World No Tobacco Day | Anti Tobacco Day 2020

World No Tobacco Day: Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use.

What is Anti Tobacco Day?

World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on 31 May.The main focus of the "World No Tobacco Day" is protecting young people from the marketing of big tobacco companies and helping them avoid using tobacco and nicotine.

World Health Organization (WHO) Awareness:

According to WHO, tobacco use kills more than 8 million people around the globe every year. Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and disease in United States. It causes many types of cancer, as well as heart disease, stroke, lung disease, and other health problems.

Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) sponsors this awareness day to highlight the health risks of using tobacco and to encourage governments to put policies into action that help to reduce smoking and the use of other tobacco products.

 

World No Tobacco Day or Anti Tobacco Day 2020 : Theme

The theme of World No Tobacco Day 2020 is “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use”.

The theme of World No Tobacco Day or Anti Tobacco Day 2019 is "Tobacco and Lung Health".

The theme of World No Tobacco Day or Anti Tobacco Day 2018 is “Tobacco and heart disease”. It will focus on the cardiovascular health.

Eid 2020: When is Eid al-Fitr? How do you wish someone?

Eid is also called the "Festival of Breaking the Fast". It is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. This religious Eid is the first and only day in the month of Shawwal during which Muslims are not permitted to fast.

What and when is Ramadan?

This year Ramadan began on Thursday, April 23 and ends on Saturday, May 23.

Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar.During this time, Muslims do not let any food or drink pass their lips during daylight hours.

Is Ramzan Id/Eid-ul-Fitar a Public Holiday?

Ramzan Id/Eid-ul-Fitar is a public holiday. It is a day off for the general population, and schools and most businesses are closed.

Eid Quotes and messages

Eid Mubarak! May the blessings of Allah keep your heart and home happy and joyous!

May you shine in Allah's divine blessings. Eid Mubarak!

May this Eid bring joy and love to your heart and create all the opportunities of success for you! Eid Mubarak.

Eid Mubarak to you and your family. May the Almighty accept your prayers and bless you with the rewards of Ramadan. Have a safe Eid!

Every eid is more enjoyable with friends like you. I love you all and wish the most special Eid Mubarak to all of you!

Happy Mother's Day 2020: Wishes, SMS and Quotes

Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. The modern Mother's Day has been assimilated into Indian culture and is celebrated every year on the second Sunday of May.

Is Mother's Day a Public Holiday?

Mother's Day is not a public holiday. It falls on Sunday, 10 May 2020. Indians do not celebrate the occasion as a religious event.

Mother's Day Quotes:

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb

“If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot

“The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." -Cardinal Mermillod

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan

Rabindranath Jayanti 2020: Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore Birth Anniversary

Rabindranath Jayanti 2020: Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore Birth Anniversary.

 

Rabindra Jayanti is an annually celebrated cultural festival, prevalent among Bengalis around the world, in the remembrance of Rabindranath Tagore's birthday anniversary.It is celebrated in early May, on the 25th day of the Bengali month of Boishakh, since Tagore was born on this day of the year 1268 of the Bengali calendar. Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel laureate, great poet, and the man behind composing India’s national anthem. He is widely known for authoring Gitanjali which made way for him to become the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

He was even awarded a knighthood in 1915 by King George but renounced the title in 1919 after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The day is elaborately celebrated in Santiniketan in West Bengal, in the Visva Bharati University which was established by him.

The inspirational quotes by Tagore:

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

 

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

 

The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

 

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

World Athletics Day 2020

World Athletics Day 2020

The World Athletics Day is observed on 7th of May every year and the main objective of the World Athletics Day to observe is to popularise sports among the youth and to promote athletics as the primary sport in schools and colleges,institutions and to encourage and introduce new talent and youngsters in the field of athletics.

The first World Athletics Day was celebrated in 1996. The event was organised by International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF). It is a international governing body for the sport of athletics and founded on 17 July 1912.

The most common types of athletics competitions covered on this day are; track and field, road running, race walking and cross country running.

The purposes of the Word Athletics Day

1. Promote athletics
2. Popularise sports
3. Increase public awareness
4. Health & Physical fitness
5. Motivate the youth & youngsters