World Geography and Politics

The first biennial meeting of WTO was held in singapore in the year 1996

An online White House petition seeking to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism has gained a record half a million signatures, five times the number needed to get a response from the Obama Administration.
Petition was created on Sept 21 by a person with the initials RG and needs 100000 signatures in 30 days to get a response form the White House.

Following deadly attacks by ISIS in Nice and Istanbul, India and Malaysia have agreed to engage with one another on combating the threat posed by the global terrorist organisation.

• These countries are democratic and oppose the terror groups which are attracting youngsters with extremist ideology
• MoU on combating transnational crime between Malaysia and India is also being finalised.

US and Bangladesh have agreed to deepen cooperation in counter terrorism via capacity enhancement and this formed the basis of the fifth partnership dialogue between the two countries

• Partnership Dialogue was established in 2012.
• It is a regular consultation to advance common agenda and opportunities for cooperation through regional and bilateral issues.

India is home to one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, famously associated with the Indus Valley Civilization.

In 1954, India and China signed an agreement containing five principles of peaceful co-existence. These principles collectively known as "Panchsheel" became guidelines for the Non-Aligned Movement to evolve.

The Non-Aligned Movement owes a lot to the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In fact, India was the first country to initiate the policy of non-alignment, under the leadership of Nehru.

The five founding members of NAM were India, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Indonesia, and Ghana. Myanmar was not a founding member.

NAM has virtually lost its political relevance, it continues to be an effective forum for seeking economic justice. It could not do anything when two of its own members states, i.e., Iran and Iraq were engaged in a prolonged conflict. Similarly, it could not do much when Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979 or Iraq was invaded by the US-led coalition force in 2003.

The Union Cabinet approved the signing and ratification of a tax information exchange agreement with Samoa in 2011 to facilitate the exchange of information for tax purposes.

Angkor Wat is a massive temple complex located in the Siem Reap province of Cambodia.

Indonesia, despite being a Muslim-majority nation, retains a strong cultural heritage rooted in Indian epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata, which are central to traditional shadow puppetry and dance.

The Green Belt Movement (GBM) was started in the year 1977 by Professor Wangari Maathai in Kenya. It was launched with the support of National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK), to cater the needs of rural Kenyan women who addressed the issue that the rivers were drying, they had meager food supply and had to walk a long distance to get firewood for fuel and fencing. The Green Belt Movement has planted 30 million trees across Kenya.

The concept of microfinance and women's savings groups (like the Grameen Bank model) gained significant global recognition from initiatives originating in Bangladesh.