At conference on 50 years of Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), External Affairs Minister underlines gaps in mechanisms and emphasised India’s commitment to global biosecurity.
India urgently needed to reach out to world capitals and engage with nations that were looking for an alternative to China. But the pandemic kept MEA occupied.
Over one year after the outbreak in Wuhan, and with an authoritarian Xi Jinping regime, no genuine probe on the coronavirus spread is possible in China.
China's secrecy, ambitions, and disregard for life or environment are a problem. But so are the weapons-producing labs in US, Russia, France, Japan, North Korea and others.
Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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