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DAYS AND EVENTS - April 2020

Apr 2020

Mar 14, 2021

First Meeting of BRICS Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues

The BRICS Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues (CGETI) held their first meeting under the Chair ship of India. The meeting was held from March 9 to March 11, 2021. The meeting was held under the Theme –"BRICS @15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation, and Consensus".
India under its Chair ship for 2021, presented a calendar of events for BRICS CGETI 2021. Those events comprise of priority areas for deliverables, schedule and scope of MSME roundtable conference workshop on Services Statistics and BRICS Trade Fair. It was followed by several presentations made by the concerned department on proposed deliverables during the India's Chair ship under BRICS CGETI track.

PM Modi Inaugurates Global Ayurveda Festival

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the fourth edition of the Global Ayurveda Festival through video conference.
This festival will be held virtually between March 12 and March 19.
Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister V Muraleedharan, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) President Uday Shankar and former FICCI President Dr Sangita Reddy were also be present at the event.
Muraleedharan is the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the festival.
The festival will also include international seminars, a global exhibition and business meet. The festival will hold an all-time record in the number of delegates, the number of scientists presenting papers and the number of participating countries and institutions.

Mar 13, 2021

APEDA Launches its First Virtual Trade Fair

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) launched the first virtual trade fair. It concluded on March 12, 2021.
This trade fair was organised in order to boost the export of agricultural and processed food products. APEDA has initiated this concept of the virtual trade fair because of the COVID-19 related restrictions. It was organised to sustain the agricultural and processed food products exports of India.
The fair is being organised under the theme "India Rice and Agro Commodity". This fair will focus on showcasing exports potential of several agricultural commodities.
The virtual trade fair saw the participation by the importers and exporters. These potential buyers or importers and visitors will get a chance to explore a huge range of food products. These products will be presented by exporters through the virtual fair.

Mar 11, 2021

World Kidney Day

World Kidney Day is a global health awareness campaign focusing on the importance of the kidneys and reducing the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide.
World Kidney Day is observed annually on the 2nd Thursday in March. At the start of this holiday, 66 countries observed this date in 2006.
Within two years, this number rose to 88. WKD is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF).
This holiday was intended to raise awareness about conditions of the kidney; although many are treatable, they are a secondary medical concern of the greater population.

Mar 10, 2021

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Raising Day

The Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) Raising Day is celebrated on March 10 annually. It was set up under the act of the Parliament of India in 1969. CISF was created for the better protection and security of industrial undertakings in the country. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was established with 3 battalions. Each battalion provided integrated security to the public sector undertakings (PSUs). It is no longer a PSU-centric force.
CISF started with a strength of over 3000 crew members and today the number of personnel has reached over 1,30,000. With time CISF has evolved to become the multi-skill security agency of the country mandated to provide security to the major installations across the country.

Mar 08, 2021

UN Congress on Crime Prevention Begins in Japan's Kyoto

The 14th UN Convention on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was held in the Japanese city Kyoto.
This year's event was held in a hybrid format. Key issues related to criminal justice, strategies of crime prevention and international cooperation in promoting the rule of law and preventing all forms of crime were discussed.
This is the first time that Japan hosted the congress since 1970.

International Women's Day

International Women's Day is celebrated on 8th March around the world. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights.
After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on February 28, 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference that "a special Women's Day" be organized annually. After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted by the feminist movement in about 1967. The United Nations began celebrating the day in 1977.
Commemoration of International Women's Day today ranges from being a public holiday in some countries to being largely ignored elsewhere. In some places, it is a day of protest; in others, it is a day that celebrates womanhood.
The earliest Women's Day observance, called "National Woman's Day", was held on February 28, 1909, in New York City, organized by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of activist Theresa Malkiel.
The theme for International Women's Day 2021 is 'Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world'.

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