The 2017 International Biodiesel Day (IBD) is celebrated on which date?
Answer: B
International Biodiesel Day is observed on 10 August.
It marks the day in 1893 when Rudolf Diesel ran his engine on peanut oil, demonstrating that vegetable oil could fuel an engine - the idea from which modern biodiesel descends.
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The 2017 National Handloom Day (NHD) is celebrated on which date?
Answer: B
National Handloom Day is observed in India on 7 August.
The date marks the launch of the Swadeshi movement at Calcutta on 7 August 1905, in protest against the partition of Bengal. Handloom weaving is India's largest cottage industry, employing about 3.5 million people.
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“International Biodiversity Day” is celebrated on:
Answer: C
The International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated on 22 May.
The date marks the adoption of the text of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992. The day was moved to it in 2000 from 29 December, to avoid the holiday season.
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The 2017 National Broadcasting Day (NBD) is celebrated on which date in India?
Answer: A
National Broadcasting Day is observed in India on 23 July.
The Indian Broadcasting Company began the country's first organised radio service from Bombay on that date in 1927. It became All India Radio in 1936.
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The 2017 Dree festival has recently celebrated in which state of India?
Answer: C
The Dree Festival is celebrated by the Apatani people of Arunachal Pradesh, from 4 to 7 July.
It is an agricultural festival at which the gods Tamu, Metii, Medvr and Danyi are propitiated for a good harvest and for freedom from famine and disease.
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The 2017 Save Public Sector Banks Day (SPSBD) will be celebrated on which date in India?
Answer: A
Save Public Sector Banks Day is observed on 19 July.
Fourteen major private banks were nationalised on that date in 1969, and six more in 1980. Bank employees' unions keep the day in protest against privatisation and consolidation.
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The 2017 National Doctors Day (NDD) is celebrated on which date in India?
Answer: D
National Doctors' Day is observed in India on 1 July.
It is both the birth and the death anniversary of Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy - born 1882, died 1962 - physician, freedom fighter and chief minister of West Bengal, who received the Bharat Ratna in 1961.
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The Civil Services Day (CSD) is celebrated on which day in India?
Answer: D
Civil Services Day is celebrated in India on 21 April.
It marks Sardar Patel's address to the first batch of probationers at Metcalfe House on that date in 1947, in which he called the services the steel frame of India. The Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Public Administration are presented on the day.
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The National Deworming Day (NDD) is celebrated on which date in India?
Answer: B
National Deworming Day is observed in India on 10 February.
Children between 1 and 19 are given a single albendazole tablet at schools and anganwadis. Intestinal worms cause anaemia and malnutrition and affect a very large share of Indian children.
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Sri Rajiv Gandhi first death anniversary day was observed as the?
Answer: D
The first death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, 21 May, is observed as Anti-Terrorism Day.
He was assassinated by a suicide bomber at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu on 21 May 1991. On the day government offices take a pledge against violence and terrorism.
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