National Science Day observed

National Science Day was celebrated across India on 28 February 2016. Theme for this day was Scientific Issues for Development of the Nation.
•    This day is celebrated annually to remember the discovery of the Raman Effect by Indian Physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on 28 February 1928.
•    He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 
•    This was the first Nobel Prize for India in the field of Science.
•    The first National Science Day was celebrated on 28 February 1987.
•    Raman Effect is a phenomenon in which light changes its wavelength when a light beam is deflected by molecules. 
•    This was discovered by CV Raman while working in a laboratory of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of science, Kolkata.
•    World Science Day for Peace and Development is annually celebrated worldwide on 10 November. 
•    The day was established by UNESCO in 2001.