Quad senior officials’ meet: Appreciated Vietnamese chairmanship of ASEAN December 22, 2020, 12:30 PM IST
S D Pradhan has served as chairman of India s Joint Intelligence Committee. He has also been the country s deputy national security adviser. He was chairman of the Task Force on Intelligence Mechanism (2008-2010), which was constituted to review the functioning of the intelligence agencies. He has taught at the departments of defence studies and history at the Punjabi University, Patiala. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, US, in the department of arms control and disarmament studies. The ministry of defence had utilized his services for the preparation of official accounts of the 1971 war and the counterinsurgency operations in the northeast. In the JIC/National Security Council secretariat, he was closely involved with the preparation of the reports of the Kargil Review Committee and the Group of Ministers on national security
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How Vietnam fought a pandemic and won
By Phan Anh December 22, 2020 | 06:43 am GMT+7
A street in Hanoi is disinfected on March 7, 2020 after the city s first coronavirus case was confirmed the previous night. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.
A year has passed since the world knew about the existence of Covid-19 and nations were brought to their knees.
The pandemic has wreaked havoc in over 200 countries and territories, infecting around 77 million people and killing over 1.7 million.
Even major powers like the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia, and India have seen first-hand how a virus could infect a population rapidly, overwhelming hospitals and forcing governments to impose lengthy lockdowns in the hope of keeping the infection at bay.
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Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chairs a government meeting in this photo supplied by the Vietnam Government Portal.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked relevant authorities to support domestic efforts in manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines besides sourcing foreign shots.
The orientation was stated by the prime minister during his presiding over a government meeting on Monday.
Phuc assigned the Ministry of Heath as the leader of a consortium including the Ministry of Science and Technology and relevant agencies, whose responsibility is evaluating the vaccine manufacturing capacity of domestic firms to provide them with timely assistance.
The premier also tasked the health ministry with compiling the results and knowledge from the clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines in other countries, which would help accelerate the clinical test of Nanocovax – Vietnam’s first homegrown jab.
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Vietnam s export growth this year has been impressive thanks to the signing and approving of many free trade agreements (FTAs), reflecting the success of the country s steady and flexible international integration process.
Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Vietnam Giorgio Aliberti adjusted his red tie, smiled and raised his hand to journalists at the headquarters of the EU delegation at Hanoi’s Lotte building. He had just left the meeting room of the Vietnamese National Assembly, where a few minutes earlier, on June 8, 2020 the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) was passed.