SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

SAFTA was signed at the twelfth SAARC summit held at Islamabad in 2004 and came into force on 1 January 2006, replacing the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement, which had been signed in 1993 and had come into force in 1995.

BIMSTEC has seven members: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand, of which five are in South Asia and two in Southeast Asia.

The BIMSTEC Secretariat was opened at Dhaka in Bangladesh in 2014, seventeen years after the grouping was created by the Bangkok Declaration of 6 June 1997.

The ASEAN Secretariat has been at Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, since 1976, and it supports the summits, the ministerial councils and the three community pillars into which the grouping's work was organised in 2015.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was created on 8 August 1967 by the Bangkok Declaration, also called the ASEAN Declaration, signed by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; 8 August is observed as ASEAN Day.

SAARC began with seven members, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan was admitted as the eighth member at the fourteenth summit held in New Delhi in 2007, making it the only country to have joined the grouping after its founding.

The SAARC Secretariat was established at Kathmandu in Nepal on 16 January 1987 and is headed by a Secretary-General chosen from the member states in turn; it coordinates the work of the technical committees and the regional centres.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation came into being on 8 December 1985, when the heads of state and government of seven South Asian countries adopted its Charter at the first summit in Dhaka; the proposal had been made by President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh at the start of…

The seventeenth SAARC summit was held in November 2011 at Addu City in the Maldives, the country's second largest urban area, on Addu Atoll in the far south of the chain, and its theme was building bridges.

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? was written by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. and published in 2002.

The founder of the Essel group and of Zee, India's first privately owned Hindi satellite channel, told his story in The Z Factor, written with Pranjal Sharma.

The founder of Infosys gathered his lectures and convocation addresses into A Better India: A Better World, published in 2009, on themes of fairness in business, the duties of the educated and what he called compassionate capitalism.

Made in Japan was written by Akio Morita, who founded Sony with Masaru Ibuka, and it appeared in 1986.

Lean In was published in 2013 by Sheryl Sandberg, then Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and argues that women hold themselves back at work in ways that can be named and corrected, from leaving before they leave to underestimating their own readiness for a role.

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish appeared in 2008 and carries twenty-five profiles of entrepreneurs who had studied at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, grouped by whether they were born to business, were self-made or were driven by a cause.

Hit Refresh was published in 2017 by Satya Nadella, who became Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft in 2014.

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike was written by Phil Knight and published in 2016.

Kurien, the mechanical engineer who built the Amul co-operative at Anand in Gujarat and headed the National Dairy Development Board, told his story in I Too Had a Dream, written with Gouri Salvi and published in 2005; his earlier volume of lectures is An Unfinished Dream.

Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys and the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, published Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century in 2008; it argues that India's young population, its cities and its technology can be turned from problems into assets.

The national academy of art, set up in 1954 and working from Rabindra Bhavan in New Delhi, holds the National Exhibition of Art and gives the National Akademi Awards to the works selected in it, covering painting, sculpture, graphic art and allied forms; it also elects its own Fellows.