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The ninth Asian Games at New Delhi in 1982 were the first Games organised under the newly formed Olympic Council of Asia, and their elephant mascot became one of the best remembered images in Indian sport.

His idea led to the formation of the Asian Games Federation at New Delhi in 1949 and to the first Games there in 1951.

The motto was adopted with the first Asian Games of 1951 at New Delhi and it goes with the emblem of a bright rising sun ringed by interlocking circles, which stands for the new energy of the Asian nations after the Second World War.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in March 1951, two years after the Asian Games Federation was formed in the same city, and eleven nations took part.

The day marks the first voyage of an Indian owned merchant ship from Mumbai to Britain in 1919, a landmark in the history of Indian shipping, and it is observed to recognise the role of the merchant navy in trade.

The day recalls the speech of 1962 in which the rights of the consumer were first set out formally before the United States Congress, and it is now used worldwide to press for fair treatment of buyers.

Earth Day began in the United States in 1970 as a demonstration in support of environmental protection and is now observed in many countries as a day for action on pollution, climate and conservation.

The day was proposed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and later approved by UNESCO, and it is used to draw attention to the protection of monuments, historic places and cultural landscapes.

The amendment of 1992 gave panchayati raj institutions constitutional standing by adding Part IX and the Eleventh Schedule, and it took effect on 24 April 1993, which is why that date was chosen for the observance.

The day is observed across the country and is a public holiday in many states.

He presented his finding to an audience of physicians in Berlin on 24 March 1882, and identifying the organism opened the way to diagnosis and eventually to treatment of a disease that was then a leading cause of death.

The United Nations chose this date because the international convention on trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora was signed on 3 March, and the day is used to draw attention to wild animals and plants and to the trade that threatens them.

The three revolutionaries were hanged in Lahore jail on 23 March 1931 in connection with the Lahore conspiracy case, and the day is observed in their memory across the country.

The constitution of the organisation took effect on 7 April 1948, and that date was chosen for the annual observance, which has been held since 1950 with a different subject each year.

The day grew out of the movements for women's rights in the early twentieth century and is now observed across the world, with the United Nations adopting a different subject for it each year while the date itself stays fixed.

The United Nations observes this day to draw attention to fresh water and the management of water resources, and in India the same date is also kept as Bihar Diwas, which makes it doubly useful for examinations.

The Golden Threshold was her first collection of poems, and it was followed by The Bird of Time and The Broken Wing.

He ran Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English, and it was through the writing in Kesari that he reached ordinary readers in Maharashtra, a reach that also brought him prosecutions for sedition.

Nehru wrote the letters from prison, telling her the story of the world from ancient times onwards, and they were later collected as Glimpses of World History.

Gandhi wrote the book in Gujarati on board the ship while returning from a deputation to London, casting it as a dialogue between an editor and a reader in which he explains what true self-rule means and criticises modern industrial civilisation.