Holiday Calendar for India in JuneIndia is a land of unity in diversity. Indian Culture and traditions are something which has now become renowned all across the world is full of several unique customs and traditions, which outsiders might find really intriguing. India sees a large number of festivals, mainly because of the prevalence of diverse religions and groups. Indian traditions, notable events, festivals, special days and national holidays in India Help us National traditions, public holidays and notable observances for 2024-2025 yearJune 2024Tuesday 4 June - Birthday of Bhagat Puran Singh (holiday and memorial day of Sikhs, representatives of the monotheistic religion founded in the Punjab in India in the 15th century. Bhagat Puran Singh [1904-1992] in his youth decided to devote his life to selfless service to humanity) Sunday 16 June - Father's Day (Ñelebrated on the third Sunday of June øò Argentina, Aruba, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Kenya, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Venezuela, United Kingdom) Thursday 27 June - Guru Puja Holiday (Hinduism. Guru Puja or the tradition of honoring your teacher is the main and simplest yoga puja. It is performed in the morning and evening) July 2024Monday 1 July - Doctors' Day in India; The first day of Van Mahotsav in India (celebrated until July 7. Van Mahotsav is an annual tree-planting movement in India, which began in 1950. The name Van Mahotsava means FESTIVAL OF FORESTS); State Bank of India Day Thursday 4 July - The first evening of Dree Festival (Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India; celebrated until July 7) Sunday 7 July - Ratha Yatra (Held on the second day of Shukla Pakshi of the Hindu lunar month of Ashadha) Thursday 11 July - Engineer's Day in India, Telangana (The Telangana state celebrates Engineers day on July 11th on the birthday of Ali Nawaz Jung Bahadur) Wednesday 17 July - U Tirot Sing Day (Meghalaya, India) Wednesday 31 July - Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh (Haryana and Punjab, India) August 2024Saturday 3 August - Stephen (Discovery of the relic. Christian feast day) Monday 12 August - National Librarian's Day in India (in remembrance of national professor of library science, Dr S R Ranganathan [1892-1972], who had spearheaded library development in India) Thursday 15 August - India Independence Day (is celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947) Thursday 22 August - Madras Day (Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India) Monday 26 August - Janmashtam (commemoration of the birth of Krishna) September 2024Saturday 14 September - Hindi Divas (Hindi-speaking regions) Sunday 15 September - Engineer's Day in India (The Engineering Community across India is celebrating Engineers Day on 15 September every year as a remarkable tribute to the greatest Indian Engineer Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya [popularly known as Sir MV]. He is held in high regard as a pre-eminent engineer of India. "Engineering for A Healthy Planet" is the theme of Engineers Day 2021) Tuesday 17 September - Marathwada Liberation Day (Maharashtra, India) Sunday 22 September - National Daughters Day in India (is celebrated on the 4th Sunday of September every year); International Daughters' Day (Celebrated on the fourth Sunday of September) October 2024Wednesday 2 October - Gandhi Jayanti in India (Gandhi's birthday-related observances) Thursday 3 October - Dashain (is celebrated by the Buddhist, Hindus and Kirats of Nepal and the ethnic Nepali speaking Indian Gorkhas of Darjeeling hills, Sikkim, Dehradun, Kumaun & Gadwal and other North-Eastern states of India and among the Lhotshampa of Bhutan and the Burmese Gurkhas of Myanmar) Saturday 26 October - Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir, India) Wednesday 30 October - Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community, India) November 2024Friday 1 November - Chavang Kut (Mizo people of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma); Haryana Foundation Day (Haryana, India); Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka, India); Kerala Foundation Day (Kerala, India); Chhattisgarh Rajyotsava or Chhattisgarh Foundation Day in India; Diwali in USA Thursday 7 November - Tokhu Emong (Lotha Naga people of India) Thursday 14 November - Bal Diwas in India (celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru. Children's Day) Tuesday 26 November - Constitution Day in India; National Milk Day in India; World Day Against the Indiscriminate Use of Agrochemicals December 2024Sunday 1 December - Sindhi Cultural Day (Date for 2024; celebrated on the first Sunday in December. Sindhi diaspora) Saturday 14 December - National Energy Conservation Day in India (since 1991); World Energy Conservation Day Monday 23 December - Kisan Diwas (Uttar Pradesh, India) January 2025Sunday 5 January - Birth of Guru Gobind Singh (The occasion is celebrated by Sikhs and Sikh diasporas all over the world) Thursday 9 January - Non-Resident Indian Day (India) Friday 10 January - World Hindi Day (Vishwa Hindi Diwas) Monday 13 January - Lohri (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh) Wednesday 15 January - Army Day in India; Thai Pongal, Tamil harvest festival in India; Jallikattu in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu (is a traditional spectacle in which a bull, such as the Pulikulam or Kangayam breeds, is released into a crowd of people, and multiple human participants attempt to grab the large hump on the bull's back with both arms and hang on to it while the bull attempts to escape) Sunday 19 January - Kokborok Day (Tripura, India) Thursday 23 January - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal, India) Friday 31 January - Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba) February 2025Friday 14 February - Parents' Worship Day in India (Hindi: मातृ-पितृ पूजन दिवस as an alternative to Valentine's Day) March 2025Tuesday 25 March - Phaghwa (or Holi Phagwa is considered as the famous Hindu spring festival and has got many names as per the region and the community like its knwon as Phaghwa in Bhojpuri and in west Bengal, it is known as Dolyatra) April 2025Wednesday 2 April - Odisha Day (Odisha, India) Monday 14 April - Ambedkar Jayanti in India; Mahl New Year or Alathu Aharudhuvas (Maldives and India's Lakshadweep and Kerala state) Wednesday 23 April - Khongjom Day (Manipur, India) Monday 28 April - Lawyers' Day (Odisha, India) May 2025Thursday 1 May - Gujarat Day in India (commemoration of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat following the foundation of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti) Monday 12 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe) Wednesday 21 May - Day of struggle against terrorism in India (commemorated on the anniversary of the death of the seventh Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as a result of the terrorist act); International Tea Day Also about some indian traditionsWe all refer to India and its culture as something very diverse and unique. The namaste is one of the most popular Indian customs is one of the five forms of traditional greetings one another with it is a way of saying "May our minds meet". Indian food and cuisine not only form an integral part of Indian culture but are also one of the key factors of India’s popularity worldwide. Wazwan is less a cuisine and more a tradition among Kashmiris. It is art served on a traem (platter) that involves a 36-course meal. Chhau Dance: another important tradition from India that made it to UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010 is the classical Chhau dance, from Odisha. In 2013, Sankirtana dance was inscribed in UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. A Pung Cholom dance, which is part of the Sankirtana tradition. The Festival Nag Panchami usually falls during the months of July and August. In Hindu culture, serpent blessings are sought to bring peace and welfare to the family. Cow, in the Indian culture, is considered to be a Holy animal. Killing the cow or consuming cow meet is considered to be a sin. In India, there exists the concept of a joint family, wherein the entire family (parents, wife, children and in some cases relatives) all live together. Faith, family and castes shape just about every aspect of Indian culture - from birth to death - and all the trials and parties in between. Global Day of ParentsThe Global Day of Parents is observed on the 1st of June every year. The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 2012 with resolution A..→
National Child’s DayChildren’s Day is recognized on various days in many places around the world to honor children globally. It was first proclaimed by the World Co..→
Birthday of Jefferson Davis in FloridaThe birthday of Jefferson Davis is commemorated in several states. His actual birthday, June 3, is celebrated in Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana an..→
Confederate Memorial Day in Kentucky, Louisiana and TennesseeIn Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee,Confederate Memorial Day is observed on June 3. On this day in 1808 was the birthday of Jefferson Davis (th..→
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Jefferson F..→
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of AggressionOn 19 August 1982, at its emergency special session on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly, “appalled at the great number of innocen..→
World Environment Day"Although individual decisions may seem small in the face of global threats and trends, when billions of people join forces in common purpo..→
World Oceans DayWhy do we celebrate World Oceans Day?
To remind everyone of the major part the Ocean has in everyday life. They are the lungs of our planet, pr..→
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King Kamehameha I Day in HawaiiKamehameha Day on June 11 is a public holiday of the state of Hawaii in the United States. It honors Kamehameha the Great, the monarch who first..→
World Day Against Child LabourThe International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child..→
International Albinism Awareness DayPeople with albinism face multiple forms of discrimination worldwide. Albinism is still profoundly misunderstood, socially and medically. The ph..→
Flag Day and Army Birthday in the United StatesIn the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that d..→
Robert La Follette Sr. Day in WisconsinRobert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) is widely regarded as Wisconsin’s most distinguished poli..→
World Blood Donor DayEvery year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day ([WHO] (WHA58.13)). The event serves to thank voluntary, unp..→
Elder Abuse Awareness Day in OhioThe fifteenth day of June is designated as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day" to increase public awareness of the innocent victims of elder a..→
World Elder Abuse Awareness DayThe global population of people aged 60 years and older will more than double, from 542 million in 1995 to about 1.2 billion in 2025. Around 4 t..→
International Day of Family RemittancesAs per the Remittances Stats, one in every ten people around the globe is directly associated with remittances. The U.S. is the largest remittan..→
Bunker Hill Day in MassachusettsThe Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War..→
World Day to Combat Desertification and DroughtThe World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) is observed worldwide on 17 June every year (UN: A/RES/49/115).
Tackling hunger requires a multi..→
Emancipation Day in Texas (Juneteenth)Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is the name given to Emancipation Day by African-Americans in Texas. On that day in 1865 Union Major-General ..→
International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict“Women’s security and empowerment remain priorities for the Secretary-General. The international community must not rest until all violence agai..→
Juneteenth National Freedom Day in OhioThe nineteenth day of June is designated as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" to acknowledge the freedom, history, and culture that Ju..→
Summer Solstice (International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice)Although summer solstice marks the beginning of summer, it is not the hottest time of the year and Earth is not the only planet to have a summer..→
West Virginia DayThe New River Gorge Bridge, in Fayetteville (WV), is the longest steel-arch bridge in the United States spanning 1, 815 feet across the New Rive..→
World Refugee DayAt the end of 2013, there were 16.7 million refugees worldwide, with the highest number in Pakistan (1.6 million). We are now in 2016 witnessing..→
Go Skateboarding DayIn effect Californians created a surfboard with wheels. California was the birthplace of the skateboarding culture. In 1976, Florida built the f..→
International Day of YogaSeveral scholars have noted that yoga had been packaged so well as a defense against illness and aging that it is “easy to lose sight of its rea..→
International Widows’ DayAccording to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one-third of all women who become widowed are younger than age 60, and half of th..→
United Nations Public Service DayThe UN General Assembly, in its resolution 57/277, designated 23 June as Public Service Day.
The UN Public Service Day intends to celebrate the..→
Day of the SeafarerThe International Maritime Organization (IMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for measures to improve the saf..→
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit TraffickingBy resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit..→
United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of TortureTorture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. The United Nations has condemned tortur..→
Helen Keller DayHelen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person t..→
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International Day of the TropicsIn the Tropics, just over 70% of people had access to electricity in 2012, up from 56% in 1990. Although access has improved considerably, it re..→
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