Tuesday 28 June 2011
Sunday 26 June 2011
International Anti-Drugs Day (june 26)
June 26 is International Day Against Drugs that the international anti-drug day. June 12, 1987 to 26, the United Nations in Vienna, 138 countries, more than 3,000 representatives of Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Ministerial Conference. Session of the "love of life, not drugs" slogan. The participants agreed to June 26 each year as "International Day Against Drugs" to attract the world attention on the drug problem, but called the people together to solve the world drug problem.
Tuesday 21 June 2011
WORLD MUSIC DAY..June 21
History
The idea was first broached in 1976 by American musician Joel Cohen, then employed by the national French radio station France Musique. Cohen proposed an all-night music celebration at the moment of the summer solstice. The idea was taken up by French Music and Dance director Maurice Fleuret for Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1981 and first took place in 1982.
Its purpose is to promote music in two ways:
- Amateur and professional musicians are encouraged to perform in the streets. The slogan Faites de la musique (Make music), a homophone of Fête de la Musique, is used to promote this goal.
- Many free concerts are organized, making all genres of music accessible to the public. Two of the caveats to being sanctioned by the official Fête de la Musique organization in Paris are that all concerts must be free to the public, and all performers donate their time for free. In 2011, the festival utilized online booking site Gigmaven to organize its performers.
Sunday 19 June 2011
FATHERS DAY(THIRD SUNDAY IN JUNE)
Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in many countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother's Day, the celebration honoring mothers.
History
Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities. The first observance of Father's Day actually took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. It was organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton, who wanted to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monongah Mining disaster several months earlier in Monongah, West Virginia, on December 6, 1907. It is possible that Clayton was influenced by the first celebration of Mother's Day that same year, just a few miles away. Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her recently deceased father. Unfortunately, the day was overshadowed by other events in the city, West Virginia did not officially register the holiday, and it was not celebrated again. Instead, credit for Father's Day went to Sonora Dodd from Spokane, who invented independently her own celebration of Father's Day just two years later, also influenced by Jarvis' Mother's Day. Clayton's celebration was forgotten until 1972, when one of the attendants to the celebration saw Nixon's proclamation of Father's Day, and worked to recover its legacy. The celebration is now held every year in the Central United Methodist Church, as the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was torn down in 1922. Fairmont is now promoted as the "Home of the First Father's Day Service".A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are fathers.
WINDOW OF KNOWLEDGE: JUNE 19- OBSERVED AS READING DAY
WINDOW OF KNOWLEDGE: JUNE 19- OBSERVED AS READING DAY: "JUNE 19- OBSERVED AS READING DAY The Education department, in association with the Information and public Relations Department and the P..."
Tuesday 14 June 2011
World Blood Donor Day ( JUNE 14 )
World Blood Donor Day is day dedicated to "thanking and celebrating voluntary non-remunerated blood donors". It occurs on June 14, the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the creator of the ABO blood group system, for which he won the Nobel Prize. The first day was held in 2005.
One of the main goals of the World Blood Donor Day is to ensure the availability of 'safe blood' for transfusion.
Friday 10 June 2011
A LEGEND PASSES AWAY IN EXILE
MAQBOOL FIDA HUSAIN [1915-2011]
BORN : 17 September 1915
DIED : 9 June 2011(Age 95)
NATIONALITY : INDIAN,QATAR
FIELD : PAINTING ,DRAWING . WRITER
TRAINING : SIR J J SCHOOL OF ART
AWARDS : PADMASHRI (1955 )
PADMA BHUSHAN (1973)
PADMA VIBUSHAN (1991)
website : http://www.mfhusain.com/
Maqbool Fida Husain (Hindi: मक़बूल फ़िदा हुसैन, 17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) commonly known as MF, was an eminent Indian painter. According to Forbes magazine, he has been regarded as the "Picasso of India".
Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. After a long career, in 1996, when Husain was 81 years old, controversy arose over paintings originally created in the 1970s which were interpreted by some as being anti-Hindu. After legal cases and death threats in his home country, he was on a self imposed exile from 2006. In January 2010, he was offered the citizenship of Qatar, which he accepted. He died in London in June 2011.
"FOR ME, INDIA MEANS A CELEBRATION ON LIFE.
YOU CANNOT FIND THAT SAME QUALITY
ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD" - M F HUSAIN
BORN : 17 September 1915
DIED : 9 June 2011(Age 95)
NATIONALITY : INDIAN,QATAR
FIELD : PAINTING ,DRAWING . WRITER
TRAINING : SIR J J SCHOOL OF ART
AWARDS : PADMASHRI (1955 )
PADMA BHUSHAN (1973)
PADMA VIBUSHAN (1991)
website : http://www.mfhusain.com/
Maqbool Fida Husain (Hindi: मक़बूल फ़िदा हुसैन, 17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) commonly known as MF, was an eminent Indian painter. According to Forbes magazine, he has been regarded as the "Picasso of India".
Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. After a long career, in 1996, when Husain was 81 years old, controversy arose over paintings originally created in the 1970s which were interpreted by some as being anti-Hindu. After legal cases and death threats in his home country, he was on a self imposed exile from 2006. In January 2010, he was offered the citizenship of Qatar, which he accepted. He died in London in June 2011.
"FOR ME, INDIA MEANS A CELEBRATION ON LIFE.
YOU CANNOT FIND THAT SAME QUALITY
ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD" - M F HUSAIN
Tuesday 7 June 2011
WORLD OCEAN DAY [ JUNE 8 ]
World Oceans Day(June 8)
World Oceans Day, which had been unofficially celebrated every June 8 since its original proposal in 1992 by Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was officially recognized by the United Nations in 2008 Since then it has been coordinated internationally by The Ocean Project and the World Ocean Network with greater success and global participation each year.
Purpose:
World Oceans Day is an opportunity every year to honor the world's ocean, celebrate the products the ocean provides, such as seafood, as well as marine life itself for aquariums, pets, and also a time to appreciate its own intrinsic value. The ocean also provides sea-lanes for international trade. Global pollution and over-consumption of fish have resulted in drastically dwindling population of the majority of species.
The Ocean Project, working in partnership with the World Ocean Network, has been promoting WOD since 2003 with its network of over 1,200 organizations and others throughout the world. These groups have been working to build greater awareness of the crucial role of the ocean in our lives and the important ways people can help. World Oceans Day provides an opportunity to get directly involved in protecting our future, through a new mindset and personal and community action and involvement – beach cleanups, educational programs, art contests, film festivals, sustainable seafood events, and other planned activities help to raise consciousness of how our lives depend on the oceans.
World Oceans Day 2011:
The Ocean Project recently launched a new site for WOD 2011.
The World Oceans Day 2011 & 2012 theme is Youth: the Next Wave for Change. World Ocean Day - The Ocean Project
The aim is to challenge participants to view ocean protection as a way of life, with a special emphasis around World Oceans Day each year.
This focus on youth is based on market research by The Ocean Project and others which clearly shows that youth are the most promising members of the public to reach out to if you want to effect lasting change.
Young people are the most knowledgeable and motivated segment of the population when it comes to the environment and its protection. Youth generally have the free time, familiarity with current issues, and the motivation to go out of their way to take environmental actions. Furthermore, the research shows that parents are increasingly looking to their tween and teenage (i.e. ages 12-17) children for information and advice on these issues.
We hope that event organizers will make a concerted effort to reach out to and collaborate with young people, helping inspire them to care for our world’s ocean, now and throughout their lives.
Monday 6 June 2011
Dr P K Warrier honoured on 90th birthday
"Dr Warrier nurtured a perspective of holistic approach with due respect for other systems of medicine," he added.
Mullappally also lauded his contributions to the medical literature. He mentioned how the hospital conserves and maintains rare medicinal plants at one of the largest medicinal plantations in the country.
Describing eminent ayurvedic physician Dr P K Warrier as a revolutionary socialist, Mullappally recalled Warrier's early days when his affinity for socialism made him one of the pioneering members of the Student Federation, and his strong opposition to fascism and war. "Since Warrier turned to full-scale medical service, Kerala politics lost an incomparable personality who always sticks to truth," he added.
Electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed, who presided over the function, said that P K Warrier and Arya Vaidya Sala made ayurveda more relevant globally through service to the public. Releasing the souvenir at the function, Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan said that contributions of Warrier and Arya Vaidya Sala in raising the fame of ayurveda and Kerala are incomparable.
Sunday 5 June 2011
MAY 5(World Environment Day)
World Environment Day (WED) is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. It was the day that United Nations Conference On The Human Environment began. The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was from 5–16 June 1972. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. The first World Environment Day was on 1973. World Environment Day is hosted every year by a different city with a different theme and is commemorated with an international exposition in the week of 5 June. World Environment Day is in summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
Theme 2011
Forests-Nature At Your Service-cover one third of the earth’s land mass, performing vital functions and services around the world which make our planet alive with possibilities. In fact, 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods. They play a key role in our battle against climate change, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere while storing carbon dioxide. Thousands of activities were organized worldwide, with beach clean-ups, concerts, exhibits, film festivals, community events and much more
Saturday 4 June 2011
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