SAARC Secretariat is in Kathmandu (Nepal). It was formed in December 1985 in Dhaka on the idea put forward by then Bangladesh President Zia-ur-Rahman. SAARRC members are India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives and Afghanistan. On April 3, 2017,…

The Caux Round Table (CRT): principles followed by firm sin US, Europe and Japan. Founded in 1986. Focuses on global social responsibility so that there is peace in the world. It focuses on better risk calculation and mitigation. Principles for Global Corporate Respon…

In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. The United Nations officially came into existence on 24th October 1945, when the Charter had been ratifie…

ITER (originally an acronym standing for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ) is an international tokamak (magnetic confinement fusion) research/engineering project designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of a full-scale fusi…

Arjuna Awards: The Arjuna Awards were established and instituted in 1961. To be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should have had not only good performance consistently for the previous three years at the international level with excellence for the year for which …

Bharat Nirman Programme  is a four-year business plan to develop rural infrastructure. The government of India launched a time-bound plan under Bharat Nirman in 2005 for implementation during four year period, 2005-2009. The six components included under this rur…

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT) are the departments that work under the Ministry of Scientific & Technology. Department of Science and Technology (DST): DST is…

The idea of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was firstly publicly broached by former Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Bob Hawke, during a speech in Seoul, Korea, in January 1989. Later that year, 12 Asia-Pacific economies met in Canberra, Australia, to establi…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 19…

INTERPOL is the world's largest international police organization, with 194 countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police cooperation and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat interna…

The Sun: Sun accounts for 99.85% of the mass of the solar system. The Sun takes 250 million years to complete one revolution around its center. This period is called a cosmic year.  The Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen. The light from the Sun reaches Earth in about …

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards. ISO was founded on 23rd February 1947 as a non-governmental federation of national standard bodies. ISO is a network of the national sta…

National Flag: The national flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on July 22, 1947. A tricolor flag was first accepted by the Indian national congress in 1931, having Chakra in place of today's Chakra. It is a horizontal tricolor of deep Saffron at…

The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as the Commonwealth and formerly as the British Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign States, all of which are former possessions of the British Empire, except for Mozambique, Rwanda and the Uni…