1. Disarmament Week celebrated every year from ___________, since United Nations founded it in 1978. Aim is to control usage of weapons of mass destruction ?
2. ______________, 2017 - 85th Indian Air Force Day.
- IAF on this occasion launched mobile health App named MedWatch. It has features that will provide authentic health information to all IAF personnel.
3. _________ - UN International Day of Older Persons. 2017 Theme is Stepping into the Future: Tapping the Talents, Contributions and Participation of Older Persons in Society ?
4. ___________ - World Vegetarian Day. It initiates month of October as Vegetarian Awareness Month that ends on November 1 as World Vegan Day.
5. _________ - World Mental Health Day. 2017 theme is Mental health in the workplace. It is also observed as World Day against the Death Penalty ?
6. _________ - International Day of Girl Child. 2017 theme is The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030 ?
7. ________ - International Day for Disaster Reduction. 2017 theme is Home Safe Home: Reducing Exposure, Reducing Displacement. ?
8. __________ - World Standards day. 2017 theme is Standards make cities smarter ?
9. _______________ - UN International Day of Rural Women ?
10. ____________ - UN World Students Day. It Commemorates Birth Anniversary of Noted Indian Scientist and Former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. He was known as Missile Man of India and honored with hightest Indian Honor Bharat Ratna in 1997. UN declared this day in 2010 ?
11. ___________ - World Food Day. 2017 Theme is Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development ?
12. ___________ - International Day for Eradication of Poverty (IDEP). 2017 theme is Answering the Call of October 17 to end poverty: A path toward peaceful and inclusive societies ?
13. _______ - World Sawfish Day. Scientists announced that sawfish, sighted off Indian coast less than 10 times in over a decade appears to be more threatened than tigers and elephants ?
14. _________ - Birth Anniversary of Noted Leader Lal Bahadur Shastri (2nd Prime Minister of India). He gave famous slogan Jai Jawaan Jai Kisaan ?
15. _________ - International Day of Non-Violence, on occasion of Birth Anniversary of M K Gandhi (also referred as Gandhi Jayanti). UN approved this day in 2007.
- Andhra Pradesh Government launched Swachh Andhra Mission on this occasion, with Badminton Player PV Sindhu as brand ambassador.
- On this occasion, Nepali version of MK Gandhi’s autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth released in Kathmandu, translated by Shekhar Giri.
- On This occasion, Bihar government launched drive against child marriage and dowry.
- On This occasion, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG) was conferred with Swachh Bharat Inter-Ministerial Award.
16. ______________ , 2017 - UN World Habitat day (First Monday of October every year). 2017 theme was Housing Policies: Affordable Homes.?
17._____________ - UN World Statistics Day. Theme for 2017 is Better Data, Better Lives ?
18. __________ - National Police Commemoration Day.
- On This Occasion, Uttar Pradesh Government announced to double ex-gratia amount for police officials martyred on duty. Now this amount becomes INR 40 lakh, compared to INR 20 lakh earlier.
19. ___________ - International Stuttering Awareness Day. 2017 Theme is A World That Understands Stuttering. ?
20. ____________ - First International Day of Diplomats celebrated in Brasilia (Brazil). Diplomats of Bangladesh, Brazil, France, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey participated in Event, to recognise hard work and sacrifices of diplomats and their families ?
21.
- ___________ is observed as -
- United Nations Day, started in 1948.
- Raising Day of Indian Paramilitary Force ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police).
- World Development Information Day (WDID).
- World Polio day.
22. _________ - Infantry Day. It commemorate sacrifices made by infantry who fought against Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. This was first infantry action by Indian Army after independence ?
23. ___________ - World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. 2017 Theme is Discover, remember and share ?
24.__________ - International Animation Day ?
25. _________ - World Cities Day. 2017 theme is Innovative Governance, Open Cities. General theme of World Cities Day is Better City, Better Life ?
26. ___________ - Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day). Observed to commemorate birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhai Patel who played important role in unifying India pre-independence. ?
27. ________ - World Animal Day. ?
28. ________ - World Teachers’ Day. It commemorates signing of 1966 UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. 2017 theme is Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers ?
29. __________ - World Post Day. ?
30. World Space Week 2017 observed from ____________ with theme Exploring New Worlds In Space ?