Important Days
World No Tobacco Day – May 31
- It aims at raising awareness about the health risks associated with tobacco consumption.
- The World Health Organization in 1987 adopted the resolution for the creation of a global observance day.
- The first World No Tobacco Day was observed on May 31, 1988.
- Theme for 2023 is “We need food, not tobacco.”
Note
- After china, India is the country to produce cigar and cigarette largely.
Awards And Honours
57th Jnanpith Award
- Renowned Konkani novelist and short story writer Damodar Mauzo won the 57th Jnanpith Award.
- The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually.
- It was given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith a literary and research organization, based in New Delhi.
- Damodar Mauzo was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983.
- The first Konkani writer to win this literary award was Ravindra Kelekar in 2006.
- Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan won the 56th Jnanpith Award.
- Phookan is the third Assamese writer to have received the Jnanpith
