List of Important Days Celebratedin Calendar Year in India 2014-15 JANUARY 1 Global Family Day, World Peace Day, Dr Sampurnanand Jayanti 2 African National Congress Foundation Day, Manali Winter Carnival 3 Hega Ngi (Assam Tribes Festival) 4 Bikaner Camel Festival, Full Moon Party-Ko Pha Ngan 5 World Environment Day, Anadaman Island Tourism Festival, Guru Govind Singh Jayanti 6 World Day for War Orphans, Epiphany(Christian Feast) 9 NRI Day, Pravasi Bhartiya Divas 10 World Laughter Day, Vishwa Hindi Diwas 11 Death anniversary of Lai Bahadur Shastri 12 National Youth Day (Birth day of Swami Vivekanand) 14 International Kite Festival (Ahmedabad), Mallapuram Dance Festival 15 Army Day, Pongal 21 Meghalaya Day, World Hug Day, Jaipur Literature Festival , Tripura Day 23 Netaji Subhash chandra Bose's birth anniversary Jyanti) 24 National Girl Child Day of India (Rashtriya Balika Diwas) 25 National Tourism Day, Voter's DayWorld Leprosy Day, HP Day 26 India's Republic Day, International Customs Day 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, World Leprosy Day 28 Data Protection Day, Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai 30 Mahatma Gandhi's Martyrdom Day(Martyrs Day), Leprosy Eradication DayFEBRUARY 2nd Sunday World Marriage Day 1 International Development Week, Guru Gorakhnath Jyanti, Indian Coast Guard Day, Jaisalmer Desert Festival 2 World Wetland day, Cancer Survivors Day 3 Guru Ravidas Jyanti 4 World Cancer Day, National Day of Srilanka 5 Kashmir Day, Berlin International Film Festival 6 International Day against Female Genital Mutilation 7 Madurai Float Festival 11 World Day of the Sick 12 Darwin Day, Abraham Lincoln Birthday 13 Sarojini Naidu's Birth Anniversary, Rio Carnival 145t. Valentine's Day, Swami Dayanand Saraswati Jyanti 16 George Washington’ s Birthday 19 Chinese New Year , Shivaji Jyanti 20 World Day of Social Justice, Khajauraho Dance Festival, Delhi Garden Festival 21 International Mother Language Day 22 World Scout Day 23 World Peace and Understanding Day, World Rotary Day 24 Central Excise Day 25 World Sustainable Energy Day 27 International Polar Bear Day 28 National Science DayMARCH 2nd Monday Commonwealth Day,2nd Thursday World Kidney Day 1 Universal Human Being Week, International Yoga Festival 3 National Defence Day, International Sex Worker Rights Day, International Women’ s Week National Security Day 5 Jaipur Elephant Fetsival 6 World Spelling Day 7 World Sustainable Energy Day 8 International Women's Day 9 CISF Raising Day, World Kidney Day, Commonwealth Day 12 Mauritius Day; Central Industrial Security Force Day 13 World Kidney Day, World Rotaract Day, World Sleep Day 15 World Consumer Rights Day, Mar World Disabled Day 16 National Vaccination Day 18 Ordnance Factories Day(India) 19 World Disabled Day 20 International Day of the Francophonie, World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People, Konkan Turtle Festival 21 World Forestry Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimation, Sun-Earth Day 22 World Water Day 23 World Meteorological Day 24 World TB Day, International Day for Achievers 25 International Day of Remembrance - Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade 26 Bangladesh Liberation Day 27 World Drama/Theater Day 30 National Doctors Day