World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2nd February. This year?s World Wetlands Day under the theme of "Wetlands and Climate Change".
International day of sign language is celebrated annually across the world on 23rd september along with International Week of the Deaf.
National Statistics day is celebrated annually 29th June, on the occasion of Birth anniversary of India?s eminent statistician Late Prof Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.
It also commemorates the contributions made by PC Mahalanobis in the fields of statistics and economic planning.
The government has decided to observe anti-Emergency day on June 25-26 and asked all its ministers to hold programmes across the country to remind people how Emergency was clamped by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975.
June 21St has been declared as the "International Yoga Day" by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 2014. The declaration came after the call for adoption of this day by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014.
21st June, 2017 is the 3rd International Yoga Day.
The United Nations has marked the first World Tuna Day (WTD) on May 2, 2017 to conserve one of the globe?s most popular fish to be caught and eaten and to highlight the vital socio-economic importance of tuna to people around the world. Tuna plays a critical role in sustainable development, food security, economic opportunity, and livelihoods of people around the world. At present more than 80 States have tuna fisheries, thousands of tuna fishing vessels operate in all the oceans and tuna fishery capacity is still growing in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Day was designated in December 2016 resolution of the UN General Assembly.
World Pulses Day is a new opportunity to heighten public awareness of the nutritional benefits of eating pulses. In 2019, 10th February is celebrated as first ever World Pulses Day.
Every year on 24th October, United Nations Day is celebrated to commemorate the day of United Nations formation.
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. I was started on 24 October 1945.
On October 15, the United Nations commemorates the International Day of Rural Women.This year the theme is 'Sustainable infrastructure, services and social protection for gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.
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