Dear Aspirant,
We collected the important days in January 2016 and provided in a table Format. We hope, it will help you in Competitive exams!!!
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Jan 4 2016 |
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| Remember Day | World Braille Day(207th birth anniversary of Louis Braille) | |
| Purpose | To recognize the efforts of Louis Braille. Louis Braille is credited with inventing the Braille language which helps blind people to read as well as write. | |
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Jan 10 2016 |
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| Remember Day | World Hindi Day | |
| Purpose | To mark the day, 14 September 1949, on which the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the Official Language of the Union. | |
| Organization | India | |
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Jan 12 2016 |
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| Remember Day | National Youth Day | |
| Purpose | To commemorate the birthday of Swami Vivekananda, maker of the modern India. | |
| Organization | India | |
| Theme | “Indian youth for development skill and harmony” | |
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Jan 15 2016 |
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| Remember Day | Indian Army Day | |
| Purpose | Recognition of Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa’s taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India, o n 15 January 1949. | |
| Organization | India | |
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Jan 24 2016 |
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| Remember Day | National girl child day | |
| Purpose | To increase the awareness among people about all the inequalities faced by the girl child in the society | |
| Organization | India | |
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Jan 25 2016 |
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| Remember Day | National Voters Day | |
| Purpose | To encourage more young voters to take part in the political process | |
| Organization | India | |
| Theme | Democracy and electroral participation | |
| Remember Day | National Tourism Day | |
| Purpose | To raise awareness of the importance of tourism for the country’s economy. | |
| Organization | India | |
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Jan 26 2016 |
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| Remember Day | International Customs Day | |
| Purpose | To recognizes the role of custom officials and agencies in maintaining border security. | |
| Organization | World Customs Organization | |
| Theme | “Digital Customs: Progressive Engagement” | |
| Remember Day | 67th Republic Day | |
| Purpose | To honour the Constitution of India as it came into force on the same day in the year 1950 | |
| Organization | Government of India | |
| Theme of Parade | ‘Swachh Bharat’ and ‘Digital India’ | |
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Jan 27 2016 |
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| Remember Day | International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust | |
| Purpose | To commemorates when the Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on January 27, 1945. | |
| Organization | UN | |
| Theme | “From Words to Genocide: Antisemitic Propaganda and the Holocaust”. | |
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Jan 30 2016 |
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| Remember Day | Martyrs’ Day | |
| Purpose | To honor of those who lost their lives defending the sovereignty of the nation and death anniversary of Mahathma Gandhi | |
| Organization | India | |
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Jan 31 2016 |
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| Remember Day | World Leprosy Day | |
| Purpose | To increase the public awareness of the Leprosy or Hansen’s Disease | |
| Organization | NGOs | |
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