List of Prohibited Drugs in India

Drugs Prohibited/ Suspended in India

The Government has suspended the manufacture for sale, sale and distribution of following drugs in 2013 as the use of these drugs was likely to involve risk to the human health:

1. Dextropropoxyphene and formulations containing Dextropropoxyphene for human use. 2. Analgin and all formulations containing analgin for human use. 3. Fixed Dose Combination of Flupenthixol+Melitracen for human use.

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Educational Radio in India : A Complete Article

Educational Radio in India

 In the contemporary world, we can undoubtedly say that radio is the most popular as well as powerful tools of dissemination of information and education. Radio has its unique value in the society. It provides a platform where members of a society can discuss their problems, issues and exchange views. It develops a sense of belonging among the members of a society. Therefore, Matt Mollgaard has rightly commented in his book Radio and Society: New Thinking for an Old Medium. 

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News Digest this week December

Madhya Pradesh witnessed the highest-ever voter turnout of over 70 percent and Mizoram more than 81 percent in the assembly polls.The previous high turn-out in MP was 69.58 percent in the 2008 assembly elections while it was 82.35 percent in Mizoram, For the first time in the country, a voter-verifiable paper audit trail system was tried in this election on a larger scale, in 10 constituencies.It was first experimented in Assembly bypoll election in Nagaland in September.

The Cabinet has extended limits on stocks of paddy and rice that traders can hold by one years to check hoarding and price rise.The objectives of control orders is to enable State Governments to continue to take effective de-hoarding operations under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 by fixing stock limits/licensing requirements etc. in respect of these commodities. The cabinet also approved exemption to exporters having IEC code issued by DGFT from the purview of Stock holding limits under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 with respect to edible oil seeds, edible oils and rice.This will help exporters benefit from economies of scale and bigger operations for optimally meeting export demands on along terms basis.

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Nobel Prize Winners 2013 : Short Summary

A Look on the Nobel Prize Winners 2013

Nobel Prize in Chemistry , Physics and Physiology or Medicine has been announced for 2013. The Prize in chemistry has been awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael levitt and Arieh Warshel for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems. The Prize in Physics has been jointly shared by Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.

In 1964, they proposed the theory independently of each. In 2012, their ideas were confirmed by the discovery of a so called Higgs particle at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva in Switzerland. The Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to James E. Rothman, RandyW. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.

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About National Food Security Bill

Parliament passed the National Food Security Bill for ensuring food and nutritional security to the people. It gives right to the people to receive adequate quantity of food grains at affordable prices. Upto 75% of the rural population and upto 50% of the urban population will have uniform entitlement of 5kg food grains per month at highly subsidized prices of Rs.3, Rs. 2, Re. 1 per kg. for rice, wheat, coarse grains respectively. It will entitle about two thirds of our 1.2 billion population to subsidized foodgrain sunder the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS). 

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Current Affairs of the Date 30th August : India

• Lok Sabha passes the Land Acquisition Bill with an overwhelming majority.

• Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to make a statement in Parliament today on the current economic situation.

• India's first exclusive defence satellite GSAT-7 launched successfully from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

• British Parliament rejects possible military action against Assad government in Syria.

• Leander Paes and Sania Mirza with their partners advance to the second round of the US Open tennis tournament in doubles category.

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India bags Gold in Archery World Cup Stage 4 competition in Wroclaw, Poland.

India bagged a Gold medal in the Archery World Cup Stage 4 competition in Wroclaw, Poland yesterday. In the Women's Recurve Team final, the sixth seeded Indian team of Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Rimil Buriuly defeated the top seeded Korean team of Yun Ok-Hee, Ki Bo Bae, and Joo Hyun Jung, 219-215 to clinch the coveted yellow metal. Before setting up a final with heavy weights Korea, India had defeated Indonesia (217-216), Mexico (211-202) and Denmark (214-206).

This is the Indian trio's second successive Gold. They had brought laurels to the country in July this year, after winning the Stage 3 meet at Medellin, Colombia.

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