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News Headlines-23/09/21

 News Headlines-

1.Australia's minister for trade and investment Dan Tehan said he will be visiting India next week to intensify discussions for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)."While in India, I will seek to further advance our recent progress towards a free trade agreement, or what is called the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, CECA," Tehan told news agency ANI.-hindustantimes.com

2.The Quad partnership is on track to produce at least a billion vaccine doses in India by 2022, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday, asserting that nothing is more urgent than working together to defeat COVID-19 so the world is much better prepared for future pandemics.-ndtv.com

3.Covishield is now an approved vaccine on the UK's revised guidelines for travel after a furious India warned of "reciprocal measures", but double-vaccinated Indians still have to quarantine because of "vaccination certification issues", according to UK officials.Officials have implied the problem is not Covishield but doubts over vaccine certification in India.-ndtv.com

4.The UK government has said that COVID-19 vaccine certification from all countries must meet a “minimum criteria" and that it is working with India on a “phased approach" to its international travel norms.-livemint.com

5.In the backdrop of India acquiring 30 Predator drones from US for muscling up over the horizon military capability, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting the head of armed drone manufacturer General Atomics along with four other top US company CEOs in Washington on September 23.-hindustantimes.com

6.Union minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said on Wednesday the Indian government is working with several countries to recognise its vaccine certification on a mutual reciprocal basis. This came on the day the UK added Covishield, the India-manufactured Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, to its list of approved vaccines.-hindustantimes.com

7.Hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a reference to Kashmir in his address to the UN General Assembly, external affairs minister S Jaishankar emphasised the need to adhere to the relevant UN Security Council resolutions in respect to Cyprus.-hindustantimes.com

8.As the ongoing farmers' protest against three contentious farm laws of the Centre completed 300 days on Wednesday, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) said the movement is a testimony to the will and determination of lakhs of farmers across the country that would only grow stronger.-Economic Times

9.The Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) of India  has introduced a new logo to identify vegan products in the country on Tuesday. Green in colour, it has a V inscribed in the middle with a small plant on top of it and Vegan written at the  brown dot in the middle of a square,  respectively, for vegetarian and non-vegetarian products. FSSAI.-hotelierindia.com

10.Concept Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. has opened its seventh hotel in Karnataka with The Fern Residency, Hubballi. With this new opening, the company’s overall count has extended to 83 operational hotels across the country and in Nepal and Seychelles.Suhail Kannampilly, CEO, Concept Hospitality-The Fern Hotels & Resorts said “We are delighted to bring our eco-friendly Fern brand to this historical city.-hotelierindia.com

11.Over 65% of people, who participated in a survey by travel portal MakeMyTrip from August 15 to September 15, were actively searching for international flights and hotels while 87% of those surveyed and aged between 30-35 years showed more enthusiasm to travel internationally before the year ends. Dubai (36%), Maldives (33%) and Switzerland (22%) were the top three destinations for leisure travellers.-hindustantimes.com

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