Theme 2013: Water Cooperation

Water cooperation is a foundation for peace and sustainable development. Water cooperation contributes to poverty reduction and equity, creates economic benefits, helps preserve water resources and protect the environment, and builds peace. 

To focus attention on this important subject the celebrations for World Water Day on 22 March 2013 will take place around the world with the theme of water cooperation.

“International Year of Water Cooperation”

In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation.

The Year is lead by UNESCO because of the Organization’s unique multidisciplinary approach, which blends the natural and social sciences, education, culture and communication.

Given the intrinsic nature of water as a transversal and universal element, the United Nations International Year on Water Cooperation naturally would embrace and touch upon all these aspects. To find out more visit Water Cooperation 2013 website.

Source & Thanks: http://www.un.org/en/events/waterday/

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World Forestry Day is celebrated around the world to ring a bell among the society about the importance of forests and the scores of benefits which are gained from them. The concept of celebrating a day every year as World Forestry Day originated at the 23rd General Assembly of the European Confederation of Agriculture in 1971. 

The event also venerates the contribution of the forests. Every year, 21 March is distinguished as World Forestry Day.

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• Laureus World Sportsman of the Year- Usain Bolt 
• Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year- Jessica Ennis 
• Laureus World Team of the Year- European Ryder Cup Team 
• Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year- Andy Murray 
• Laureus World Comeback of the Year- Feliz Sanchez 
• Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year- Felix Baumgartner 
• Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability- Daniel Dias

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International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is marked on March 8 every year.

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National Science Day Rashtriya Vigyan Diwas is celebrated in India on February 28 each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on 28 February 1928. 

For his discovery, Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.


Raman Effect 

Raman effect or Raman scattering is popularly known as an inelastic scattering of a photon. When light is scattered from an atom or molecule, most photons are elastically scattered with almost the same energy (frequency) and wavelength as the incident photons. But a small fraction of the photons is scattered by excitation. The frequency of scattered photons is lower than the frequency of the incident photons.

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Six foreign micro and mini spacecrafts as well as the Indo-French oceanographic study satellite, SARAL (Satellite for Argos-3 and Altika) were launched successfully by ISRO's PSLV-C20 rocket on 25 February 2013 from the spaceport at Sriharikota.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) of Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) flew from first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre and was successfully put into the orbit. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee witnessed this launch from mission control centre at Sriharikota.

Satellites launched by PSLV-C20 rocket

• 410-kg SARAL with payloads - Argos and Altika
• Two micro-satellites UniBRITE and BRITE from Austria
• AAUSAT3 from Denmark
• STRaND from United Kingdom
• Micro-satellite (NEOSSat)
• Mini-satellite (SAPPHIRE) from Canada

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ബെന്‍ അഫ് ലെക്ക് സംവിധാനം ചെയ്ത ' ആര്‍ഗോ' എന്ന ചിത്രം മികച്ച ചിത്രമായി തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. 
മികച്ച സംവിധായകനുള്ള പുരസ്‌കാരം 'ലൈഫ് ഓഫ് പൈ' എന്ന ചിത്രം സംവിധാനം ചെയ്ത ആങ് ലീ നേടി. 
'ലിങ്കണ്‍' എന്നി ചിത്രത്തിലെ തകര്‍പ്പന്‍ പ്രകടനത്തിന് ഡാനിയേല്‍ ഡേ ലൂയിസ് മികച്ച നടനായി.
'സില്‍വര്‍ ലൈനിങ്‌സ് പ്ലേബുക്ക്' എന്ന ചിത്രത്തിലെ പ്രകടനത്തിന് ജെന്നിഫര്‍ ലോറന്‍സ് മികച്ച നടിയായി തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. 

മറ്റ് പുരസ്‌കാരങ്ങള്‍

ക്ലോഡിയോ മിറാന്‍ഡ മികച്ച ഛായാഗ്രാഹകന്‍(ലൈഫ് ഓഫ് പൈ)

ക്രിസ്റ്റഫ് വാള്‍സ് മികച്ച സഹനടന്‍ (ജാംഗോ അണ്‍ചെയിന്‍ഡ്)

പേപ്പര്‍മാന്‍ മികച്ച അനിമേറ്റഡ് ഷോര്‍ട്ട് ഫിലിം

ബ്രേവ് മികച്ച അനിമേറ്റഡ് ഫീച്ചര്‍ ഫിലിം

വസ്ത്രാലങ്കാരത്തിന് ജാക്വിലിന്‍ ഡുറാന് പുരസ്‌കാരം

കര്‍ഫ്യൂ മികച്ച ലൈവ് ആക്ഷന്‍ ഷോര്‍ട്ട് ഫിലിം

ഇന്നസെന്റേ മികച്ച ഷോര്‍ട്ട് ഡോക്യുമെന്ററി

അമോര്‍ മികച്ച വിദേശഭാഷാചിത്രം

ലെ മിസറബിളിന് മികച്ച ചമയത്തിനും ശബ്ദമിശ്രണത്തിനുമുള്ള പുരസ്‌കാരം

അന്ന ഹാത്തവെ മികച്ച സഹനടി (ലെ മിസറബിള്‍)

വില്യം ഗോള്‍ഡന്‍ബര്‍ഗ് മികച്ച എഡിറ്റര്‍(ആര്‍ഗോ)

മൈക്കല്‍ ഡാന്ന മികച്ച സംഗീത സംവിധായകന്‍ (ലൈഫ് ഓഫ് പൈ)

അദെലെ അഡ്കിന്‍സും പോള്‍ എപ്‌വര്‍ത്തും മികച്ച ഗാനരചയിതാക്കള്‍ (സ്‌കൈഫോള്‍)

ക്വിന്റീന്‍ ടാറന്റീനോ മികച്ച തിരക്കഥാകൃത്ത് (ജാംഗോ അണ്‍ചെയിന്‍ഡ്)

Source: http://www.mathrubhumi.com/story.php?id=342419

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World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008. 
The primary goal of the World Cancer Day is to significantly reduce death and illness caused by cancer by 2020

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World Wetlands Day 

World Wetlands Day is celebrated internationally each year on 2 February. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971. 

The international theme for World Wetlands Day 2013 is Wetlands take care of water. Wetlands provide important hydrological functions such as groundwater recharge, water quality improvement and flood alleviation. The health of wetlands depends on the quality and quantity of water that reaches them. To secure their conservation and wise use it is essential that they are managed in the wider context of catchment-scale water resource management. 

2013 is the UN International Year for Water Cooperation and an ideal opportunity for Ramsar to look at the connection between water and wetlands.

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Martyrs’ Day marks the death anniversary of the father of nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was assassinated on Jan 30, 1948

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