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Dear readers, This is docket of Important days, Nobel Prize Winners 2017, Science & Defense, Important News (India), Important News (World), which can be asked in upcoming AIIMS Exam 2018. Important Days January April 5: International Day for Mine Awareness; National Maritime Day January 4: World Braille Day April 7: World Health Day January 9: NRI Day April 10: World Homeopathy Day January 10: World Hindi Day April 11: National Safe Motherhood Day January 12: National Youth Day April 17: World Haemophilia Day January 15: Army day April 18: World Heritage Day January 24: National Girl Child Day April 21: Secretaries’ Day January 25: National Voters day April 22: Earth Day January 26: India’s Republic Day, International Customs April 23: World Book and Copyright Day Day April 24: National Panchayati Day January 30: Martyrs’ Day; April 29: International Dance Day January (last Sunday): World Leprosy Eradication Day May February May 1: Workers’ Day (International Labour Day), Maharashtra Day February 4: World Cancer Day May 3: Press Freedom Day February 6: International Day of Zero Tolerance to May (1st Sunday): World Laughter Day Female Genital Mutilation May (1st Tuesday): World Asthma Day February 7: Safer Internet Day (second day of the second May (2nd Sunday): Mother’s Day week of February) May 4: Coal Miners’ Day; International Firefighters Day February 10: National De-worming Day May 7: World Athletics Day February 12: National Productivity Day May 8: World Red Cross Day February 13: World Radio Day May 9: World Thalassaemia Day February 14: Valentine Day May 11: National Technology Day February 20: World Day of Social Justice May 12: International Nurses Day February 21: International Mother Language Day May 15: International Day of the Family February 24: Central Excise Day May 17: World Telecommunication Day; World February 28: National Science Day Hypertension Day May 18: World AIDS Vaccine Day March May 22: International Day for Biological Diversity May 24: Commonwealth Day March 1: Zero Discrimination Day May 31: Anti-tobacco Day March 3: World Wildlife Day, National Defence Day March 4: National Security Day March 8: International Women’s Day June March 13: No Smoking Day (second Wednesday in March) March 15: World Disabled Day; World Consumer Rights June 1: World Milk Day Day June 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of March 18: Ordnance Factories Day (India) Aggression March 21: World Forestry Day; World Down Syndrome June 5: World Environment Day Day June (3rd Sunday): Father’s Day March 22: World Day for Water June 8: World Ocean Day March 23: World Meteorological Day June 12: Anti-Child Labor Day March 24: World TB Day June 14: World Blood Donor Day March 27: World Theatre Day June 20: World Refugee Day June 21: International day of yoga April June 26: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking April 2: World Autism Awareness Day July October 10: National Post Day; World Mental Health Day July 1: Doctor’s Day October 2nd Thursday: World Sight Day July 6: World Zoonoses Day October 13: UN International Day for Natural Disaster July 11: World Population Day Reduction July 18: International Nelson Mandela Day October 14: World Standards Day October 15: World Students Day; World White Cane Day August (guiding the blind) October 16: World Food Day August (1st Sunday): International Friendship Day October 24: UN Day; World Development Information August 6: Hiroshima Day Day August 8: World Senior Citizen’s Day October 30: World Thrift Day August 9: Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day August 15: Indian Independence Day August 18: IntI. Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples November August 19: Photography Day August 29: National Sports Day November 5: World tsunami day November 7: National Cancer Awareness Day September November 9: Legal Services Day November 14: Children’s Day; Diabetes Day September 2: Coconut Day November 17: National Epilepsy Day September 5: Teachers’ Day; Sanskrit Day November 20: Africa Industrialization Day September 8: International Literacy Day November 21: World Television Day September 15: Engineers’ Day November 29: International Day of Solidarity with September 16: World Ozone Day Palestinian People September 21: Alzheimer’s Day; Day for Peace & Non- violence (UN) December September 22: Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients) September 26: Day of the Deaf; World Contraception Day December 1: World AIDS Day September 27: World Tourism Day December 2: National Pollution Control September 29: World Heart Day December 3: World Day of the Handicapped September: world rivers day (last Saturday of September) December 4: Indian Navy Day December 7: Indian Armed Forces Flag Day December 10: Human Rights Day; IntI. Children’s Day of October Broadcasting December 11: International Mountain Day October 1: International Day for the Elderly December 14: World Energy Conservation Day October 2: Gandhi Jayanthi; International Day of Non- December 16: Vijay Diwas Violence December 18: Minorities Rights Day (India) October(first Monday): World Habitat Day December 22: National Mathematics Day October 4: World Animal Welfare Day December 23: Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day) (India) October 8: Indian Air Force Day December 24: National Consumers Day October 9: World Post Office Day December 25: Christmas Day List of 2017 Nobel Prize winners • Frist established in 1895 at the will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. • All the Prize except Peace Prize awarded at Stockholm, Sweden. • Peace Prize awarded in Oslo, Norway. • The Prize is not awarded posthumously. • The Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, and Economic Science presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is presented by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute. • The Nobel Prize for Literature presented by the Swedish Academy. • The Nobel Prize in Peace presented by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. • Youngest Nobel Laureate- Malala Yousafzai for Peace in 2014 • Oldest Nobel Laureate- Leonid Hurwicz for Economics in 2007 • Indian Nobel laureates • Till now 12 Indians (5 Indian citizens and 7 of Indian origin or residency) have been awarded Nobel Prize. • The first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore for his works "Gitanjali" in 1913. • First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics was C. V. Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" in 1930. • First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize for Peace was Mother Teresa in 1979. • First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics was Amartya Sen in 1998. • First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was Har Gobind Khorana for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis in 1968. • First Indian recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome in 2009. • The only woman from India in the list of Nobel Prize recipient is Mother Teresa. Nobel Prize Winners 2017 1 .The Nobel Prize in Physics 2107 • Rainer Weiss 4. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 • Barry C. Barish • Kips S. Thorne • Kazuo Ishiguro For- decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the For- Who, in novels of great emotional force, has observation of gravitational waves. uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world. 2. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 5. The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 • Jacques Dubochet • Joachim Frank • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons • Richard Henderson (ICAN) For- developing cryo-electron microscopy for the For- its work to draw attention to the catastrophic high-resolution structure determination of humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear biomolecules in solution. weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons. 3. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 6. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in • Jeffrey C. Hall Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 • Michael Rosbash • Michael W. Young • Richard H. Thaler For- their discoveries of molecular mechanisms For- his contributions to behavioral economics. controlling the circadian rhythm. Honor & Awards 1. India’s Premier Container Port Jawaharlal Nehru Port ‘Cape Horn’, situated in Southern Chile’s Tierra del Fuego Trust (JNPT) has won the “Samudra Manthan - Caring archipelago in their journey--Tarini. Organization of the Year” award. Note: The crew of six women naval officers under 2. Actor Sudhir Dalvi has been awarded the ‘Janakavi P Lieutenant Commander ‘Vartika Joshi’ is sailing ‘Tarini’ Sawlaram Award 2018’ at Thane, Maharashtra. on their eight-month circumnavigation the globe. Note: The Janakavi P Sawlaram Award is instituted by 5. First Indian to receive WHO’s IhsanDogramaci Family Thnae Municipal Corporation in association with the Health Foundation Prize -- Dr Vinod Paul (NITI Aayog Janakavi P Sawlaram Kala Samiti. member) 3. The Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Fellowships (Akademi Note: He was selected for his contributions towards Ratna) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2016 improving the health and well-being of families, given by President of India in New Delhi. especially in developing countries. The ward will be 4. The Indian Navy’s first all-women crew of Indian Naval formally presented at World Health Assembly to be held Sailing Vessel has crossed the most challenging point in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2018. 6. The fifth edition of Yash Chopra Memorial Award 2018-- 17. The prestigious Aravindan Puraskaram for the best Asha Bhosle. debutant director of 2017 -- Sagar Chaya Vanchar. Note: The award will be presented to Asha Bhosle on Note: The award, comprising a cash prize of Rs 25,000, a 16th February. Yash Chopra memorial award has been memento and a citation, is instituted by the Chalachitra instituted by the TSR Foundation of T. Subbarami Reddy Film Society. in memory of producer-director Yash Chopra (died in 18.