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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]
Celebrates the beginning of the Malayali New Year [21] April: Vaisakhi: Floating Sikh festival celebrates the beginning of the Solar new year in North India and spring harvest on the first day of the month of Vaisakh in the Punjabi calendar April: Bohag Bihu: Floating Celebrates the beginning of the Assamese New Year April: Ugadi: Floating
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]
The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilization of 200,000 Indian troops. The war came to an official end on July 26, 1999, with the eviction of Pakistan Army troops from their occupied positions, thus marking it as Kargil Vijay Diwas. 527 soldiers from the Indian Armed Forces lost their lives during the war.
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of wearing a remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. [1] The day is also marked by war remembrances in several other non-Commonwealth countries.
Memorial Day began a few years after the Civil War, in 1868. An organization of Union veterans established the holiday, then known as Decoration Day, as a time to decorate the graves of fallen ...
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.
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]