Arabic Current Affairs, GK & News
April 23: English Language Day; Spanish Language Day
Every year, April 23 is celebrated as English Language Day. The Spanish Language Day is celebrated on the same day as well. English is one of the two working languages of the United Nations. The Day is also celebrated as World Book Day. Highlights The Day is celebrated as English Language Day to observe both ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs
Topics: Arabic • English Language Day • Official Languages • spanish language day • UNESCO • United Nations • William Shakespeare
April 20: UN Chinese Language Day
Every year, on April 20, the United Nations Chinese Language Day is observed. The day is observed to pay tribute to Cangjie. Cangjie is a mythical figure who invented Chinese Characters. The first UN Chinese Language Day was observed in 2010. About Cangjie The legend in China is believed to have four eyes. Also, it ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs
Topics: Arabic • Chinese • Language Days • Literacy and Multilingualism • Official language • Russian • Spanish • UN Chinese Language Day • United Nations • working language
English Language Day: 23 April
23 April is observed as English Language Day every year. 23rd April was chosen as the English Language Day to commemorate both the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare. The English Language Day was the result of a 2010 initiative by the Department of Public Information which had sought to establish language days for each of ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Topics: Arabic • Chinese • English • English Language Day • French • Language Days • Russian • Spanish • UN • William Shakespeare
UN English Language Day
The UN English Language Day is observed every year on 23rd of April to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six official languages throughout the Organization. These are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. For the English language, 23 April was chosen because it is the ..
Topics: Arabic • Arabic language • Cultural diversity • Culture • English language • Language • Language acquisition • Multilingualism • Official language • UN Arabic Language Day • UN Chinese Language Day • UN English Language Day
President’s Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman Awards Conferred
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu conferred President’s Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman Awards at New Delhi. Presidential Award of Certificate The award of the Certificate of Honour was introduced in the year 1958 to honour the scholars of Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian Languages. It was extended to cover Pali/Prakrit in the year 1996. ..
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Arabic • Certificate of Honour • Kannada • Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman Award • Malayalam • Ministry of Human Resources and Development • Odiya • Pali • Persian • Prakrit • Sanskrit • Tamil • Telugu