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South Africa joined the group in late 2010, turning BRIC into BRICS, and its first summit as a member was the third summit of the group, held at Sanya on Hainan Island in China in April 2011.

Sampriti is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Bangladesh Army, and the 2017 edition was one round of this long-running series.

The Army Air Defence College is not in Pune; it stands at Gopalpur-on-Sea in the Ganjam district of Odisha, on the Bay of Bengal coast.

Tatra is not a missile at all: it is a make of heavy all-terrain trucks from the Czech Republic, used by the Indian Army to carry launchers, radars and other heavy loads.

"Brexit" joins "Britain" and "exit" and means the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. In a referendum on 23 June 2016, about 52% of voters chose to leave the EU.

The Indian Army no longer has the rank of Second Lieutenant; an officer is now commissioned directly as a Lieutenant.

The Indian Army has no command by that name; the North-East falls under the Eastern Command, headquartered at Kolkata. The Army has seven commands.

The Indian Army has its own Corps of Army Air Defence, which guards troops and key places against enemy aircraft, drones and missiles.

The Indian Air Force has a separate Maintenance Command, with its headquarters at Nagpur, which looks after the repair, overhaul and supply of aircraft and equipment.

Every member of the UN Human Rights Council is elected for a three-year term, and India's 2018 win gave it a seat for 2019 to 2021.

The Jammu and Kashmir Rifles (JAK RIF) is a regular infantry regiment with its Regimental Centre at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

A Captain of the Navy stands level with a Colonel of the Army and a Group Captain of the Air Force.

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body of the UN, but it is not made up of all UN members: it has only 47 member states.

The Andaman and Nicobar Command was set up by India in 2001, long after the Second World War. The Command was raised in October 2001, following the recommendations of the Group of Ministers set up after the Kargil War to reform national security.

It is a resolution of the UN General Assembly, not a treaty that states sign and ratify. A treaty, usually called a covenant or convention, becomes legally binding on a country once it ratifies it, and a committee of experts watches how each party carries it out.

The right to property is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 17 says everyone has the right to own property and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of it.

India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, made solidarity with the newly free nations of Asia and Africa a central pillar of India's foreign policy.

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. ESCAP is one of the five regional commissions of the UN Economic and Social Council.

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) has its headquarters at Yokohama in Japan. ITTO is an intergovernmental body set up under the International Tropical Timber Agreement of 1983 and working since 1986.

Tokyo was called Edo until 1868, when it was renamed Tokyo, which means eastern capital.