Mother’s Day Date
Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day on different dates. Check out the exact date for Mother’s Day in your country from the list of Mothers Day dates 2010 given below and start preparing for a big surprise of love for her.
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Holidays 2009
| Holidays 2009 India | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jan 5 | Monday | Guru Govind Singh Jayanti |
| Jan 7 | Wednesday | Muharram |
| Jan 15 | Wednesday | Pongal |
| Jan 26 | Monday | Republic Day |
| Jan 31 | Saturday | Vasant Panchami |
| Feb 19 | Thursday | Shivaji Jayanti |
| Feb 22 | Sunday | Maharishi Dayanand Sarawati Jayanti |
| Feb 23 | Monday | Maha Shivaratri/Shivaratri |
| Mar 9 | Monday | Prophet’s Birthday |
| Mar 9 | Monday | Milad un-Nabi |
| Mar 11 | Wednesday | Holi |
| Apr 3 | Friday | Rama Navami |
| Apr 10 | Friday | Good Friday |
World Sight Day 9 October 2008
World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. It is a worldwide initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. This year’s theme is Eyes on the Future – vision and ageing, which recognises that in a world where populations are ageing, and individuals are living longer, blindness from chronic conditions is also rising. It focuses on the ageing eye, and vision impairment in older people.
Rehearsals for Air Force Day – 8 October Photo Gallery
Suryakiran Aerobatics team of the Indian Air Force
displaying skills in the sky over Hindon. Photo: PTI
Air Force personnel show their skills during a rehearsal
for the Air Force Day, in Hindon on Monday. Photo: PTI
Advance Light Helicopter Aerobatics team of the Indian Air
Force displaying breath-taking skills in the sky. Photo: PTI
Suryakiran Aerobatics team of the Indian Air Force
during a rehearsal for the Air Force Day. Photo: PTI
Air Force Day – 8 October
The Indian Air Force celebrated its 76th Anniversary on 08 Oct 2008. An air display by 52 aircraft will form part of the Air Force Day Parade cum investiture ceremony at Air Force Station Hindon. Rehearsal of the air display will commence from 03 Oct 08. Aircraft will fly at heights from 60 mtrs to 300 metres above ground level between 0830 and 1030 am from 03 Oct 08 to 08 Oct 08. The areas over which aircraft will be flying at low levels are Wazirpur bridge- Karwalnagar – Afjalpur – hindon, Shamli- Jiwana- Chandinagar – Hindon, Hapur – Philkua – Ghaziabad – Hindon.
Gandhi Jayanti
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on 2nd Octobner every year as the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of India. In his autobiography My experiments with Truth Gandhi recalls that his childhood and teen age years were characterised by education in a local school, marriage to Kasturba at the age of 13 and an intrinsic love for ‘truth’ and ‘duty’.
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