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As of 2021, leaders in all four countries have become more aligned in their shared concerns about China’s increasingly assertive behavior in the region and are more willing to define a constructive agenda of cooperation. All four navies participated in their first joint exercise in over a decade in November 2020. And in March 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden convened a virtual Quad meeting attended by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. They formed working groups on COVID-19 vaccines, climate change, and technological innovation and supply-chain resilience.
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A virtual court in Dhaka placed Rafiqul Islam Madani, widely known as "Shishu Bokta", on a three-day remand today in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the March 26 violence in Dhaka centering Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit. Metropolitan Magistrate Debdash Chandra Adhikary passed the order after the Sub-Inspector of Paltan Police Station Md Zahidul Alam,