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Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (Hindi: Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas) is an annual national memorial day observed on 14 August in India, commemorating the victims and sufferings of people during the 1947 partition of India. [2] It was first observed in 2021, after announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [3]
Since 1972, every-year on Republic Day, before the Republic Day parade, it had been customary for the Prime Minister and three service chiefs and dignitaries to place a wreath at Amar Jawan Jyoti. [7] On Independence Day, the President laid a wreath. [27] On 16 December, Vijay Diwas, the Defence Minister laid a wreath. [28]
Telangana Martyrs Memorial day is observed on 2 June every year in all the districts of Telangana State. [3] It is situated on the banks of Hussain Sagar, opposite to the Public Gardens, Hyderabad. [4] [5] It is the largest seamless stainless-steel memorial built in the world and is five times bigger than Cloud Gate (located in Chicago). [6]
16 December 2020 - The Prime Minister paid tributes and started the celebration of Golden Jubilee Year of Indian victory over Pakistan by lighting a Swarnim Vijay Mashaal (Golden Victory Torch) with the fire from Amar Jawan Jyoti at NWM. [37] 21 January 2022 - Amar Jawan Jyoti of India Gate merged with National War Memorial. [11]
Jallianwala Bagh is a historic garden and memorial of national importance close to the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, India, preserved in the memory of those wounded and killed in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that took place on the site on the festival of Baisakhi Day, 13 April 1919.
This year, Memorial Day is on Monday, May 27. Federal and government agencies, schools and most banks will be closed in observance of the holiday, reopening on Tuesday, May 28 for business as usual.
The memorial was built in 1968 [3] and is located 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the border of India and Pakistan border, on the Indian side. After the Partition of India, the cremation spot became a part of Pakistan but on 17 January 1961, it was returned to India in exchange for 12 villages near the Sulemanki Headworks (Fazilka). This action of ...
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