POLITICAL SCIENCE: 2012: CBSE: [ Delhi ] Set- III

USSR/Russia used veto power 123 times till 2007.

The South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) was signed by the members of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in the year 1 January 2006.

ASEAN way means a form of interaction that is informal, non-confrontationist and cooperative.

The First General Election was held between 25 October 1951 and 21 February 1952.

The second five-year plan focused on industry, especially heavy industry and particularly in the development of the public sector.

The act by an elected representative who gives up allegiance to one party on whose symbol he/she was elected, in exchange for allegiance to another party is known as defection.

An organized resistance in which the agitator expressed resistance to the destruction of forests by hugging to the trees, spread throughout India in the 1970s.This came to be known as the Chipko movement.

The mediation of World Bank (at that time known as International bank for Reconstruction and Development) resolved the ‘Indus River Waters Dispute’.

On 25^th june 1975 President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, upon advice by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency under  Article 352  on the ground of ‘internal disturbances'

Amnesty International is a non-governmental organisation focused on human rights.