Tripartite Agreement in Tripura
- Government of India, Government of Tripura and The Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) & and other stakeholders signed a tripartite agreement.
- Agreement aims to amicably resolve all issues of indigenous people of Tripura relating to history, land and political rights, economic development, identity, culture and language.
- It will also constitute a Joint Working Group/Committee to implement mutually agreed points and directs all stakeholders to refrain from resorting to any form of protest/agitation.
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Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP)
- Nicaragua becomes the first Spanish-speaking nation to recognize IP.
- IP is recognized as the official book of standards for the drugs being manufactured and/or marketed in India.
- IP is published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules 1945 thereunder.
- About IPC: An autonomous institution under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, created to deal with matters relating to the timely publication of the IP.
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- Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP)
- Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission
- Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
Dual-use Goods
- Indian Security agencies detained a vessel over suspicion of dual-use consignment.
- Dual-use Goods
- Goods that can have both civilian and military applications, such as chemical substances, nuclear materials, etc.
- Dual-use items are categorized as Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies (SCOMET) under Foreign Trade Policy, 2023.
- Export of dual-use items is either prohibited or permitted under an Authorization, unless specifically exempted.
- It is also regulated under Wassenaar Arrangement.
- Wassenaar Arrangement: Voluntary multilateral export control regime for conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies.
- It has 42 members, including India.
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- Wassenaar Arrangement
- SCOMET
- Foreign Trade Policy, 2023
Cavum Cloud
- NASA shares a picture of the 'Cavum cloud' formed above the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Florida.
- About Cavum Cloud
- They are also called hole-punch clouds or fallstreak holes,
- They are formed when planes fly through banks of altocumulus clouds,
- Altocumulus clouds are mid-level clouds that have supercooled (below the freezing point of water but still liquid) water droplets.
- As air moves around the plane, a process called adiabatic expansion can make the droplets freeze into ice crystals.
- The ice crystals eventually grow heavy and fall out of the sky, leaving a hole in the cloud layer.
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