A Few Organizations.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) -Established - 1 April 1963 -based Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. -Current director - Ashwani Kumar -Founder director of the CBI - D.P. Kohli Intelligence Bureau (India) -Established - 1964 -Controlling Authority - Ministry of Home Affairs -Headquarters - New Delhi -Director - Rajeev Mathur

National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) -Established - October 12, 1993 -Chairperson - Hon'ble Justice Shri S. Rajendra Babu -Chairperson,National Commission for Minorities - Shri Mohammad Shafi Qureshi -Chairperson,National Commission for Women - Dr.Girija Vyas

Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) -Established - 15 August, 1969 -Headquarters - Bangalore -Dr. Vikram Sarabhai - the father of Indian Space Program. - Current Chairman - Mr G Madhavan Nair.

Reserve Bank of India(RBI) Established - April 1, 1935 Headquarters - Mumbai Current Governor - Duvvuri Subbarao

It was setup on the recommendation of Hilton Young Commission. Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI) -Established - 1992 -Headquarters - Mumbai -Current Chairman - Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave -Responsive to the needs of three groups *the issuers of securities *the investors *the market intermediaries. Research and Analysis Wing( RAW) -Established - September 1968 after the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. -Headquarters - New Delhi. -Current Director - K.C. Verma. -Founder Director - R. N. Kao. -RAW has been organized on the lines of the CIA.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -Established - November 16, 1945 -Headquarters - Paris , France -Current Membership - 193 Members and 6 Associate Members. -Current Director General - Koichiro Matsuura, Japan -Aim - UNESCO implements its activities through the five programme areas of Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, and Communication and Information. Asian Development Bank (ADB) -Established - 1966 -Current Membership - 67 ( Asian and Pacific region: 48 members ,Other regions: 19 members) -Headquarters - Manila, Philippines -Aim - to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their

people. -President - Haruhiko Kuroda World Trade Organization(WTO) -Established - January 1, 1995 -It replaced General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which was established in 1947 -Current Membership - 153 -Headquarters - Geneva, Switzerland -Aims *It oversees the implementation, administration and operation of the covered agreements It provides a forum for negotiations and for settling disputes. -Director General - Pascal Lamy World Health Organization (WHO) -Established - 7 April 1948 -Headquarters - Geneva, Switzerland -Membership - 193 Member States * all UN Member States except Liechtenstein. *2 non-UN members, Niue and the Cook Islands. -Six Regional Office 1. Brazzaville, Congo 2. Washington, D.C., USA 3. Cairo, Egypt 4. Copenhagen, Denmark 5. HQ: New Delhi, India 6. Manila, Philippines -Current head - Dr. Margaret Chan UNITED NATIONS(UN) -Established - 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations. * United Nations Charter 26 June 1945 * Ratification of Charter 24 October 1945 -The term "United Nations" was first used by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt -official languages- Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

- Membership - 192 -Principal Organs – 1. The General Assembly -the main deliberative assembly - appoint the non-permanent members to the Security Council -first session was convened on 10 January 1946 in the Westminster Central Hall in London and included representatives of 51 nations. 2. The Security Council – decides certain resolutions for peace and security , 10 members ( 5 permanent members – USA, China, Russia, UK, France ) -The Security Council held its first session on 17 January 1946 at Church House, London. -Established – 1946 -Current permanent home - New York City. 3. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) -assists in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development -Current Membership – 54 -Established – 1945 4. The Secretariat -Established – 1945 -provides studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN. -SECRETARY GENERALS 1.Trygve Lie, Norway (1945-1953) 2.Dag Hammarskjöld, Sweden (1953-1961) 3.U Thant, Burma (1961-1971) 4.Kurt Waldheim, Austria (1972-1981) 5.Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peru (1982-1991) 6.Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egypt (1992-1996) 7.Kofi Annan, Ghana (1997-2006) 7.Ban Ki-moon, South Korea (2007-incumbent) -Current Secretary General - Ban Ki-moon, South Korea

5. The International Court of Justice - the primary judicial organ - Headquarters - Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands -Established – 1945 -Current President - Hisashi Owada - The ICJ is composed of fifteen judges elected to nine year terms by the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council from a list of persons nominated by the national groups in the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) -Established - Statute - 14-10-1960 In effect - January 1961 -Members - Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela (total - 12). -Headquarters - Vienna, Austria. -Official language - English. - Gabon left OPEC in 1994 and Indonesia in 2008. -Secretary General - Abdallah Salem el-Badri, Libya. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) -Established - December 8, 1985. -Founder members - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan. -at the Association's 14th summit, Afghanistan became its eighth member. -Initiative of the then Bangladeshi President Zia-ur-Rahman.(late 1970s) -Headquarter/Secretariat - established in Kathmandu on 16 January 1987 and was inaugurated by Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal. -Membership - 8 (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives ,Bhutan and Afganistan). -1st SAARC summit - December 7-8, 1985. -Chairman - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka. -Secretary General - Sheel Kant Sharma, India.