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Posted 26 Aug 2024

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Schedule M of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1945

Pharmaceutical Companies sought more time to implement revised manufacturing practices rules under Schedule M of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1945.

  • Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revised rules under Schedule M in January 2024 to align domestic good manufacturing practices (GMP) recommendations with global standards, particularly those of the WHO.

About Schedule M 

  • It prescribes the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for pharmaceutical products
    • GMPs are mandatory standards which build and bring quality into a product by way of control on materials, methods, machines, processes, etc.
    • GMP was first incorporated in Schedule M in 1988.
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  • Good Manufacturing Practices
  • Schedule M
  • Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1945

The Great Nicobar Project

Recently Environment Minister has clarified that Great Nicobar project will not affect the tribals.

The Great Nicobar Project 

  • Strategic Importance: The Great Nicobar project, involving a port, airport, power plant, and township, is of national, defense, and strategic significance.
  • Project costs:  Rs 72,000 crore
  • Transhipment Port Potential: strategically located near international shipping routes.
  • Tribal Safeguards: Provisions to protect the Shompen tribe; with a net increase in tribal reserve land.
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  • Environment
  • Great Nicobar Project

Marshyangdi River

A tourist bus plunged into the Marshyangdi River, killing at least 14 Indians. 

About Marshyangdi River

  • It is a snow-fed perennial Himalayan River in Nepal with a length of about 150 km. 
  • The Marshyangdi is a major tributary of the Gandaki River, which  joins the Ganga river at Hajipur near Patna.
    • The Gandaki River is known as the Narayani in the plains of Nepal and as the Gandak in India. 
  • It is famous for river rafting, and several hydro-projects have been constructed on the river.
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  • Marshyangdi River
  • Gandaki River

Atacama Salt Flat

A study by Researchers at the University of Chile found that Chile’s Atacama salt flat is sinking due to lithium brine extraction. 

About Atacama Salt Flat

  • Also known as Salar de Atacama, it is the biggest salt deposit in Chile
  • It has a rough white surface below which there is a large salt lake
    • Lake under the salt flat has one of the largest lithium reserves in the world. 
  • It lies in Chile’s Atacama Desert, probably the driest place on the planet. 
  • The northern part of the basin is the San Pedro River delta.
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  • Atacama Salt Flat
  • San Pedro River

Sonoluminescence

Pistol shrimp (family Alpheidae) exhibit Sonoluminescence by rapidly snapping their claws.

About Sonoluminescence:

  • It refers to the phenomenon of producing light through the irradiation of liquids with ultrasonic waves.
    • It is formed when bubbles formed by cavitation in liquids interact with powerful sound waves.
  • The alternating high and low pressure of sound waves leads to rapid expansion and contraction of bubbles.
    • This results in intense temperature rise, ionization of gases within the bubble and release of light energy
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  • Sonoluminescence
  • irradiation

Sonobuoys

Recently, the US approved potential sale of anti-submarine warfare Sonobuoys and related equipment to India.

About Sonobuoys

  • They are expendable, electro-mechanical Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) tactical sonar systems, transmitting information about submarine activity.
  • They use a transducer and a radio transmitter to record and transmit underwater sounds.
  • 3-types: 
    • Passive sonobuoys: Use underwater microphone to listen for sound energy from a target; 
    • Active sonobuoy: Use a transducer to send an acoustic signal and then listen for the return echo off an object; and
    • Special Purpose buoys: Provide additional information about the environment, such as water temperature or wave height.
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  • Anti-Submarine Warfare
  • Sonobuoys

Scrub Typhus

Recently, Chief Minister of Meghalaya tested positive for Scrub Typhus.

About Scrub Typhus

  • Also known as bush typhus, it is a disease caused by bacteria called Orientia Tsutsugamushi.
  • It is spread to people through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites).
  • Symptoms: Fever, headache, body aches, and rash, a scab-like region at the chigger bite site (eschar) etc.
  • No vaccine is available for scrub typhus.
  • Most cases of scrub typhus occur in rural areas of South East Asia, China, Indian subcontinent, Northern Australia, etc.
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  • Scrub Typhus
  • Orientia Tsutsugamushi

Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha AbhiyaN (PM-JANMAN)

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is running a nationwide campaign for the PM-JANMAN

PM JANMAN

  • Launched to provide PVTG households and habitations with basic facilities such as safe housing, clean drinking water etc. in 3 years.
  • Aims to cover 75 PVTG communities residing in 18 States and 1 UT.
  • Total budgetary outlay: Rs.24,104 Cr 
  • It focuses on 11 critical interventions being implemented by 9 Ministries such as Pucca houses ,connecting roads by the Ministry of Rural Development.
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  • PVTG
  • Government Scheme
  • PM-JANMAN
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