1. Centre approves new treatment regimen for multidrug-resistant TB
As per Ministry, The BPaLM regimen has proven to be a safe, more effective and quicker treatment option than the previous multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment procedure.
It added that the country was working towards the elimination of TB by 2025, five years ahead of the global target for eliminating the disease under the sustainable development goals. As part of these efforts, the Ministry has introduced the BPaLM regimen, a novel treatment for MDR-TB, under its National TB Elimination Programme
This regimen includes a new anti-TB drug, Pretomanid, in combination with Bedaquiline and Linezolid (with or without Moxifloxacin).
2. PM Narendra Modi to host Quad Summit in India this year
The Quad is a diplomatic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. This is the first time India will host the Quad Summit, which was upgraded to the leadership level in 2021. The date for the summit has been a difficult negotiation for MEA officials, particularly given the election dates and travel schedules of all the leaders involved.
Agenda of this meeting have mainly maritime security, critical and emerging technologies, cyber security, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, health security, climate change, counterterrorism, infrastructure and connectivity, and addressing the debt crisis through sustainable, transparent and fair lending and financing practices”
3. Judicial appointments not the charter of a single judge, must be collaborative : SC
The Supreme Court held on Friday that the process of judicial appointments to constitutional courts in the
country is not the Chief Justices’ “prerogative” and must be consultative.
Collegium system of judicial appointments, followed since it was brought into effect in 1993 by the
Supreme Court itself, was a “collaborative and participatory process” involving all the members of the Collegium, which includes, the senior-most judges of the court concerned.
4. Bengal Governor sends Aparajita Bill for President’s assent
West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Friday referred the Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 for the consideration of President Droupadi Murmu.
The Bill seeks to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Adhiniyam, and the POCSO Act, adding provisions to impose the death penalty for different kinds of rape.
According to Article 201, Governor’s have to right of bill reserved for consideration of the president.
5. Praveen won India its sixth gold medal in Paris, one better than the country’s Tokyo Paralympics haul
High jumper Praveen Kumar jumped to a new Asian record of 2.08m in the T64 category, which also featured athletes of T44 classification. He clinched the top honours ahead of USA’s Derek Loccident (2.06m) and Uzbekistan’s Temurbek Giyazov (2.03m).
