{"id":12934,"date":"2023-07-09T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12934"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:27:22","slug":"south-asian-university-sau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/south-asian-university-sau\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asian University (SAU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About South Asian University (SAU):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAU is an <strong>intergovernmental university funded by the governments of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The University is currently f<strong>unctioning from Akbar Bhawan Campus in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It falls under the <strong>purview of the Ministry of External Affairs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its degrees are accredited in and <strong>recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) <\/strong>and its equivalents in all the eight SAARC countries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The university <strong>offers graduate and doctoral level courses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is SAARC?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>SAARC is an <strong>economic and political regional organisation of countries in South Asia set up in 1985.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It aims to accelerate the process of <strong>economic and social development in its member states <\/strong>through increased <strong>intra-regional cooperation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Secretariat<\/strong> of the Association was set up i<strong>n Kathmandu, Nepal<\/strong>, on 17 January 1987.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>SAARC has <strong>eight member countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is BIMSTEC?<\/h3>\n<p>The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization that was established on 06 June 1997 with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration. Initially known as BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation), the organisation is now known as BIMSTEC and comprises seven Member States:Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/delhi\/sau-faculty-members-suspension-500-scholars-write-to-saarc-8818582\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>4 SAU faculty members suspended: 500 scholars write to SAARC, foreign ministers of member countries<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAU is an intergovernmental university funded by the governments of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}