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National Disaster Management Authority (राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण) (India)
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA, राष्ट्रीय आपदा प्रबंधन प्राधिकरण) is India's apex disaster management body under the Disaster Management Act 2005, chaired by the Prime Minister, issuing policies, guidelines, and the SACHET alert system.
National Disaster Response Force
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), India's specialized disaster response force raised 19 January 2006 under the Disaster Management Act 2005; 16 battalions of 1,149 personnel, deputationists from CAPFs and Assam Rifles, 28 Regional Response Centres, four more battalions approved.
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) is Nepal's apex disaster agency, established December 2019 under the DRRM Act 2017 within the Ministry of Home Affairs, operating BIPAD, DIMS, and Setu Rapid coordination platforms.
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), formerly the NDCC, is the Philippines' national disaster coordinating body chaired by the Defense Secretary under RA 10121 (2010), with DILG, DSWD, DOST, and NEDA vice chairs, an OCD secretariat, and the NDRRMF calamity fund.
National dish
National dish: a country's most representative or iconic food, usually unofficial. Also called iconic national foods. Status arises by collective recognition, not law; examples include currywurst, chicken tikka masala, and rendang, while Mexico, China, India, and the US have none.
National Do Not Call List
The National Do Not Call List, also known as the Canadian DNCL, is Canada's registry of telephone numbers telemarketers generally may not call, run by the CRTC since 2008.
National Do Not Call Registry
The National Do Not Call Registry is the FTC-run U.S. list of phone numbers whose owners opt out of most telemarketing sales calls. Opened June 2003, free, permanent since 2007, 259 million active registrations as of FY 2025, with exemptions for political, charity, survey, and business-relationship calls.
National Doctors' Day
National Doctors' Day, observed in the United States on March 30, honors physicians. Begun in 1933 in Winder, Georgia, by Eudora Brown Almond, it marks Crawford Long's 1842 first use of anesthesia; Congress made it official in 1990.
National documentary film traditions and classification by country and year
National documentary film traditions: country-specific nonfiction filmmaking shaped by state institutions, from Grierson's British movement (1926–1948) and Canada's NFB to Iranian ethnographic film, plus how catalogs and databases classify documentaries by country of origin and year.
National Early Warning Score
The National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) is a bedside scoring system used in UK hospitals that scores six vital signs from 0 to 20 to detect patient deterioration.
National Education Association
The National Education Association (NEA), founded 1857 in Philadelphia as the National Teachers Association, is the largest US teachers' union, federally chartered since 1906, with about 2.85 million members and a delegate Representative Assembly.
National Education Policy 2020
National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), approved 29 July 2020, is India's third national education policy, replacing the 1986 policy. It introduces the 5+3+3+4 school structure, targets 50% higher education GER by 2035, and drives ongoing implementation reforms.
National Educational Television
National Educational Television (NET), founded 1952 as the Educational Television and Radio Center by the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education, was the American noncommercial educational TV network and PBS's direct predecessor, ending with its 1972 merger into WNET.
National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program is a US federal grant program created by the 2021 infrastructure law, providing $5 billion to build public EV charging stations.
National Electric Vehicle Sweden
National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) is a Swedish electric-vehicle company in Trollhättan, founded in 2012 by Kai Johan Jiang to build electric cars from bankrupt Saab Automobile's assets.
National Electrical Code
The National Electrical Code (NEC), published by the National Fire Protection Association as NFPA 70, is the US model code for safe electrical wiring and equipment, first published in 1897.
National Electrical Safety Code
The National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), designated ANSI C2, is an American National Standard published by the IEEE covering safe installation and maintenance of utility lines.
National Electronic Funds Transfer
National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) is a Reserve Bank of India payment system, introduced in 2005, that settles fund transfers in half-hourly batches 24x7 with no maximum limit.
National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate)
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET (UG), is India's common entrance examination for undergraduate medical admission, conducted by the National Testing Agency.
National emblem of East Germany
National emblem of East Germany (Staatswappen der DDR): hammer and compasses in a grain wreath with black-red-gold ribbon; on the GDR flag from 1959; removed from buildings by Volkskammer order in 1990.
National Emergencies Act
The National Emergencies Act (NEA, Public Law 94-412, 1976) is the U.S. statute governing presidential national emergency declarations: it requires Federal Register publication, specification of invoked powers, six-month expenditure reports, annual renewal, and congressional termination by joint resolution, which since a 1983 Supreme Court ruling requires a veto-proof majority.
National Endowment for Democracy
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a private nonprofit grantmaking foundation created by the U.S. Congress in 1983 under the NED Act; funds pro-democracy groups in over 100 countries through four core institutes, with over $2 billion appropriated FY 2017–2025.
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): independent U.S. federal agency created by the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act; funds humanities research, education, preservation, and public programs through peer-reviewed grants in all 56 states and jurisdictions.
National Energy Administration (China)
The National Energy Administration (国家能源局) is the agency of China's State Council that manages the energy sector, established in March 2008 and supervised by the NDRC.
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the Department of Energy Office of Science supercomputing facility, operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and serving almost 10,000 scientists since 1974.
National Energy System Operator
The National Energy System Operator (NESO), formerly National Grid ESO, is Great Britain's publicly owned electricity system operator, created on 1 October 2024 when the government bought National Grid's ESO for £630 million.
National Energy Technology Laboratory
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is a US Department of Energy national laboratory for hydrocarbons, geothermal energy, and critical minerals, the only government-operated DOE lab.
National Energy Transition Roadmap (Malaysia)
The National Energy Transition Roadmap (Pelan Hala Tuju Peralihan Tenaga Negara) is Malaysia's plan for shifting from fossil fuels to cleaner energy, launched in 2023.
National Enquirer
The National Enquirer is an American weekly supermarket tabloid published in New York, known for sensational celebrity headlines, checkbook journalism, and breaking political sex scandals.
National Environmental Policy Act
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), US federal law signed January 1, 1970, requiring environmental review of major federal actions through categorical exclusions, environmental assessments, and environmental impact statements, overseen by the Council on Environmental Quality.