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Martyrs' Day is recognised nationally on 30 January to mark the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, by Nathuram Godse. [1] On Martyrs' Day the President, the Vice President, the Prime Minister, the Defence Minister, the Chief of Defence Staff and the three Service Chiefs gather at the samadhi at Raj Ghat memorial and lay wreaths decorated ...
Martyrs' Day are days observed in or by some countries, incl. the United States, Japan, India, Brazil, Canada and Australia, to recognise martyrs such as soldiers, revolutionaries or victims of genocide. Below is a list of various Martyrs' Days for different countries of the World.
21 February 2025 (2025-02-21) Frequency. Annual. International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism. First announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999, [1] it was formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly ...
Brig.-Gen. [4] R. E. H. Dyer, in charge of 51 soldiers of the 9th Gurkha Rifles and 54th Sikhs [5] [6] The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during the annual Baishakhi fair to protest ...
Martyr's Day. The 21 July Martyr's Day Rally is an annual mass rally organized by the West Bengal unit of the Indian National Congress and later the Trinamool Congress to commemorate the 1993 Kolkata firing as Martys' Day. It is in remembrance of 13 people shot by the West Bengal Police in Kolkata, during a rally by the West Bengal Youth ...
Signature. Bhagat Singh (28 September 1907 [1] – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary, [3] who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 [4] in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. [5] He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central ...
30 May 2019 - Narendra Modi visited National War Memorial and paid tribute to India's martyrs before taking oath as the Prime Minister of India for the second time. [35] 15 August 2019 - The President of India placed a wreath and observed 2 minutes silence to pay tribute to the soldiers on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day for the first ...
The Bengali language movement ( Bengali: বাংলা ভাষা আন্দোলন, romanized : Bangla Bhasha Andolôn) was a political movement in former East Bengal (renamed East Pakistan, now Bangladesh) in 1952 advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co- lingua franca of the then- Dominion of Pakistan to allow its ...