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Our aim is to help the candidates in their effort to get through the examinations. Your efforts and dedication inspire us to keep going. It is our sincere effort to make your journey easier. Best Wishes Editorial Board Team Aspirant Forum Courtesy: The Hindu Press Information Bureau (PIB) aspirantforum.com Vol. 45 May 2018 45 May Vol. Visit Aspirantforum.com for guidance and study material for IAS Exam. aspirantforum.com Hindu and PIB Crux Vol. 45 News and Events of May 2018 legal suits without the Centre’s sanction. National State to renew plea Nagaland’s Deputy Chief Minister Y. Patton AFSPA will continue in Nagaland: said the State government would reiterate its Rijiju request to the Centre to revoke AFSPA. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said “The discussion on the Naga political situation AFSPA, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) is on and we are expecting the Government of Act, 1958, will continue in Nagaland as it is India to solve the problem at the earliest. We a “special case” and the “peace agreement” have requested to lift AFSPA but we have been hasn’t been finalised there yet. asked to wait for some time. When the solution Nagaland is the only State in the northeast, apart (Naga deal) comes, automatically AFSPA will from eight police stations in Arunachal Pradesh, go,” Mr. Patton said. where ASFPA continues to be imposed by the NSCN-IM signed a framework agreement with Union Home Ministry. the Government of India on August 3, 2015 to Nagaland, Manipur and Assam are the only find a solution to the Naga issue. three States in the northeast that continue to be The NSCN-IM has been fighting for ‘Greater under AFSPA. Nagaland’ or Nagalim — it wants to extend Last year, the Home Ministry gave up its power Nagaland’s borders by including Naga- and asked the Assam government to take a dominated areas in neighbouring Assam, decision on continuing AFSPA in the State. The Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, to unite 1.2 Act gives powers to the Army and the Central million Nagas. forces deployed in “disturbed areas” to kill Mr. Rijiju told The Hindu, “Revocation of AFSPA anyone acting in contravention of law, arrest aspirantforum.comin Meghalaya is definitely related to improvement and search any premises without a warrant and of the security scenario in the northeast. AFSPA provide cover to forces from prosecution and Vol. 45 May 2018 45 May Vol. is imposed both by the State and the Centre. It Visit Aspirantforum.com for guidance and study material for IAS Exam. aspirantforum.com Hindu and PIB Crux Vol. 45 News and Events of May 2018 was withdrawn by Tripura (in 2015). agenda for ‘New India 2022’, which will spell out ‘No politics’ the strategy for expediting economic growth, its “It is a joint effort by the State government and vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said. the Centre. Security is a subject where both Kumar said NITI Aayog will start working on the Centre and the State should come together a 15-year vision document after finalizing the without any politics. In Assam also the situation development agenda document for ‘New India has improved, that is why the Home Ministry 2022’. withdrew it but it is imposed by the State “The NITI Aayog is committed to bringing out a government.” vision document and a strategy framework as He said he was not sure if AFSPA would be originally mandated. The work on the strategy lifted from Nagaland in future. document is in an advanced stage and will most ‘Many factions involved’ likely be titled ‘Development Agenda document “Nagaland is a special case…the peace for New India 2022’. And once this document agreement has not come about yet. There are has been completed and put in public domain, many underground factions as well. There are the work on preparing 15-year vision till 2030 issues like rivalry among different factions…I will start,” he said in an interview. cannot say about the future policy,” Mr. Rijiju NITI Aayog had earlier planned to come out with said. On April 1, the Home Ministry revoked three documents—three-year action agenda, AFSPA in Meghalaya and restricted it to eight seven-year medium-term strategy paper and a police stations instead of 16 in Arunachal 15-year vision document. Pradesh. The think-tank, in a presentation last year, aspirantforum.comhad said the foundation for freedom from six Development agenda for 2022 soon: NITI Aayog problems—poverty, dirt, corruption, terrorism, NITI Aayog will soon come out with a development casteism and communalism—will be laid Vol. 45 May 2018 45 May Vol. Visit Aspirantforum.com for guidance and study material for IAS Exam. aspirantforum.com Hindu and PIB Crux Vol. 45 News and Events of May 2018 by 2022 when India celebrates 75 years of and sold as Longifene by Mankind Pharma in independence. India, this anti-histamine drug has come under Replying to a query on disinvestment of public the scanner of regulatory authorities, after it sector units (PSUs), Kumar said, “There is now was found that the drug has not undergone an effort to try and unlock the potential value of clinical trials to test its efficacy and safety even equity in some profit-making public sector units in the country of origin. by taking steps to improve their performance India’s drug advisory body, the Drugs Technical and then monetize part of their equity so that Advisory Board (DTAB) is likely to deliberate on the government could benefit. This process the matter at its next meeting slated for May. is intended both to improve performance “Aggressively promoted as an appetite stimulant of these public sector units through greater for young children, the drug is available both public accountability and generate maximum as syrup and a tablet. The drug has come revenues for the government” . under the lens as it is not marketed as an The government expects to raise Rs80,000 appetite stimulant even in its country of origin. crore PSU disinvestment in the current fiscal. The government is considering to prohibit the sale and distribution of the drug as appetite Govt moves to prohibit distribution, stimulant under the provisions of section 26 A sale of Buclizine as appetite of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940,” said one of stimulant the people cited above. Buclizine, a widely recommended appetite Mankind Pharma, which acquired the drug from stimulant for picky eaters, is likely to be UCB in 2012, said necessary approvals were prohibited for sale in India, almost 12 years taken from the Drug Controller General of India after it was approvedaspirantforum.com to be sold in India, two (DCGI) in 2006 to sell the drug as an appetite people aware of the matter said. stimulant and as an anti-allergic in 2010.
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