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 security for all coastal state.
Treaty of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of 2025
This is the signing of a general cooperation agreement between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and that of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian.
This wide-ranging strategic partnership treaty” embraces all spheres -– trade and military cooperation, science,