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Guru Arjun Dev Ji Martyrdom Day 2021: Know how the Mughal emperor Jahangir killed him

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Guru Arjan Dev ji was the fifth guru of the Sikhs. Shaheed Diwas or Chabeel Day is marked on the Martyrdom Day of this Sikh Guru who laid the foundation of Harmandar Sahib which is also known as Golden Temple.

Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Sikh Guru, compiled the first edition of the holy Sikh scripture, the Adi Granth, which was later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib. This was his 415th Martyrdom Day which is remembered “for his supreme sacrifice” and “contribution towards the compilation of Adi Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and the construction of Sri Harmandir Sahib.” 

In 1588 AD, Guru Arjan Dev laid the foundation of the Harmandar Sahib known as Golden Temple.

  • Guru Arjan Dev was arrested on Mughal Emperor Jahangir orders and was asked to convert to Islam but the Guru refused. He was executed in 1606.
  • Guru Arjan Dev laid the foundation of the Golden Temple and also prepared the map of the Golden Temple under his guidance.
  • The doors of the Golden Temple symbolise acceptance of all four castes and religions.
  • Guru Arjan Dev started the Masands system urging Sikhs to donate one-tenth of their income for charity.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2021: Theme, History, Significance, Quotes and More

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The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is celebrated each year on June 15 to educate people about the abuses suffered by senior citizens. 

This year’s World Elder Abuse Awareness Day stays relevant amid the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Experts recommend the elderly (those over the age of 60) should take precautions to safeguard themselves against the fatal virus since they are more vulnerable to it. 

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2021 Theme

The theme for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is “Access to Justice” which serves as a reminder of how critical it is to completely meet the needs of older people who may seek remedy.

Quotes

  • Let us all pledge to take extra care of our elders and nurture them with love and care they deserve especially during this COVID-19 pandemic which has left them more vulnerable.
  • Just because they are aged and scientifically weak, one cannot just shower them with all kinds of abuses. Let’s oppose together on this World elder Abuse Awareness Day.
  • To care for those who once cared for us is one of the biggest honours.
  • The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. 
  • Let’s hope the child of the abusers doesn’t become like their parents and it is our job to create a better world for them.

Birthday Anniversary of Taraknath Das: Great freedom fighter & founder of Vivekananda Society

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Taraknath Das was an internationalist and anti-British scholar, a freedom fighter who helped liberate India from clutches of the British rule and floated Vivekananda Society, contributing to the nation’s cause.

During his career, he served as a professor at Columbia University and taught politics.

Meanwhile, he also served as a visiting professor at various universities.

Born in Bengal in 1884 in a middle class family to Kalimohan, who worked as an employee in the Central Telegraph Office, he has had a great writing qualities which made it noticeable by the lawyer P. Mitter who had recruited him.

Later, Taraknath Das went to Calcutta for university studies and during his attempt to liberate India, he even tried to join the Vermont Military Academy but was expelled from his country because of his anti-British movements.

He passed M.A. and completed his doctorate at the University of Washington. He was married to Mary Morse who has been his friend Mary Keatinge and was also the founder of the association that discriminated against people of color. In 1935, with the support of his wife, he opened the Taraknath Das Foundation. 

The foundation aimed at promoting educational activities and even established a cultural relationship between Asians and the United States.

After 11 years of struggle in 1946, his citizenship was restored in the United States.

He also founded the Vivekananda Society in Calcutta.

Contributions made from Taraknath Das

Founder of the Indian Independence League, which is carried out with the active participation of Panduranga Khankoje. 

He even received funds to start his newspaper called Free Hindustan, which was published in English.

The newspaper was claimed as the first publication of South Asia made in Canada. 

In 1907, Taraknath Das established an association called the Hindustani Association.

Taraknath Das even founded a boarding school for children who were Asian immigrants and the school was called Swadesh Sevak Home. 

In this school, there were special night classes to learn English and mathematics, which helped the Indians send letters home.

His newspaper, Free Hindustan, was an anti-British body that led to the formation of the Gadar Party and encouraged the people. After the uprising of 1857, the Gadar Party was the first organized step for freedom.

To pay tribute to the contribution of Taraknath Das, there are several foundations that provide funds to the Indian student who studies and stays in the United States who have completed a year of study and continues his studies to complete his diploma.

Success Story of Steel King Lakshmi Niwas Mittal

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Success story of Steel king Lakshmi Niwas Mittal has been quite inspiring as he bought the dying steel factories and rejuvenated them by sending his teams who reorganised the businesses there and turned them into profitable entity.

Lakshmi Mittal, born in Rajasthan in Sadulpur, in 1950 on June 15 has been CEO of world’s largest steelmaking company, Arcelor Mittal in 2006.

In the 1960s, Mittal’s family moved to Kolkata as his father operated a steel mill there. Mittal started working at the mill while studying at St Xavier’s College.

After graduating in the year 1970, he served as a trainee at the mill, and in 1976, opened his own steel mill in Indonesia and spent more than a decade learning how to run it efficiently. 

In 1989, Mittal purchased the state-owned steel works in Trinidad and Tobago, which was losing huge sums of money. A year later, it doubled its output and became profitable. He used a similar formula in a series of acquisitions all around the world by purchasing failing (mostly state-run) outfits and sending in special management teams to profits the businesses.

Mittal’s business philosophy emphasised consolidation in sector which had become weak and fragmented. 

Mittal’s company, however, controlled about 40 percent of the American market for the flat-rolled steel which was  used to make cars. It allowed the giant steelmaker to negotiate more favourable prices.

 In 2004, Mittal merged his companies, Ispat International and LNM Holdings, and acquired Ohio-based International Steel Group which created Mittal Steel Co. NV, the world’s largest steelmaker. Two years later, Mittal Steel joined with Arcelor to form ArcelorMittal.

Anna Hazare (Kisan Baburao Hazare): Know who is this famous Indian social activist ?

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Anna Hazare, born in Bhingar, near Ahmadnagar, India, in a farming family on June 15, 1938, stands synonymous to honesty and activism who fights for a cause silently but ensures his voice reaches every corner.

After serving Army for 12 years, Anna started the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolan in Ralegaon Siddhi to fight against corruption in 1991.

In 1992, for efforts in establishing this village as a model for others, Anna was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

On 5 April 2011, Anna started a hunger strike to exert pressure on the Indian government to enact a Lokpal Bill, a stringent anti-corruption law. After the government accepted Hazare’s demands, Anna ended fast on 9 April 2011.

Anna participated in the satyagraha movement in 2011, This aimed for a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal bill in the Indian parliament, which was drafted by Kiran Bedi, a social activist and a retired Indian Police Service officer, Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal, a social activist, and N. Santosh Hegde, Lokayukta of Karnataka and a former justice of the Supreme Court of India.

The Indian government issued a gazette notification consisting of government, civil society representatives, and formation of a joint committee to draft the legislation.

Hazare also contributed to the structuring and development of a village named Ralegan Siddhi in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. 

Anna Hazare: His childhood, young age and profession

Hazare was the eldest son of Laxmi Bai and Baburao Hazare who worked as an unskilled laborer in Ayurveda Ashram Pharmacy. He has four brothers and two sisters.

His siblings never attended school as his father struggled to support the family financially. In fact, he adopted the name Anna, which means “elder person” or “father” in Marathi, however, his real name was Kisan Baburao Hazare.

Anna started selling flowers at the Dadar railway station in Mumbai and eventually managed to own two flower shops in the city.

Anna grew up in the village of Ralegan Siddhi, near Ahmadnagar in Maharashtra state, India and led movements to promote rural development punish and investigate corruption in public life and increase government transparency.

In 1963, he joined the Army and became an army truck driver He remained in the army until 1978.

Hazare undertook army training at Aurangabad. 

Even during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Anna was posted at the Khem Karan sector border where he miraculously survived an enemy attack.

After completing 12 years of service as ray driver, Anna was honorably discharged in 1975.

However, determined to use his life to improve the common welfare, he began a rural development social project in Ralegan Siddhi, which suffered from unemployment, poverty, drought, and crime.

His reading habits

He spent his spare time reading the works of Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, and Vinoba Bhave and also read Swami Vivekananda’s book “Call to the youth for nation-building” many times which inspired him to think deeper.

Anna started the Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolan in Ralegaon Siddhi to fight against corruption in 1991.

Hazare also contributed to the structuring and development of a village named Ralegan Siddhi in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. 

In 1992, for efforts in establishing this village as a model for others, Anna was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

Anna Hazare lives a very austere life in a single room attached to the Sant Yadavbaba temple since 1975.

Hazare is unmarried. He owns 0.07 hectares of family land. Anna declared ₹1,500 as cash on hand and his bank balance of ₹67,183.

World Nature Photography Day 2021 Theme, History, Significance, Captions and More

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Nature Photography Day is celebrated each year on June 15 by the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) to promote the concept of nature photography and to capture the beauty of nature through the eyes of a camera.

June 15 is celebrated as the Nature Photography Day which started with the efforts of The North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) in 2006.

The day aims to encourage people to learn and enjoy capturing the beauty of nature through their cameras.

The day also promotes conservation through photography.

What is Nature photography?

Nature photography is photography branch which clicks pictures of natural elements including landscapes, geological formations, and flora and fauna in their natural habitats and in zoos.

Preserving Nature’s Bounties

NANPA is a the United State based NGO promoting nature photography as a way to preserve and conserve nature and to promote appreciation of the bounties of our natural environment.

How to celebrate the day..

  • Capture sunrise and sunset 
  • Join a photography club and participate in any events they may have on this day.
  • Take a hike with your family and friends and take in the nature around you, while capturing the scenes with your camera.
  • Share your favorite outdoorsy picture on social media.
  • Volunteer time and money to a local conservation organization.

Global Wind Day 2021 Theme, History, Significance and More

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Global Wind Day or World Wind Day is a worldwide event held worldwide on 15 June. Wanna know what is wind energy and what are wind farms? Know all about it and more here with the EBNW Story…

World Wind Day is celebrated with joy and excitement all over the world on June 15, 2021. The day aims at increasing awareness about wind energy and reflects the message how it can change the world for the better. Ahead of World Wind Day, EBNW Story features the World Wind Day 2021 theme, World Wind Day history and its significance. 

World Wind Day history

Global Wind Day is organised jointly by WindEurope and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the national associations. The first observance of the day was held in the year 2007 to introduce people to wind energy and its benefits through a series of activities. However, till the year 2009, it was not a World Wind Day or Global Wind Day. Since then the day has evolved to become more inclusive and the aim of this day has spread in various countries till now.

Since 2007 the day is celebrated annually.

As far as the World Wind Day 2021 theme is concerned, it has not yet  been announced. Here is a look at the World Wind Day significance.

World Wind Day significance

At a time when the threat of global warming is looming large over the world, it becomes important to use energy forms like wind in an efficient way. 

The globalwindday.org says that wind energy is currently a mature and mainstream technology. It is also one of the fastest-growing industrial sectors in the world with over $100 billion invested in 2015.

Who is Naftali Bennett, the new Israeli PM

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Naftali Bennett, 49, is the new Prime Minister of Israel, known as a religious-nationalist who is a multi-millionaire former tech entrepreneur and has also served as defence minister.  With this win, he has ended 12 unbroken years of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm.

Who is Naftali Bennett?

Naftali Bennett is son of American-born parents who speaks perfect English. He is a religious Jew who started life with his parents in Haifa and kept moving between North America and Israel for military service, law school and private sector. He is an ultra-nationalist and & hard-right leader. He served in elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit after which he went to law school at Hebrew University. He co-founded an anti-fraud software company called Cyota in 1999.  Cyota was sold to U.S.-based RSA Security in 2005.

How Bennett entered politics?

Bennett had a bitter experience of Israel’s 2006 war against Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. This incident drove him to politics.

Will Israel’s relation with India change now?

India and Israel share a strong bilateral tie since 1950 with Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru reiterating his position to recognise Israel as a state. Presently, India is the largest buyer of Israeli military equipment while Israel is second-largest defence supplier to India after Russia. India is the third-largest Asian trade partner and tenth-largest trade partner overall of Israel. India’s relationship with Israel has grew during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration even though India abstaining from voting against Israel in UN on several resolutions. It is expected to grow with same pace in new regime as well.

Govt of India approves a policy on declassification of War histories

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The policy on declassification of War histories, approved by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Government of India, will allow archiving, declassifying, compiling and publishing war and operations histories.

However, declassification of older wars like of 1962 war is not automatic.

Declassification will be taken up on case-by-case basis by a committee which will be constituted under the new policy.

As per policy, records should ordinarily be declassified in 25 years.

Records which are older than 25 years should be appraised by archival experts and transferred to National Archives of India after histories of war or operations have been compiled.

Will all reports on wars be public?

Committee will take a view on earlier wars and operations. Compiled history on wars and operations will be consumed internally first, within five years. After that, the committee may decide to publicly release whole or parts of it based on the sensitivity of subject.

About Committee to be constituted

As per policy, a committee will be constituted which will be headed by Joint Secretary of MoD.  It will comprise of representatives of Services, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and prominent military historians for compilation of war & operations histories. History Division of the committee will be responsible to coordinate with various departments while compiling, for approval & publishing of war and operations histories.

Background

Proposal of having war histories written with clear cut policy on declassification was recommended by Kargil Review Committee headed by K Subrahmanyam and NN Vohra Committee to analyse lessons learnt and prevent future mistakes.

4 serene gardens of Jaipur for sightseeing & photography

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Jaipur is blessed to have a few amongst the world’s best landscaped gardens which are a great spot for sightseeing, photography and relaxation. EBNW Story takes a snapshot at these gardens luring you to take a visit here to wash away all your stress amid the lush greenery spread around..

Jawahar Circle: This garden is considered to be the Asia’s largest circular park, bordered by a rose garden, which is a beauty to behold.

Created by the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) in 2009, this park offers a number of paths for jogging and is an ideal place to relax during evening hours.

Kanak Vrindavan: This landscaped garden situated at the foothills of Nahargarh on the way to Amber Fort houses an intricately carved temple, marble columns and lattices, making it an ideal location to spend a day in. Offering a great spot for sightseeing, photography and relaxing, it is also a delight for bird watchers as they can spot a variety of birds here like neel kanth, spotted dove and kingfisher. The garden was built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh and is said to be emulated after a mythological garden where Lord Krishna used to play. This was meant as the king’s recreational retreat. One can also find a spiritual spot here where several rivers meet. The water is considered holy here and a temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu has been built nearby.

Ram Niwas Garden: This garden, built by Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh in 1868, houses the Albert Hall Museum, a zoo, a bird park, the Ravindra Rang Manch theatre, an art gallery and an exhibition ground. People visit here for the garden’s various picnic spots. It also appeals to birdwatchers as one can spot several species here.

Sisodia Rani Palace And Garden: The Sisodia Rani Palace and Garden, located 8 km from Jaipur, was constructed by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II for his queen Sisodia, a princess of Udaipur, in 1728. He gifted the garden to the queen to spend her idol time in. Laid out in a blend of Mughal and Indian styles, it is a multi-tiered garden with built-in waterways, fountains and pavilions. A natural spring and small shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva, Lord Hanuman and Lord Vishnu are also worth visiting here. The garden overlooks the palace that houses paintings of hunting scenes and scenes from the legends of Lord Krishna and Radha.

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