Zawnawlna, Hriatzauna
January
Jan. 1: Global Family Day
Jan. 4: World Braille Day
Jan. 9: NRI Day (Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas) --- (Non-Resident Indian Day) is a celebratory day observed (starting in 2015) on 9 January by the Republic of India to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community towards the development of India.
Jan. 12: National Youth Day,
Jan. 13: Lohri Day
Jan. 14-15: Makar Sankranti (Makara Sankranti is set by the solar cycle of the Hindu lunisolar calendar, and is observed on a day which usually falls on 14 Jan. of the Gregorian calendar, but sometimes on 15 January)
Jan. 15: Army day
Jan. 23: Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Jayanti
Jan. 25: National Voters day, National Tourism Day
Jan. 26: India's Republic Day, International Customs Day
Jan. 27: International Day of Commemoration
Jan. 30: Martyrs' Day; Anti Leprosy Day (World Leprosy Eradiction Day)
Jan. (last Sunday): World Leprosy Eradication Day (World Leprosy Day)
February
Feb. 2: World Wetlands Day
Feb. 4: World Cancer Day, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/152776114793402/permalink/1810053959065601/
Feb. 5: Safer Internet Day (second day of the second week of February)
Feb. 6: International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
Feb. 10: National Deworming Day
Feb. 11: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Feb. 12: Sexual and Reproduction Health Awareness Day; National Productivity Day
Feb. 13: World Radio Day, National Women's Sarojini Naidu)
Feb. 14: Valentine Day
Feb. 20: World Day of Social Justice
Feb. 21: International Mother Language Day
Feb. 24: Central Excise Day
Feb. 27: World NGO Day
Feb. 28: National Science Day
Feb. 28/29: Rare Disease Day
March
Mar. 1: Zero Discrimination Day; World Civil Defence Day
Mar. 3: World Wildlife Day, World Hearing Day
Mar. 4: National Security Day
Mar. 6: World Glucoma Day
Mar. 8: International Women's Day
Mar. 8~14: World Glaucoma Week
Mar. 11: No Smoking Day
Mar. 12: World Kidney Day
Mar. (2nd Wednesday): No Smoking Day
Mar. (2nd Thursday): World Kidney Day
Mar. 14: International Day of Action for Rivers; Pi Day
Mar. 15: World Consumer Rights Day
Mar. 16: Measles Immunization Day
Mar. 18: Ordnance Factories Day (India)
Mar. 20: International Day of Happiness; World Sparrow day; World Oral Health Day
Mar. 21: World Forestry Day; World Down Syndrome Day; World Poetry Day
Mar. 22: World Water Day (World Day for Water), Bihar Day
Mar. 23: World Meteorological Day
Mar. 24: World TB Day
Mar. 27: World Theatre Day
April
Apr. 1: Utkal Diwas
Apr. 2: World Autism Awareness Day
Apr. 4: International Day for Mine Awareness
Apr. 5: National Maritime Day
Apr. 7: World Health Day
Apr. 10: World Homeopathy Day
Apr. 11: National Safe Motherhood Day; National Pet Day
Apr. 13: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Apr. 17: World Hameophillia Day [Haemophilia]
Apr. 18: World Heritage Day
Apr. 19: World Liver Day
Apr. 21: Secretaries' Day; Civil Services Day
Apr. 22: World Earth Day (Earth Day)
Apr. 23: World Book and Copyright Day
Apr. 24: National Panchayati Day
Apr. 25: World Malaria Day
Apr. 26: World Intellectual Property Day
Apr. 27: World Veterinary Day
Apr. 28: World Day for Safety and Health at Work;
Apr. 29: International Dance Day
Apr. 30: Ayushman Bharat Diwas
May
May (1st Sun): World Laughter Day
May (1st Tue): World Asthma Day
May 1: Workers' Day (International Labour Day), Maharashtra Day
May 3: Press Freedom Day
May 4: Coal Miners' Day; International Firefighters Day
May 7: World Athletics Day
May (2nd Sun): Mother's Day
May 8: World Red Cross Day; World Thalassaemia Day (World Thalassaemie Day)
May 11: National Technology Day
May 12: World Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day; International Nurses Day
May 15: International Day of the Family
May 16: National Dengue Day
May 17: World Telecommunication Day; World Hypertension Day
May 18: World AIDS Vaccine Day; International Museum Day
May 19: World Family Doctor Day; World Hepatitis Day
May 21: National Anti-Terrorism Day
May 22: International Day for Biological Diversity
May 24: Commonwealth Day
May 28: International Day of Action for Women Health / International Women Health Day
May 30: World Multiple Sclerosis Day
May 31: Anti-tobacco Day / World no-tobacco Day
June
Jun. 1: World Milk Day
Jun. 3: World Bicycle Day
Jun. 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims
Jun. 5: World Environment Day
Jun. (3rd Sunday): Father's Day
Jun. 7: World Food Safety Day
Jun. 8: World Ocean Day; World Brain Tumor Day
Jun. 11: Green Mizoram Day [Mizoram]
Jun. 12: Anti-Child Labor Day
Jun. 13: International Albinism Awareness Day
Jun. 14: International Blood Donor Day (World Blood Donation Day)(World Blood Donor Day)
Jun. 15: World Wind Day
Jun. 20: World Refugee Day
Jun. 21: World Music Day; World Hydrography Day; International day of yoga
Jun. 23: United Nations Public Service Day; International Olympic Day
Jun. 25: World Vitiligo Day
Jun. 26: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
July
Jul. 01: National Doctor's Day (Doctor's Day)
Jul. 06: World Zoonoses Day
Jul. 11: World Population Day
Jul. 17: World Day for International Justice
Jul. 18: International Nelson Mandela Day
Jul. 22: Pi Day (Alternative)
Jul. 28: World Hepatitis Day
Jul. 29: ORS Day
August
Aug. (1st Sunday): International Friendship Day
Aug. 1-7: Breastfeeding Week
Aug. 6: Hiroshima Day
Aug. 9: Quit India Day; Nagasaki Day; International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Aug. 12: International Youth Day
Aug. 15: Indian Independence Day; Sanskrit Day (celebrated on the Shrawan Poornima on Full Moon day according to the Hindu Calendar)
Aug. 19: Photography Day; World Humanitarian Day
Aug. 20: World Mosquito Day
Aug. 25~Sep. 8: (National) Eye Donation Forthnight
Aug. 29: National Sports Day
September
Sep. 1~7: National Nutrition Week (India)
Sep. 2: Coconut Day
Sep. 5: Spinal Cord Injury Day; Teachers' Day
Sep. 8: International Literacy Day
Sep. 10: World Suicide Prevention Day
Sep. 14: Hindi Diwas
Sep. 15: Engineers' Day; International Day of Democracy
Sep. 16: World Ozone Day; International Day for Preservation
Sep. 19: World Marrow Donor Day
Sep. 21: (World) Alzheimer's Day; Day for Peace & Non-violence (UN)
Sep. (4th Sunday): world rivers day
Sep. 22: Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients)
Sep. 23: International Day of Sign Languages
Sep. 25: World Pharmacist Day
Sep. 26: (World) Day of the Deaf; World Contraception Day
Sep. 27: World Tourism Day; World Maritime Day
Sep. 28: World Rabies Day
Sep. 29: World Heart Day
Sep. 21~27: World Day of Deaf (Starts last week of September and ends on last Sunday of September)
Sep. 30: International Translation Day
October
Oct. Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Oct. (1st Monday): World Habitat Day
Oct. 1: International Day for the Elderly (International Day of Older Persons); World Vegetarian Day
Oct. 2: National Anti Drug Addiction Day (India); Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday (Gandhi Jayanthi); International Day of Non-Violence
Oct. 4: World Animal Welfare Day
Oct. 6: World cerebral Palsy Day
Oct. (2nd Thursday): World Sight Day
Oct. 8: Indian Air Force Day
Oct. 9: World Post Office Day
Oct. 10: National Post Day; World Mental Health Day (focus on suicide prevention, start on 1992)
Oct. 11: International Day of the Girl Child (National Girl Child Day); World Obesity Day
Oct. 12: World Arthritis Day
Oct. 13: World Thrombosis Day; UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
Oct. 14: World Standards Day
Oct. 15: World Students Day; International White Cane Day (or White Cane Safety Day or World White Cane Day (guiding the blind)); Global Hand washing Day
Oct. 16: World Food Day
Oct. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Oct. 20: World Osteoporosis Day
Oct. 21: Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Day; World Iodine Deficiency Day
Oct. 24: World Polio Day; UN Day; World Development Information Day
Oct. 26: World Obesity Day
Oct. 29: World Stroke Day
Oct. 29~Nov. 3: Vigilance Week
Oct. 30: World Thrift Day (India)
Oct. 31: National Unity Day; World Thrift Day (or World Savings Day)
November
Nov. 2: World Pneumonia Day
Nov. 5: World tsunami day
Nov. 7: World Vasectomy Day; National Cancer Awareness Day (India)
Nov. 9: Legal Services Day
Nov. 10: World Immunisation Day
Nov. 11~17 World Antibiotic Awareness Week (2019)
Nov. 12: World Pneumonia Day
Nov. 14: World Diabetes Day; Children's Day (India)
Nov. 15~21 New Born Care Week
Nov. 17: National Epilepsy Day
Nov. 18: World Epilepsy Day; World COPD Day
Nov. 19: World Toilet Day 2015
Nov. 20: Africa Industrialization Day
Nov. 21: World Television Day
Nov. 26: Constitution Day
Nov. 27: Organ Donation Day
Nov. 29: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian (People)
December
Dec. 1: World AIDS Day
Dec. 2: National Pollution Prevention Day (National Pollution Control)
Dec. 3: International Day of Disabled Persons (International Day of Persons with disabilities)
Dec. 4: Indian Navy Day
Dec. 7: Indian Armed Forces Flag Day
Dec. 9: World Patient Safety Day
Dec. 10: Human Rights Day;
Dec. 11: International Mountain Day
Dec. 12: Universal Health Coverage Day
Dec. 14: World Energy Conservation Day
Dec. 16: Vijay Diwas
Dec. 18: Minorities Rights Day (India)
Dec. 22: National Mathematics Day (India) [The declaration to observe 22 December as National Mathematics Day was made by former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on 26 Feb. 2012 at Madras University on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of Ramanujan.]
Dec. 23: Kisan Divas (Farmer's Day) (India)
Dec. 24: National Consumers Day
Dec. 25: Christmas Day
Source:
Govt. of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Institute of Public Health Training & Research
NDTV, India News
United Nations Organization
