of the Kashin-class destroyers built by the erstwhile USSR, was commissioned in 1980. The ship …