International Organizations, Defence, Books & Authors, World History

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National Sports Day is celebrated on August 29 in India. This day marks the birthday of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand, regarded as one of the greatest field hockey players of all time. National Sports Day aims to raise awareness on the importance of sports and physical fitness.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters are located at Boulevard Leopold III in Brussels, Belgium. The 41-hectare campus is located on the outskirts of Brussels. The design of the campus is meant to symbolize unity, with fingers interlaced in a clasp.
NATO was established in 1949 when 28 countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty. The organization’s purpose is to protect the freedom and security of its member nations. NATO’s military headquarters are located near Mons, Belgium.

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The World Health Day (WHD) is observed every year on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO)

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The general secretariat of Amnesty International is located in London, United Kingdom. The non-governmental organization was founded in July 1961 by Peter Benenson and Philip James. Amnesty International is a human rights organization that campaigns for compliance with international laws and standards. They use media attention, direct-appeal campaigns, research, and lobbying to protect human rights. Amnesty International has opened regional offices in cities across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 37 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is headquartered at Paris, France. The OECD publishes and updates a model tax convention that serves as a template for allocating taxation rights between countries.

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In the United Nations Human Rights Council there are members elected for the seats. The United Nations Human Rights Council is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.

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The 16-member bloc RCEP comprises 10 ASEAN members (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam) and their six FTA partners – India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

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State-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. (MDL) and Garden Reach Shipbuilders Engineers (GRSE) are building complex weapon-intensive vessels such as destroyers, stealth frigates and corvettes.

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India, Russia, and China have partnered to explore an alternative to the US-dominated Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) payment mechanism. The move aims to smoothen trade with countries that face American sanctions. The countries have decided to link Russia’s financial messaging system of the Bank of Russia (SPFS) with the Chinese cross-border inter-bank payment system Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS). As India does not have a domestic financial messaging system, it plans to link the Central Bank of Russia’s platform with a service that is being developed.

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3 May is celebrated as World Press Freedom Day.