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FEBRUARY 02 World Wetlands DayWorld Wetlands Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in Ramsar, Iran. It commemorates the need to maintain the ecological character of wetlands and to plan for its sustainable use. Wetlands and Biodiversity is the theme for 2020. Wetlands are rich with biodiversity and are a habitat for a dense variety of plant and animal species. Latest estimates show a global decline of biodiversity, while wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests. This year's theme is a unique opportunity to highlight wetland biodiversity, its status, why it matters and promote actions to reverse its loss.
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FEBRUARY 04 World Cancer Day World Cancer Day is organized globally to highlight the wide range of actions necessary to effectively prevent, treat and control the many forms of cancer. The theme of the World Cancer Day for the years from 2019 to 2021 is “I AM AND I WILL”. ‘I Am and I Will’ is an empowering call-to-action urging for personal commitment and represents the power of individual action taken now to impact the future.
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FEBRUARY 13 World Radio Day World Radio Day
World Radio Day is observed to commemorate the day on which the United Nations Radio was established in 1946.
Radio is the mass media reaching the widest audience in the world. It is also recognized as a powerful communication tool and a low cost medium. Radio is specifically suited to reach remote communities and vulnerable people: the illiterate, the disabled, women, youth and the poor, while offering a platform to intervene in the public debate, irrespective of people’s educational level. Furthermore, radio has a strong and specific role in emergency communication and disaster relief. Though new technological media forms such as broadband, mobiles and tablets are there; about a billion people still do not have access to radio today. World Radio Day marks a time where people around the world celebrate radio and how it shapes our lives. Radio brings together people and communities from all backgrounds to foster positive dialogue for change.
“We are Diversity, we are Radio” is the theme of World Radio Day-2020. On World Radio Day 2020, UNESCO calls on radio stations to uphold diversity, both in their newsroom and on the airwaves advocating for pluralism in radio, including a mix of public, private and community broadcasters; encouraging representation in the newsroom, with teams comprised of diverse society groups; and promoting a diversity of editorial content and programme types reflecting the variety of the audiences.
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FEBRUARY 14 Valentine's Day Saint Valentine's Day, the Feast of Saint Valentine is celebrated as Valentine's Day all over the world
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FEBRUARY 20 World Day of Social JusticeWorld Day of Social Justice
Social Equality Justice day is a day recognizing the need to promote efforts to deal with issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment. Observance of World Day of Social Justice would support efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment and decent work, gender equity and access to social well-being and justice for all. The theme for the observance of the day is “Closing the Inequalities Gap to Achieve Social Justice”. .
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FEBRARY 21 International Mother Language Day International Mother Language Day has been observed since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue
Languages, with their complex implications for identity, communication, social integration, education and development, are of strategic importance for people and planet. Yet, due to globalization processes, they are increasingly under threat, or disappearing altogether. When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural diversity. Opportunities, traditions, memory, unique modes of thinking and expression — valuable resources for ensuring a better future — are also lost. At least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.
Every two weeks a language disappears taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage.
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FEBRARY 21SivarathriSivarathri is a festival that marks a remembrance of "overcoming darkness and ignorance" in life and the world. It is observed by remembering Shiva and chanting prayers, fasting, and meditating on ethics and virtues such as self-restraint, honesty, non-injury to others, forgiveness, and the discovery of Shiva. Unlike most Hindu festivals which are celebrated during the day, the Maha Shivaratri is celebrated at night. Furthermore, unlike most Hindu festivals which include expression of cultural revelry, the Maha Shivaratri is a solemn event notable for its introspective focus, fasting, and meditation on Shiva, self study, social harmony and an all night vigil at Shiva temples. . It is believed that on this day Lord Siva drank Kalakooda, the poison, to protect the whole world from disaster. On Shivaratri, Shiva, Parvati, and Ganesha are worshipped between midnight and sunrise.
In Kerala, Shivarathri is celebrated during the month of Kumbam (January-February). The festival at Aluva, Vaikom, Ettumanoor and Thali are very famous Sivarathri is also celebrated with great religious fervors at Thripangot, Kallkulangara, Thrissur, Thrikandiyur, Vaikom, Thirunakkara and Attappady Malleswaran Temples of Kerala. Every year hundreds of thousands of believers come to Aluva, a town in Kerala, during Sivaratri to perform poojas for their ancestors. The poojas are performed at the famous Siva temple on the shores of river Periyar.
(Image: Devotees taking a dip in the River Periyar after performing poojas for their ancestors at Aluva) |
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FEBRUARY 24 Central Excise Day Central Excise Day is commemorated to encourage the employees of excise department to carry out the central excise duty in order to prevent the corruption in goods manufacturing
business as well as implement other rules to carry out best possible excise services. Central excise is one of the vital sources of the financial development of the country.
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FEBRUARY 28 National Science DayNational Science Day is used to celebrate every year in India to give due respect to the Raman effect by the Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C.V.Raman). Dr. C. V.Raman was honoured with many awards and also honoured by awarding Nobel Prize in the Subject of Physics in 1930. National Science Day is used to make the people develop every activity with great dedication and idea to perform the activity well for the better future of the people.
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