northern and the southern parts of the enclave.
This action involves the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group.
The ceasefire was started by January 19, 2025, which halted the war.
It enabled movement of Palestinians to their homeland especially in the wrecked north.
The truce has contributed to the exchange and freeing of some of the hostages by the Hamas.
Matrimoines in China 2024
The rate of new marriages in the year 2024 hit the lowest point in the history of China.
Last year, only 6.1 million couples registered their marriages, the sharp decrease of 20.5 percent in comparison to the previous year 2023.
That is the lowest amount since the ministry started issuing such data in 1986.
The figure of marriages constituted fewer than half the 13 million seen to be registered last 2013.
In the meantime, the separation continued only to be slightly higher than the marriage rate with approximately 2.6 million couples filing divorce, an addition of 28,000 compared to previous year.
It is the third year that China is facing population shrinkage and despite the sporadic rise in the birth rate last year.
In 2024, there was a declining working age population (16+ to 59 years) of 6.83 million.
There were still more individuals aged above 60 and they comprised 22 percent of the population.
Space station of first deep-sea water
A deep-sea research facility can transform the marine exploration as approved in China.
The trading card, “The cold seep ecosystem research facility will be positioned 2000 meters (6560 feet) deep in the South china sea, which is of strategic importance.
The facility will rank amongst the highest form of scientific underwater facility, as it will be technologically advanced.
China will become the third nation in the world to construct and be in possession of a deep space space station after the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
The NR-1 was a Decommissioned nuclear-powered submarine built by Jacksonville, Florida USA and became the American deep-sea space station.
The Russian AS-12- Losharik submarine that operated on a nuclear reactor had descended to 2000 meters.
In 2019, the Russians abandoned it following the massive fire.
USA-Tobin Tax
The administration of Trump is also planning to implement Tobin Tax on capital movements that may interfere with the international financial markets.
The implementation of the Tobin concept of a 0.0005 percent charge on currency trade in an international market might generate the vast sums of money and probably would not dampen the trade and flows.
Tobin tax is a tax levied on foreign exchange with the intention of reducing short-term trading activities that are characterized with speculative profits.
James Tobin, a Nobel Prize winning economist proposed it in 1972 in reaction to the fluctuations of the currency markets since the break down of the bretton woods system.
The STT -Securities Transaction Tax of India - (2004) is a Tobin-like, tax on the stock market transaction.
Sudan virus outbreak
An outbreak of Sudan virus disease among the Ugandans was reported by the WHO and Ugandan government recently.
It is a serious and primarily deadly disease whose levels of fatality lie between 41 and 100 percent.
There have been seven earlier outbreaks in Uganda and the latest is in the year 2022.
In 2022, an outbreak of a Sudan virus outbreak also in Uganda caused 164 cases and 77 deaths (a fatality rate of 47%).
Treatment or vaccines against the Sudan virus do not exist.
Both the Sudan and Ebola viruses have belonged to the same orthoebolavirus family however differ in proteins and genetic constituents.
The TRUST programme
India and US will increase the transfer of technology, eliminate trade barriers, and improve high tech trade between the countries under the Under the TRUST initiative.
The name TRUST is an abbreviation of another one, namely, Transforming Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technology.
This is a two-sided arrangement between cooperation in recovering and processing critical minerals, which comprises lithium and rare earth elements (REEs).
The TRUST initiative with its push to establish resistic supply chains in the pharma would target active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) most of which are reliant on critical minerals such as lithium magnesium, zinc and selenium.
In 2023, India has become a member of Minerals Security Partnership (MSP).
MSP is a US-deepened initiative of 14 countries to mobilise public and private investment into the critical minerals supply chains.
ASIA for Underwater Domain Awareness
US and India launched new initiative — Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance (ASIA)
The initiative is designed to increase industry resources and production in the Indo-Pacific.
A small number of these UDA technologies have been offered by the United States for cooperative commercial co-production and co-development.
The US defence industry has offered to work with India on these sensitive technologies, which stands as amilestone.
Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA): The underwater domain awareness (UDA) is the ability of a nation or an institution to watch, identify, and discern activities carried out below the surface of any water bodies such as oceans and seas.
It is essential to the safety of life at sea, cleaner seas and economic