{"id":8019,"date":"2020-05-18T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2020-05-18T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:50:01","slug":"international-day-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/international-day-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: International<\/strong><\/span><\/header>\n<\/section>\n<header><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photonicsweden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/UNESCO-IDL-logo.jpg\" alt=\"UNESCO-IDL-logo - PhotonicSweden\" \/><\/header>\n<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 UNESCO celebrated the International Day of Light on<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> 16 May.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The International Day of Light is celebrated on 16 May each year, the anniversary of the first successful operation of the laser in 1960 by physicist and engineer, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Theodore Maiman.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This day celebrates the role light plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The International Day of Light is administered from the International Basic Science Programme (IBSP) of UNESCO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: International Why in news? \u2022 UNESCO celebrated the International Day of Light on 16 May. About: \u2022 The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8023,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions\/8023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}