Children's Day is celebrated in India on 14 November to mark the birth anniversary of which leader?
- A.Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- B.Jawaharlal Nehru
- C.Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
- D.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Jawaharlal Nehru. India's first Prime Minister was born on 14 November 1889, and because of his known fondness for children, who called him Chacha Nehru, his birthday was adopted as Children's Day after his death in 1964.
Option A, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, was born on 3 December, a date now marked as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities rather than as any anniversary of his. Option C, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, was born on 5 September, which India observes as Teachers' Day, and swapping Teachers' Day with Children's Day is the commonest error in this pair. Option D, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, was born on 11 November, observed as National Education Day, so his date falls in the same month and only three days earlier, which makes him the sharpest distractor here. The United Nations separately observes World Children's Day on 20 November.
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Practice Questions
View allNational Education Day is observed in India on which date?
- A.5 September
- B.11 November
- C.14 November
- D.26 November
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The date is the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, born in 1888, who was independent India's first Minister of Education and the moving spirit behind the founding of the University Grants Commission and the Indian Institutes of Technology.
Read the full explanation →Constitution Day is observed in India on 26 November because on that day in 1949 the Constituent Assembly did which of the following?
- A.Held its first sitting
- B.Adopted the Constitution of India
- C.Brought the Constitution into force
- D.Elected the Drafting Committee
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The Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted and gave to itself the Constitution on 26 November 1949, and the Government of India has observed the date as Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Divas, since 2015.
Read the full explanation →National Milk Day is observed in India on 26 November to mark the birth anniversary of which person?
- A.M. S. Swaminathan
- B.Verghese Kurien
- C.Tribhuvandas Patel
- D.Norman Borlaug
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Born on 26 November 1921, Kurien is called the Father of the White Revolution in India. He built the Amul cooperative at Anand in Gujarat and led Operation Flood, the programme that made India the largest producer of milk in the world, and the day has been observed since 2014.
Read the full explanation →World AIDS Day is observed every year on which date?
- A.1 December
- B.7 December
- C.10 December
- D.2 December
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World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988 and was the first global health day of its kind, set aside to spread awareness of HIV and AIDS and to remember those who have died of the disease.
Read the full explanation →National Pollution Control Day is observed on 2 December in memory of which event?
- A.The Chernobyl nuclear accident
- B.The Bhopal gas tragedy
- C.The signing of the Kyoto Protocol
- D.The Stockholm Conference on the environment
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On the night of 2 and 3 December 1984 methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal and killed thousands of people, in what remains the worst industrial disaster in India.
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