What is Gwangju Prize ?

The 2009 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Committee has chosen Min Ko Naing to be this year’s prizewinner. Min Ko Naing and his colleagues have devoted themselves to Burma’s democratization.Born in the Burmese capital of Yangon in 1962, Min Ko Naing organized the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), a nationwide student union, in ..

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About National Disaster Management Authority

About NDMA: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is the chairman and General NC Vij is the Vice chairman. Government of India (GOI), in recognition of the importance of Disaster Management as a national priority, has set up a High-Powered Committee (HPC) in August 1999 and also a nation committee after the Gujarat earthquake, for making ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2009

Topics: Current GK Questions • Disaster Management Act • Disaster management in India • Emergency management • Government • Government of India • India • Ministry of Home Affairs • National Disaster Management Authority • National Institute of Disaster Management • NDMA

What is Skilled Birth Attendance?

What the Human Rights Watch says is that Indian Government treats the huge increase of clinic-based deliveries as progress claiming that 20 million women gave birth in health facilities across India between mid-2005 and March 2009, yet there is no reliable information on what percentage of these 20 million women actually survived after childbirth or ..

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What is Swarnim Gujarat Project?

Gujarat National Law University, with its academic excellence and enthusiastic students and staff, is keen to render its cooperation and is eager to have collaboration with the State Legislature and also with the justice delivery mechanism of the State. To meet this end, a Committee titled, Swarnim Gujarat Committee on Legal Reforms has, recently, been ..

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What is Seventeen Point Agreement ?

The Agreement of the Central People’s Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet is called the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet. It was signed between 14th Dalai Lama with the government of the newly-established People’s Republic of China on affirming Chinese sovereignty over ..

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