EPT – Environment Performance Index
NASI – National Academy of Science, India
SPSS – Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SFC – Strategic Forces Command
DRDO – Defense Research and development Organization
DTAA – Double Taxation of direct Agreement
CBDT – Central Board of Direct Taxes
SPACE – Science Popularization Association of Communicators and educators
SOHO – Solar and HelioSpheric Observatory
DAYS & DATES
August 1 – World Breast-feeding Week
August 3 – Friendship Day
August 6 – Anti Nuclear Day
August 6 – Hiroshima Day
August 9 – Nagasaki Day
August 9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
August 12 – International Youth Day
August 13 – World Left Hander’s Day
August 15 – International Mourning Day
August 19 – World Humanitarian Day
August 19 – World Photography Day
August 20 – World Mosquito Day
August 23 – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
August 20 -Namibia Day