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Posted 04 Mar 2024

Updated 27 Mar 2024

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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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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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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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