Friendship Day – 4th August  Friendship Day is celebrated on the 4th of August every year. It is the day to recognise our friends and their contribution to our life. A friend is the one, who convinces you that there is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. A true friend is the person who comes to your aid in the times of distress. A little support by...

Global Day of Action – 15th July The Global Day of Action popularly known as ‘GDA’ is a day of awareness against waste burning. The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) has on the occasion of GDA called for a worldwide ban on burn technologies. This very day is marked by the global release of a report, “Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology.” A release was issued citing waste burning of all...

World Population Day – 11th July Celebration of world population day is an awareness campaign on the implication of increasing population in the country. Our government makes 5-year plans for growth and development. But these plans are forfeited due to tremendous growth in the population over the years. Hence the growth and development of a country depends upon its stable population. The population could be stable only when every family, the...

Rabies Day – 6th July Rabies Day celebration is an awareness programme to highlight the lexity of the disease, Rabies is caused by bitting of infected dogs, monkeys etc. The celebration of this Day endeavours to incite public interest towards preventing the high incidence of rabies in India. It is celebrated on 6th July to salute Louis Pasteur, a scientist, for discovering the first successful anti-rabies vaccine on July 6, 1885....

Bank Day – 1st July Bank Day is celebrated on 1st July every year. Banks are those institutions, where one can keep money in the form of deposits and can also borrow money on payment of interest with certain conditions. In the beginning, the Britishers started and opened Imperial banks for the benefit of the masses. But after Indian Independence, Indian leaders felt the need of state banks for the development...

Doctor’s Day – 1st July Doctors Day is celebrated on 1st July every year to commemorate the birth anniversary as also the date of demise of a great patriot and eminent physician, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy. Dr. Roy was the architect of West Bengal. He was a world-class doctor as well as an honest politician. He received Bharat Ratna in 1961 for his noble services to our nation, India. A doctor...

Cycle Day – 31st May Cycle Day is celebrated on 31st May as an awareness campaign among people to understand the intrinsic value of cycle for communication. Although it is the smallest vehicle, yet it plays a great role in the movement of, to and fro for the common people. It was invented by a British man, named Firck Patric Macmillan. But for the first time in the year 1868 on...

Mount Everest Day – 29th May Mount Everest Day is celebrated on the 29th of May as a remembrance day. On this day in 1953. Himalaya’s highest peak Mount Everest was scaled and touched by man for the first time. The duo, Tenzing Norgay with Sir Edmund Hillary scaled the highest peak of the world. They showed that nothing is impossible in this world if done with determination and perseverance. The...