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  • India Donates 15 Tonnes Of Aid To Cambodia For Flood Relief

    In a novel gesture guided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India donated ‘15 tons of flood relief’ material containing 3,000 flood relief kits along with Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) to Cambodia, said the Indian mission in Cambodia on December 30. According to the statement shared on Twitter, the aid was delivered by INS Kiltan and was received by Hang Samoeun, Permanent Vice President of the National Committee for Disaster Management, on behalf of the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. 

    The Indian Naval Ship Kiltan arrived at Sihanoukville Port, Cambodia on December 29 as part of the ‘friendly, goodwill’ Mission SAGAR III or Security And Growth for All in the Region by PM Modi. The 110-metre-long, 13-metre-wide and 7-metre-deep Indian naval ship with 200 crew members is set to leave Cambodia on January 1, 2021.  

  • With Aim To reinforce maritime Interoperability, India, Vietnam Concludes Naval Exercise

    The two-day Naval passage exercise in the South China Sea in order to boost maritime cooperation between India and Vietnam culminated on Sunday, December 27. In an online post, the Indian Navy spokesperson highlighted that the ‘PASSEX’ exercise was aimed at reinforcing maritime Interoperability and jointness. The drill comes at a time when Beijing repeatedly sends its military ships in the South China Sea in a bid to assert its claim on the contested area.

    According to a Press release, Indian Navy ship INS Kiltan was sent to the central Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh last week and participated in the joint drill on its way back. INS Kiltan, which arrived in the flood-hit central Vietnam on December 24 carried 15 tons of relief material. Since October, Vietnam has been devastated with floods which have now led to over 230 fatalities.

    The relief package sent to Vietnam was a part of Mission Sagar III, which comes under Prime Minster’s Sagar act ( Security and growth of all-region). The mission not only strengthens the bond between two nations, but also reiterates India’s position as a dependable partner, ANI reported. It also established the Indian Navy as first responders and preferred security partner.

  •  Rahane makes a statement as he looks to stabilise Indian ship

    Ajinkya Rahane might not be an extrovert like Virat Kohli, but he too knows how to give it back to the opposition both on the field and off it. After Australian coach Justin Langer said that he would like to put some pressure on India’s stand-in captain, Rahane said he would let the Australians play mind games and would continue to focus on his team and its individuals.

    “Australians are very good at playing mind games and I will let them do that. We are focussing on ourselves, what we want to do as a unit and we are going to back our every individuals,” Rahane said on the eve of the match.

    He was very clear that he wouldn’t take any additional pressure of captaining the team but will make the most of this opportunity. “It is a proud moment for me leading India, obviously it is a great opportunity, responsibility as well but I don’t want to take any pressure.

    “I think what I want to do is back my team. So focus is not on me, it is all about team and how we want to do well as a team. We are focussing on that,” the middle order batsman said.

  • UPS, FedEx working side-by-side to ship to ship Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines in US

    Rival US companies UPS and FedEx are working side-by-side to ship the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, after it was approved for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday.

    The two shipping companies said that they had put plans, which they had been working for months, into action after the coronavirus vaccine received emergency use authorisation, reported The New York Times.

    During a news conference on Saturday, General Gustave F Perna, the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to bring a market, said that the boxes were being packed at Pfizer’s plant in Michigan, and would be shipped to UPS and FedEx distribution hubs, where they would be dispersed to 636 locations around the country.


    Perna specified that 145 sites would receive the vaccine on Monday, 425 on Tuesday and 66 on Wednesday.

    UPS said that the company expects to start transporting the Covid-19 vaccine as soon as Sunday morning when employees stationed at Pfizer’s facility in Michigan will affix special Bluetooth- and radio-enabled tracking tags to each shipment, reported The New York Times.

    “This is the moment we’ve been waiting for… We’ve been planning for months with daily calls, drilling down to really quite minute details,” said Wes Wheeler, president of the company’s health care division, in an interview on Saturday.

    “You have two fierce rivals here, and competitors, in FedEx and UPS, who literally are teaming up to get this delivered,” said Richard Smith, a FedEx executive, to the Senate’s Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety on Thursday.