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📚The Vjosa River in Albania, one of the last wild rivers of Europe is declared a National Park by the Albanian Government, becoming the first Wild River National Park in Europe.

📚Lok Sabha passes Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 The Lok Sabha on Wednesday, March 29, passed the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022. The Bill seeks to amend the Competition Act, 2002 to regulate mergers and acquisitions based on the value of transactions. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moved the Bill in the House amid the din. 📚Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 stipulates that deals with a transaction value of more than two thousand crore rupees will require the approval of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The Bill also proposes to reduce the timeline for the CCI to pass an order on such transactions from 210 days to 150 days. Further, the Bill provides a framework for settlement and commitment for faster resolution of investigations of anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position. It also decriminalizes certain offences under the Act by changing the nature of punishment from the imposition of fine to civil penalties. These offences include failure to comply with the orders of the CCI and directions of the Director General related to anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position. The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022 was introduced in the Lok Sabha in August 2022 and referred to the Standing Committee in the same month. The Standing Committee submitted its report in December last year. The Competition Act, 2002 The Competition Act aims to provide, keeping in view of the economic development of the country, for the establishment of a Commission to prevent practices having adverse effect on competition, to promote and sustain competition in markets, to protect the interests of consumers and to ensure freedom of trade carried on by other participants in markets, in India, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

🅾️India becomes first country to develop its own system for estimating TB cases 👉India has become the first country to develop a country-level mathematical model to estimate the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the country. 👉Using this model, TB incidence and mortality estimate data for India will be available by March every year. Notably, the data will be released months before the annual World Health Organization (WHO) estimates are released in October. It has opted to step away from the global estimates drawn by the WHO, adding that India can also prepare similar estimates at the state level in the future. ✅️ 36th Stop TB Partnership Board Meeting The model was presented before the delegates from 40 countries taking part in the 36th Stop TB Partnership Board meeting in Varanasi last week. 👉The new mathematical model was created using data from the natural history of disease, an individual’s infection and disease status, healthcare utilisation, missed or accurate diagnosis, coverage of treatment, and treatment outcomes, such as cure or death. 🔵Listing the efforts taken over the last 9-10 years to increase the National TB Elimination Program coverage, find missing cases, and generate more evidence, health officials said laboratory services have been decentralised and scaled up with high quality rapid diagnostic tests such as the Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT). 👉India has also introduced a daily regimen for first-line treatment of tuberculosis in 2017, integrating the regimens in the public and private sectors to harness universal access to TB care. 🔵Also, drug resistant TB patients have been provided injection-free, shorter, and better second-line treatment, and with Nikshay, tracking of patients has also helped in improving the treatment outcomes of all types of patients in both the public and private sectors, including those who otherwise would have been lost to follow-up.

🐯🐯A momentous event in our wildlife conservation history during Amrit Kaal! 🔵Four cubs born to one of the cheetahs that have been translocated to India on 17th September 2022.

Hello Students, A special video lecture on "How to cover Economy for Prelims 2023" will be uploaded soon in ours YouTube Channel.

🌿E. k. Janaki Ammal 🔵Pioneer Botanist 🔵Research on Sugarcane varieties,thereby improving India's independence on sugarcane ✅️ 🔵Co-authored 'Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants' with Mr. Darlington

🅾️ Today in 1857, #MangalPandey is known to have shot the 1st bullet in the barracks of #Barrackpore near Kolkata. 🔵This proved to be a watershed moment in India's history of the freedom movement ✅️A few days later, on 8th April 1857, he was hanged from the same place by the British🙏

📚Narcotics Control Bureau : (Topic : Governance/bodies) * Model drug law enforcement and intelligence agency of India * Responsible for fighting drug trafficking and abuse of illegal substances. * Hq - New Delhi * Under Ministry of Home affairs * NCB was created in 1986 to enable full implementation of the Narcotics Drug & Psychotrophic Substances Act, 1985. * The DG of NCB is generally an IPS or IRS officer. * NCB is also represented on the "Economic Intelligence Council" (EIC) * Recent News - (2020-2022) 1. SIMS - The Narcotics Control Bureau has developed a software "Seizure Information Management System" (SIMS), that creates a complete online database of drug offenses and offenders. 2. Operation Trance - * The NCB was also a part of the global "Operation TRANCE", which was a joint intelligence gathering action on international Postal, Express mail and courier shipments containing psychotropic drugs.