Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is observed on which date?
- A.9 January
- B.12 January
- C.26 January
- D.30 January
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, 9 January. The date was chosen because Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on 9 January 1915, and his return is treated as the most significant homecoming of an Indian from abroad. The day honours the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the country's development.
Option B, 12 January, is National Youth Day for Swami Vivekananda's birth anniversary. Option C, 26 January, is Republic Day, when the Constitution came into force in 1950. Option D, 30 January, is Martyrs' Day, marking Gandhi's assassination in 1948, and it is a strong distractor because it too is connected with Gandhi. This is a good reminder that January carries two Gandhi dates for different reasons, the return from South Africa on the 9th and the assassination on the 30th.
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Practice Questions
View allNational Youth Day is observed in India on 12 January to mark the birth anniversary of whom?
- A.Subhas Chandra Bose
- B.Lala Lajpat Rai
- C.Swami Vivekananda
- D.Bhagat Singh
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The Government of India chose his birth anniversary for National Youth Day because his writings and speeches were addressed above all to the young, and his address at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 remains the best known moment of his life.
Read the full explanation →Indian Army Day is celebrated every year on which date?
- A.4 December
- B.15 January
- C.8 October
- D.26 January
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On that date in 1949, Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from the last British officer to hold the post, and the day marks the passing of command into Indian hands.
Read the full explanation →World Wetlands Day, observed on 2 February, marks the signing of which international agreement?
- A.Basel Convention
- B.CITES
- C.Montreal Protocol
- D.Ramsar Convention
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Wetlands listed for protection under the treaty are called Ramsar sites, and the name of the town has become the name of the agreement.
Read the full explanation →National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February in memory of which event?
- A.The discovery of the neutron
- B.The announcement of the Raman Effect
- C.The discovery of penicillin
- D.The launch of the satellite Aryabhata
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C. V. Raman announced his discovery of the scattering of light that carries his name on 28 February 1928, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1930.
Read the full explanation →International Mother Language Day is observed every year on which date?
- A.10 January
- B.13 February
- C.21 February
- D.26 January
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The day was declared by UNESCO to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and to protect languages that are dying out, and the date recalls the language movement in Dhaka in 1952, in which students were killed while demanding recognition for Bengali.
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