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BBC-The British Broadcasting Corporation

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the principal public service broadcaster in the United Kingdom, headquartered in the Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff. Its main responsibility is to provide public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament.

Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online.

History

The privately owned BBC was the world’s first national broadcasting organisation and was founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. The original company was founded in 1922 by a group of six telecommunications companies—Marconi, Radio Communication Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Electric, Western Electric, and British Thomson-Houston—to broadcast experimental radio services. The first transmission was on 14 November of that year, from station 2LO, located at Marconi House, London

British Broadcasting Corporation

Industry	Broadcasting
Predecessor	British Broadcasting Company
Founded	18 October 1922
Founder(s)	Lord John Reith
Headquarters	City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Sir Michael Lyons (Chairman, BBC Trust) Mark Thompson (Director-General)
Services	Television, Radio & Online
Website	www.bbc.co.uk

ISRO Its Histroy and its Activities

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Indian Space Programme

Space Study ,Space Activities in India and ISRO

Space activities in India started during early 1960s with the scientific investigation of upper atmosphere and ionosphere over the magnetic equator that passes over Thumba near Thiruvananthapuram
using small sounding rockets Realising the immense potential of space technology for national development, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, the visionary leader envisioned that this powerful technology could play a meaningful role in national development and solving the problems of common man.

Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), a few meters from the coastline,St Mary Magdalene Church

Thus, Indian Space programme born in the church beginning, space activities in the country, concentrated on achieving self reliance and developing capability to build and launch communication satellites for television broadcast, telecommunications and meteorological applications; remote sensing satellites for management of natural resources.
The objective of ISRO is to develop space technology and its application to various national tasks. ISRO has established two major space systems, INSAT for communication, television broadcasting and meteorological services, and Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS) system for resources monitoring and management. ISRO has developed two satellite launch vehicles, PSLV and GSLV, to place INSAT and IRS satellites in the required orbits
Accordingly, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully operationalised two major satellite systems namely Indian National Satellites (INSAT) for communication services and Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites for management of natural resources; also, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) for launching IRS type of satellites and Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) for launching INSAT type of satellites.
The Space Commission formulates the policies and oversees the implementation of the Indian space programme to promote the development and application of space science and technology for the socio-economic benefit of the country. DOS implements these programmes through, mainly Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), North Eastern-Space Applications Centre (NE-SAC) and Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL). The Antrix Corporation, established in 1992 as a government owned company, markets the space products and services.

Space Tribute :Indian space programme driven by vision of
Dr Vikram Sarabhai considered as the father of Indian Space Programme.

source : www.isro.org

United Nations and its Secretaries Generals

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The history of the United Nations as an international organization has its origins in World War II. US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt first suggested using the name United Nations to refer to the Allies of World War II. Franklin Roosevelt adopted the name and the first official use of the term occurred on January 1, 1942 with the Declaration by the United Nations.

Name	Period	Nationality
Trygve Halvdan Lie	1946 ― 1952	Norway
Dag Hammarskjold	1952 ― 1961	Sweden
U Thant	1961 ― 1971	Myanmar
Kurt Waldheim	1972 ― 1981	Austria
Javier Perez de Cuellar	1982 ― 1991	Peru
Boutros Boutros-Ghali	1992 ― 1996	Egypt
Kofi Annan	1997 ― 2006	Ghana
Ban Ki Moon	2007 ―	South Korea

Azim Premji Foundation

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:00:44 +0000

Azim Premji Foundation
o Today it reaches out 16,600 plus schools, nearly 3 lk children and about 60,000 teachers with a team of 250 professionals and over 1000 paid field volunteers.

Financial Action Task Force(FATF)

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Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was founded by the G-7 countries in 1989 to develop and promote national and international policies to combat money laundering and terror financing. The membership of the FATF is limited to 35 countries at present. India has an observer status. India is a member of the Asia-Pacific Group, a FATF-style regional body. Membership of FATF will allow India easy access to real-time information on money laundering and terror financing and help to raise the diplomatic pitch against perpetrators. It will also make India more attractive in the eyes of global investors.

SAARC-South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

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SAARC -South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

The membership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has risen to eight with the admission of Afghanistan to its fold.
The Association was formed in 1985 with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives as its members. Afghanistan was admitted
at the 14 th SAARC summit held in New Delhi in April 2007.

Organisations and its Founders

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:48:44 +0000

Theolical soceity -Madem Blavesky,Kernal Aulkot

Brahma samajam (1928) – Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Arya samajam -Swami Dayandasarswati

Prartana samjam (1867)-Atmaram pandurang
Servants of India soceity (1905)-Gopalakrishna Gokhale
Sarvodaya Soceity -Jayaprakash narayan
Bhudana Prastan -Vinobabhave
Chipko Mobement -sunderlal bahuguna

Self Respect Movement (1925) – E V Ramaswamy Naiker
Bharatiya Vidya bhavan -Munshi
Vanamahotsav -K M Munshi

Anusheelen Samathi – P.Mithra
Gader Party – Lala Hardayal
Red Shirts – Khan Abdul Gapher Khan
Aligad Movement -Sir Sayed Ahammed Khan
Ahamediya movement – Mirza Gulam Ahammed
Home rule -Ane Basent,Balagangadara Tilek