The World Heritage Committee Bureau of the World Heritage Committee World Heritage Committee Members The World Heritage Committee meets once a year, and consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention elected by their General Assembly. At its first session, the Committee adopted its Rules ofContinue Reading

Bank Ki-Moon     –     Secretary General,UN Asha-Rose Migiro    –  First Deputy Secretary General,UN Robert Zoellick     –    President,World Bank Koichiro Matsuura (Japan)  –  Director-General,UNESCO Margaret Chan(China)  -Director-General,World Health Organisation(WHO) Hosni Mubarak(Egypt)    –      Chairman,NAM Jacques Diouf   – Director    General,FAO Haruhiko Kuroda(Japan)    – President ,ADB Dominique Strauss-Khan(France) – President,IMF JaapContinue Reading

The National Innovation Council Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved the setting up of a National Innovation Council to prepare a road map for the ‘Decade of Innovation 2011-2020’. Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister on public information infrastructure and innovations, will head the National Innovation Council. The CouncilContinue Reading