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National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), India's constitutional body under Article 338A, set up 19 February 2004; monitors safeguards for Scheduled Tribes, inquires into complaints, and reports annually to the President.
National Commission for Women (राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग)
The National Commission for Women (राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग) is a statutory body of the Government of India set up in 1992 to safeguard women's rights.
National Committee (1848)
The National Committee (Czech: Národní výbor) was the leading political organ of the Czech national movement in Prague during the Revolution of 1848, dissolved after the June uprising was suppressed.
National Committee for the Administration of Gaza
The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, or Gaza Administration Committee, is a technocratic body led by Ali Shaath, created in 2026 to manage Gaza's daily public services.
National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State
The National Committee for the Restoration of Democracy and State (CNRDRE) was the Malian military junta led by Captain Amadou Sanogo that overthrew President Touré in March 2012.
National Committee for the Salvation of the People
The National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) was the military junta that seized power in Mali in the August 2020 coup, led by Colonel Assimi Goïta.
National Committee of Reconciliation and Development
The National Committee of Reconciliation and Development (CNRD) is the military junta that has ruled Guinea since its September 2021 coup led by Mamadi Doumbouya.
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议全国委员会)
The CPPCC National Committee (中国人民政治协商会议全国委员会) is China's top political advisory body, a patriotic united front organization, not a state organ. It meets each March with the NPC in the Two Sessions.
National Committee of the Republic of Estonia
The National Committee of the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariigi Rahvuskomitee) was an underground body formed in German-occupied Estonia in 1944 that prepared a constitutional government to restore independence.
National Compact Stellarator Experiment
The National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) was an uncompleted stellarator fusion experiment designed by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, canceled by the Department of Energy in 2008.
National Company Law Appellate Tribunal
National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT, राष्ट्रीय कम्पनी विधि अपील अधिकरण): India's appellate tribunal under Section 410, Companies Act 2013, effective 1 June 2016, hearing appeals from NCLT on company law and IBC matters, CCI orders, and NFRA orders.
National Company Law Tribunal
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is India's quasi-judicial tribunal for company law disputes and corporate insolvency, constituted under the Companies Act, 2013 and effective from 1 June 2016.
National Company QazaqGaz
National Company QazaqGaz, formerly KazTransGaz, is Kazakhstan's state-owned national gas company, operating more than 20,600 km of trunk pipelines and transiting Russian gas to Uzbekistan.
National Concert Hall, Taipei
The National Concert Hall is a shoebox-shaped classical music venue in Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall grounds, opened in 1987 with 2,022 seats and a large Flentrop pipe organ.
National Conference of Bishops of Brazil
The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil, CNBB) is the institution gathering Brazil's Catholic bishops, founded in 1952 and based in Brasília.
National Congress of British West Africa
The National Congress of British West Africa, led by Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford, was an inter-territorial nationalist movement founded in Accra in 1920 to demand constitutional reform.
National Congress of Chile
National Congress of Chile (Congreso Nacional de Chile), bicameral legislature (Senate and Chamber of Deputies) seated in Valparaíso; first met 4 July 1811, dissolved 1973–1990, now 155 deputies and 50 senators.
National conservatism
National conservatism, often shortened to NatCon, is a right-wing political movement and school of thought tying conservative politics to the nation-state, organized from 2019 by Yoram Hazony's Edmund Burke Foundation.
National contractor associations and the geography of the civil engineering industry
National contractor associations are trade bodies representing civil engineering contractors to government on contracts, wages, and procurement, federating through FIEC in Europe, CICA globally, and national bodies like India's BAI.
National Convention
The National Convention (Convention nationale) was France's unicameral revolutionary assembly, 21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795, 749 deputies, first universal male suffrage, abolished the monarchy, ruled during the Terror, and produced the Constitution of Year III.
National conventions for writing telephone numbers
National conventions for writing telephone numbers, also called phone number conventions, are the rules each country applies when printing or storing numbers, governed internationally by ITU-T E.123 since 1988.
National Council for Peace and Order
National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), Thailand's military junta from the May 22, 2014 coup led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha until its dissolution on July 17, 2019; ruled via Section 44 decree powers, repressing expression and assembly, and shaped the 2017 constitution and 2019 election.
National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF)
The National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF) is the Chinese state institution managing the National Social Security Fund, a pension reserve fund established in August 2000.
National Council for Teacher Education (राष्ट्रीय अध्यापक शिक्षा परिषद)
National Council for Teacher Education (राष्ट्रीय अध्यापक शिक्षा परिषद, NCTE) is India's statutory teacher education regulator under the NCTE Act 1993, established 17 August 1995, with four Regional Committees, ITEP transition rules, and draft 2025 regulations.
National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy
The CNDD-FDD is a Burundian political party that began as the largest Hutu rebel movement in the 1993–2005 civil war and first won power in 2005.
National Council of Educational Research and Training
The National Council of Educational Research and Training, known as NCERT, is an autonomous Indian government body, founded in 1961 and headquartered in New Delhi, that publishes model school textbooks.
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) is the nonprofit organization of US licensing boards that develops the FE and PE engineering exams.
National Council of Government (Uruguay)
The National Council of Government (Consejo Nacional de Gobierno, CNG) was a nine-member collegial executive that governed Uruguay from 1952 to 1967, created by the 1952 Constitution and abolished when the 1967 Constitution restored the presidency.
National Council of Korean Trade Unions
The National Council of Korean Trade Unions, known in Korean as Chonpyong, was a left-wing national federation of industrial unions founded in Seoul in 1945 and dissolved in 1948.
National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) was a Nigerian political party founded in 1944 by Herbert Macaulay and Nnamdi Azikiwe to campaign for independence.