IPC Current Affairs, GK & News
Vulnerable Witness Deposition Centre (VWDC) Scheme
The Supreme Court has directed the High Courts of the country to provide an estimate of manpower required to create Vulnerable Witness Deposition Centre (VWDC) scheme in their states within three months. It has introduced new definitions to the vulnerable victims. Who are vulnerable victims? The Supreme Court has included the sexually assaulted victims in ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Alternate Dispute Resolution • Health care • High Court • IPC • Mental Disability • Mental health • Ministry of Women and Child Development • Section 377 • Sexual assault • Supreme court • vulnerable witness deposition centre
Afghanistan becomes first country to recognize Indian Pharmacopoeia
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has become the first country to recognize Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) pursuant to the efforts of Department of Commerce and Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The formal recognistion came from Afghanistan’s National Department of Regulation of Medicines and Health Products of Ministry of Public Health. It will also be ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Drugs and Cosmetics Act • India-Afghanistan • Indian Pharmacopoeia • Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission • IPC • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Draft law to Prevent Violence against Medical Service Persons and Medical Service Institutions
The draft Protection of Medical Service Persons and Medical Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss of Property) bill, 2017 submitted by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to the Ministry of Health and Family welfare encompasses the following provisions: It proposes a ten-year jail term and a fine of Rs 5-lakh for violence ..
Topics: Doctors • Health • IMA • Indian Medical Association • IPC • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare • Protection of Medical Service Persons and Medical Service Institutions Bill • State Subject
Three Indians included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People List 2019
Three Indians Menaka Guruswamy, Arundhati Katju and Mukesh Ambani have featured into TIME 100 Most Influential People list of 2019. Global prominent names that have featured in this list included US President Donald Trump, China President Xi Jinping, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pope Francis, golfer Tiger Woods and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Mukesh Ambani: ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Arundhati Katju • IPC • LGBTQ • Menaka Guruswamy • Mukesh Amban • Section 377 • Time 100
CDSCO Directs to Display Information on 7 Common Antibiotics
After the alerts from the Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has asked manufacturers of 7 common antibiotics to ensure that information related to symptoms/side effects is made available to the general public. CDSCO Order CDSCO has asked drug manufacturers, to mention in leaflets inserted into drug packets or ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Topics: Adverse drug Reactions • CDSCO • Cefixime • Cefotaxime • Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation • Ghaziabad • Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission • IPC • Ofloxacin • Pharmacovigilance Programme of India • PvPI • Quetiapine • Sodium Valproate • Sulfasalazine • Tranexamic Acid