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The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization (Latin: Pontificium Consilium de Nova Evangelizatione), also translated as Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, is a dicastery of the Roman Curia whose creation was announced by Pope Benedict XVI at vespers on 28 June 2010, eve of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, to carry out the New Evangelization. The Pope said that "the process of secularisation has produced a serious crisis of the sense of the Christian faith and role of the Church", and the new pontifical council would "promote a renewed evangelisation" in countries where the Church has long existed "but which are living a progressive secularisation of society and a sort of 'eclipse of the sense of God'."

On 30 June 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed as its first President Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, until then President of the Pontifical Academy for Life. On 13 May 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Jose Octavio Ruiz Arenas as the first Secretary of the Pontifical Council. Archbishop Ruiz Arenas had been serving as the Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and had served as the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio in Villavicencio, Colombia. The 66-year-old prelate is a native of Colombia. That same day, Monsignor Graham Bell, formerly the Secretary Coordinator of the Pontifical Academy for Life, was named the Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council.

On Friday, 25 January 2013, Pope Benedict XVI, in an Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio (on his own initiative), transferred the oversight of catechesis from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization (catechesis is the use of catechists, clergy, and other individuals to teach and inform those in the Church, those interested in the Church, and catechumens- those joining the Church through Baptism and/or Confirmation- about the faith and its structure and tenets).

INFO: Full form for PEP Kits is Post Exposure Prophylaxis kits in Governmental category

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INFO: Full form for PEEST is Political Economic Environmental Social Technology in Governmental category
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INFO: Full form for PEETHA is People’s Empowerment - Enabling Transparency and Accountability (India) in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for ADCCS is Air Defense Command and Control System in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for DME3 is Draftsman (electrical) Petty Officer 3rd Class in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for NSDCC is Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for CERTA is Closer Economic Relations and Trade Agreement in Governmental category
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INFO: Full form for FOMF is Financial Organization Master File in Governmental category
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INFO: Full form for CERTEX is Certification Excerice in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for CERSAI is Central Registry of Securitisation Assest Reconstruction and Security Interest of India in Governmental category
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INFO: Full form for DME (NCTR) is Division of Molecular Epidemiology (NCTR) in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for DPHSWD is Division of Public Health Systems and Workforce Development in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for GCHQ is Government Communications HeadQuarters in Governmental category
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INFO: Full form for TIMEREQ is Time Request in Governmental category

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INFO: Full form for WBITS is Web Based Integrated Training System in Governmental category

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Government Communications Headquarters, commonly known as GCHQ, is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Based at "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the responsibility of the country's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Foreign Secretary), but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its Director ranks as a Permanent Secretary.

GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and was known under that name until 1946. During the Second World War it was located at Bletchley Park, where it was responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes. There are two main components of the GCHQ, the Composite Signals Organisation (CSO), which is responsible for gathering information, and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which is responsible for securing the UK's own communications. The Joint Technical Language Service (JTLS) is a small department and cross-government resource responsible for mainly technical language support and translation and interpreting services across government departments. It is co-located with GCHQ for administrative purposes.

In 2013, GCHQ received considerable media attention when the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the agency was in the process of collecting all online and telephone data in the UK via the Tempora programme. Snowden's revelations began a spate of ongoing disclosures of global surveillance. The Guardian newspaper was then forced to destroy all files given to them by Snowden because of the threats of a lawsuit under the Official Secrets Act.

INFO: Full form for CLERK is Computerized Law Enforcement Record Keeping in Governmental category

Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (Audit Reform & Corporate Disclosure) Act 2004, commonly called CLERP 9, modified the Corporations Act 2001 (Commonwealth) which governs corporate law in Australia. It was enacted in July 2004.

The changes were based on the reform proposals contained in the CLERP 9 discussion paper, Corporation disclosure - strengthening the financial reporting framework, which was released by the Australian government in September 2002. The 2004 amendments also enacted some reforms flowing from the recommendations in the Report of the HIH Insurance Royal Commission released in April 2003.

The important reforms to the Corporations Act included:

The CLERP 9 changes were intended to improve investor confidence in relation to listed corporations and their financial reports. The evidence regarding their effectiveness in this regard remains mixed. There is some evidence that changes affecting the board of directors were more important to small shareholders than large shareholders. The costs and benefits of changes affecting auditors remain more contentious.

INFO: Full form for CLETN is California Law Enforcement Telecommunications Network in Governmental category

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A hovertrain is a type of high-speed train that replaces conventional steel wheels with hovercraft lift pads, and the conventional railway bed with a paved road-like surface, known as the track or guideway. The concept aims to eliminate rolling resistance and allow very high performance, while also simplifying the infrastructure needed to lay new lines.

Hovertrains were seen as a relatively low-risk and low-cost way to develop high-speed inter-city train service, in an era when conventional rail seemed stuck to speeds around 140 mph (230 km/h) or less. By the late 1960s, major development efforts were underway in France, the UK and the USA. While they were being developed, British Rail was running an extensive study of the problems being seen at high speeds on conventional rails. This led to a series of new high-speed train designs in the 1970s, starting with their own APT. Although the hovertrains still had reduced infrastructure costs compared to the APT and similar designs like the TGV, in practice this was offset by their need for entirely new lines. Conventional wheeled trains could run at low speed on existing lines, greatly reducing capital expenditures in urban areas. Interest in hovertrains waned, and major development had ended by the mid-1970s.

Hovertrains were also developed for smaller systems, including personal rapid transit systems that were a hot topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this role their ability to float over small imperfections and debris on the "rails" was a practical advantage, although it competed with the maglev concept that had the same advantages. The only hovertain to see commercial service was the Otis Hovair system. Originally developed at General Motors as an automated guideway transit system, GM was forced to divest the design as part of an antitrust ruling. The design eventually ended up at Otis Elevator who later replaced its linear motor with a cable pull and sold the resulting design for people mover installations all over the world.

Hovertrain is a generic term, and the vehicles are more commonly referred to by their project names where they were developed. In the UK they are known as tracked hovercraft, in the US they are tracked air-cushion vehicles. The hovertrain was originally developed by Jean Bertin (1917-1975) in France, where they were marketed as the Aérotrain (1965-1977), before it was eventually abandoned by the French government.

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INFO: Full form for TACWARS is Tactical Air Warfare Simulation in Governmental category

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The Municipal Integrated Emergency Response Team (MIERT) was an emergency response unit formed as a joint venture of police agencies in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It was formed in 2006 and is composed of members of the Delta Police Department, the Abbotsford Police Department, the New Westminster Police Service, and the Port Moody Police Department. In 2013 the MIERT was disbanded and the Abbotsford Police Department formed its own Emergency Response Team. The remaining services have decided to either combine or contract their teams with the Vancouver Police Department (Delta Police Department, Port Moody Police Department) or contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (New Westminster Police Service).

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The Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC; Arabic: التحالف الإسلامي العسكري لمحاربة الإرهاب‎) is an intergovernmental counter-terrorist alliance of countries in the Muslim world, united around military intervention against ISIL and other counter-terrorist activities. Its creation was first announced by Saudi Arabian defence minister Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, on 15 December 2015. The alliance was to have a joint operations center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

When the coalition was announced there were 34 members. Additional countries joined and the number of members reached 41 when Oman joined in December 2016. On 6 January 2017, the Pakistani former chief of Army Staff, General (retd.) Raheel Sharif was named the IMCTC's first commander-in-chief. Most of its participants are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

INFO: Full form for SCATANA is Security Control of Air Traffic and Navigation Aids in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for NIMUN is Navrachana International Model United Nations in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for NSPIS is National Strategy for Police Information Systems in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for FOIB (CDRH) is Freedom of Information Branch (CDRH) in Governmental category

INFO: Full form for NTIAC is Nondestructive Testing Information Analysis Center in Governmental category