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    Navy thwarts hijacking attempt in Arabian Sea - Page No.1 , GS 2


    India’s GDP estimated to grow by 7.3%: NSO data - Page No.1 , GS
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    Drug war - Page No.6 , GS 2
    ‘Prithvi’ programme - Page No.10 , GS 3
    Competition Commission of India (CCI) - Page No.11 , Prelims

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    Pg no. 1 GS 2
    Navy thwarts hijacking attempt in Arabian Sea - Page
    No.1 , GS 2
    • In a positive end to a hijacking attempt in the North Arabian Sea,
    marine commandos (MARCOS) of the Indian Navy on Friday
    evening secured and safely evacuated all 21 crew members,
    including 15 Indians, from merchant vessel Lila Norfolk.

    • “Sanitisation by MARCOS has confirmed absence of the hijackers.


    The attempt of hijacking by the pirates was probably abandoned
    with the forceful warning by the Indian Navy’s Maritime Patrol
    Aircraft (MPA) and interception by Indian Naval warship,” the Navy
    said in a statement.

    • “INS Chennai is in the vicinity of MV and rendering support to


    restore the power generation and propulsion, and commence her
    voyage to next port of call.”
    INS Chennai
    • It is the Indian Navy’s indigenously designed and constructed guided missile
    destroyer.
    • It is the third and last ship of the Kolkata-class stealth-guided missile destroyers
    (Project 15A).
    • It was constructed by the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) at Mumbai.
    • INS Chennai was commissioned into the Indian Navy on November 21, 2016.

    • It measures 163 meters in length and has a beam of 17.4 meters.


    • Displacement: Over 7,500 tons.
    • Top Speed: 30 knots (approx 55 KM/hour)
    • It is powered by four reversible gas turbine engines.
    • It can carry 350 to 400 people.
    • Armament: It is armed with Vertical launch and long-range surface-to-air and
    surface-to-surface missile systems like supersonic BrahMos, ‘Barak-8’ Long
    Range Surface to Air missiles.
    • The ship is equipped to fight under nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC)
    warfare conditions.
    Pg no. 1 GS 3
    India’s GDP estimated to grow by 7.3%: NSO data -
    Page No.1 , GS 3
    • India’s real GDP growth in 2023-24 is estimated at 7.3%, compared to 7.2%
    a year ago, as per the first advance estimates of national income released
    by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday, which reckon the
    economy will outperform the 7% uptick recently projected by the Reserve
    Bank of India (RBI).

    • With GDP growth in the first half of this year clocking 7.7%, the NSO’s
    advance estimates, that rely on data for the first six to eight months of a
    year and are helpful in the Union Budget formulation, indicate the second-
    half growth will be about 6.9%-7%.

    • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is defined as total market value of all final
    goods and services in an economy.

    • GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government investment


    + government spending + (exports-imports)
    NSO

    • The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation


    (MoSPI) is a ministry of Government of Indiaconcerned with
    coverage and quality aspects of statistics released. The surveys
    conducted by the Ministry are based on scientific sampling
    methods.
    • The Ministry has two wings, one relating to Statistics and the
    other Programme Implementation. The Statistics Wing called the
    National Statistical Office (NSO) consists of the Central
    Statistical Office (CSO), the Computer center and the National
    Sample Survey Office (NSSO).
    • On 23rd May 2019, the government merged the NSSO with the
    Central Statistics Office (CSO) to form the National Statistical
    Office (NSO).
    Pg no. 6 GS 2
    Drug war - Page No.6 , GS 2
    • The ‘First Multicentric Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Use at 20
    NAC-NET Sites India 2021-22’ conducted by the National Centre for
    Disease Control under the Health Ministry has thrown up startling
    statistics, but more importantly, examining the minutiae italicises key
    issues that have been flagged by experts for years now.

    • Over 70% of the patients in tertiary-care hospitals across 15 States and


    two Union Territories were prescribed antibiotics; over 50% of antibiotics
    prescribed have the potential to cause AMR.

    • But the most crucial reveal was that 55% of the patients surveyed were
    prescribed antibiotics as prophylaxis, or as a preventive; only 45% were
    prescribed antibiotics to actually treat infections; of this, only 6% were
    prescribed the drugs after identifying the specific bacteria.
    • AMR occurs when pathogens evolve, fortifying themselves against
    drugs, and stop responding to antimicrobial drugs. While it is the
    nature of pathogens to evolve, this ever-increasing crisis is
    constantly being exacerbated by unsound medical, and animal
    husbandry practices.

    • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that bacterial AMR


    was directly responsible for 1.27 million global deaths in 2019 and
    contributed to 4.95 million deaths.

    • AMR invalidates the multiple gains that modern medicine has


    achieved over years, makes infections harder to treat, but also
    renders other medical procedures and treatments such as surgery,
    caesarean sections and cancer chemotherapy, much more risky,
    WHO warns.
    AWaRe
    • The AWaRe tool was developed by the WHO Essential Medicines
    List to contain rising resistance and make antibiotic use safer
    and more effective by providing guidelines (over the effective
    use of antibiotics) to the policy-makers and health workers.

    • It classifies antibiotics into three groups:


    • Access— antibiotics used to treat the most common and serious
    infections.
    • Watch— antibiotics available at all times in the healthcare
    system.
    • Reserve— antibiotics to be used sparingly or preserved and used
    only as a last resort.
    Pg no. 10 GS 3
    ‘Prithvi’ programme - Page No.10 , GS 3
    • The Union Cabinet on Friday cleared a ₹4,797-crore programme called ‘Prithvi’
    (Earth) that is expected to subsume five existing schemes of the Ministry of
    Earth Sciences (MoES).

    • These programmes are to improve and increase long-term observations of the


    atmosphere, ocean, geosphere, cryosphere, and solid earth to track changes
    in the planet; develop models to understand and predict weather, ocean and
    climate hazards, and understand the science of climate change; explore polar
    and high-seas regions of the earth to discover new phenomena and
    resources; develop techno- logy for exploration and sustainable harnessing of
    oceanic resources for societal applications; and translate knowledge and
    insights from earth system science into services for societal, environmental,
    and economic benefit.

    • “A major component of the Ministry is the Deep Ocean Mission or DOM [one
    of whose objectives is to send a manned submersible 6,000 metres into the
    Indian Ocean]. The Prithvi programme broadly subsumes all of our other
    major activities,” M. Ravichandran, Secretary, MoES, told The Hindu. The DOM
    was cleared by the Cabinet in 2021 at an outlay of ₹4,000 crore for five years.
    Pg no. 11

    Competition Commission of India (CCI) - Page No.11 ,


    Prelims
    Competition Commission of India (CCI)?

    • Competition Commission of India (CCI) is a statutory body of the Government


    of India responsible for enforcing the Competition Act, 2002, it was duly
    constituted in March 2009.
    • The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 (MRTP Act) was
    repealed and replaced by the Competition Act, 2002, on the recommendations
    of the Raghavan committee.

    Composition:
    • The Commission consists of one Chairperson and six Members who shall be
    appointed by the Central Government.

    • To eliminate practices having adverse effects on competition, protect the


    interests of consumers and ensure freedom of trade in the markets of India.
    • To give opinion on competition issues on a reference received from a
    statutory authority
    • To undertake competition advocacy, create public awareness and impart
    training on competition issues.
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