‘World Consumer Rights Day’ is celebrated every year on:
Answer: A
15 March is World Consumer Rights Day.
It marks President Kennedy's address to the US Congress on 15 March 1962, the first time a head of state set out the basic rights of consumers - to safety, to be informed, to choose and to be heard.
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On which date, World Forestry Day is observed?
Answer: B
World Forestry Day is celebrated on 21 March.
It has been kept since 1971, and the UN made it the International Day of Forests in 2012. The date is the equinox, when day and night are equal in both hemispheres.
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Who among the following won the 2003 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integrations?
Answer: B
Baba Amte received the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration in 2003.
He founded Anandwan in Maharashtra for the rehabilitation of leprosy patients, and led the Bharat Jodo march across the country in the 1980s.
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When is International Youth Day, recognized by the UN observed?
Answer: B
International Youth Day is observed on 12 August.
The UN designated it in 1999 and it has been kept since 2000. There are about 1.2 billion people between 15 and 24, roughly 16 per cent of the world's population.
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On what date World-No Tobacco Day is observed?
Answer: C
World No Tobacco Day falls on 31 May.
The World Health Organization has kept it on that date since 1988. Tobacco kills more than eight million people a year, over a million of them non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.
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When is the Central Excise Day observed?
Answer: D
Central Excise Day is observed on 24 February.
The Central Excise and Salt Act received assent on that date in 1944. The day honours the service that collected excise duty, now merged into the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs under GST.
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The United Nations declared 2005-2014 as the International Decade for-
Answer: A
2005–2014 was the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
Led by UNESCO, it sought to build the principles of sustainable development into teaching at every level, so that education would help form the values the transition requires.
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January 1 is observed as-
Answer: A
1 January is observed as Global Family Day, a day of peace and sharing.
It grew out of the UN's International Year for the Culture of Peace in 2000, and asks people to begin the year by extending the idea of family beyond their own household.
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On which date of December we observe Minorities Rights Day ?
Answer: C
Minorities Rights Day is observed in India on 18 December.
The date marks the UN's adoption in 1992 of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. India's National Commission for Minorities observes it.
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Which day has been declared by the Californian Governor as ‘Steve Jobs Day’?
Answer: C
The Governor of California declared 16 October as Steve Jobs Day.
Jobs, who co-founded Apple and led it through the iPod, iPhone and iPad, died on 5 October 2011; the day was proclaimed for the memorial held that month.
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