National Education Day: Why is it celebrated on November 11?

As a mark of respect and to commemorate the birth anniversary of freedom fighter and independent India’s first Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the nation will be celebrating the National Education Day on November 11. From 1947 to 1958, he served as the first education minister of the independent India. Maulana Azad considered schools as laboratories which produce future citizens of the country and, therefore, emphasised on quality education. He strongly advocated universal primary education, girls’ education, free and compulsory education for all children upto the age of 14, vocational training and technical education.

SOURCE- http://indianexpress.com/article/education/national-education-day-why-is-it-celebrated-on-november-11/

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Gandhi Jayanti

2 October Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday The birthday of the Mahatma Gandhi is celebrated in India every year by the name Gandhi Jayanti or Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. It falls yearly on 2nd of October when there is a gazetted holiday all over the India. On second of October a great person Mahatma Gandhi was born in the year 1869 at Porbandar in the Gujarat to the Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai. Mahatma Gandhi is also known as Bapu in India for his unforgettable contributions and struggle for the freedom of Indian. All the Government offices, banks, schools, colleges, post offices and etc are closed on 2nd of October. Some of the Businesses and organizations are open for small hours to celebrate the day. Gandhi Jayanti Celebration at Raj Ghat In India the Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated as the national holiday by making prayer meetings and paying homage in front of the statue at the Raj Ghat New Delhi. Gandhi Jayanti 2013 would fall at Wednesday on 2nd of October. Prayer is held (in the presence of President and Prime Minister of the India) at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi where he was cremated. His most preferred and devotional song (Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram) is sung in the remembrance of him. Gandhi Jayanti Celebration in Schools Grand celebration events are organized by the major schools in India to celebrate the Gandhi Jayanti at 2nd of October every year. Students of schools enthusiastically take part in the Gandhi Jayanti event celebrations. Gandhi Jayanti, a birthday anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi is also celebrated as the International Peace Day all across the world. Students sing a song based on the truth and non violence message of Bapu, recite poems and present their own sights on the Gandhian philosophy by the speeches and recitations. Small children celebrate this event by dressing up same as the Gandhi ji as well as performing the nationalistic songs. Students also take part in the rally using banners which conveys the significance of peace and non-violence throughout the country. In the end of the celebration, students and teachers take a pledge. How it is Celebrated People in India celebrate the birthday anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi every year on 2nd of October by including the following events: People perform the prayer services, memorial ceremonies and homage all over the India. Exhibitions of art, science and competitions of essay held. Awards presentations take place in order to promote the living of non-violent life. People used of seeing the films and reading the books related to the achievements and life struggle of the Mahatma Gandhi. People at many places in India like schools, colleges used to sing the famous devotional song of the Bapu “Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram”. Garlands of beautiful flowers are placed on the statues of Mahatma Gandhi all through the India by the people. Some people avoid taking meat and alcohol at this day.

CBSE asks schools to do more to reduce weight of students’ bags

Concerned that students continue to stoop under the weight of heavy school bags, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday asked affiliated schools to enforce additional measures to lighten students’ burden. 

In the footsteps of the Maharashtra government — which enforced a new school bag policy last year limiting the weight of the bag to 10% the weight of the child — the CBSE in April issued an advisory that affiliated schools, too, must make bags lighter. The board has suggested ways in which schools, teachers and parents can achieve this, based on their feedback. 

One of the major suggestions is that schools should ask students to stick to the timetable and make them aware about the effects of fatigue caused owing to heavy bags on their daily performance in class. “Young children whose spine is at a crucial stage of growth are most susceptible to back, muscle, shoulder pain and in extreme cases the distortion of spinal cord… the impact may well be irreversible,” read the circular issued by KK Choudhary, director, academic, research and training

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National Sports Day: Why Dhyan Chand's birthday is celebrated as Rashtriya Khel Divas

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, during his "Mann Ki Baat" radio address, said a lot of things about the just-concluded Rio Olympics and the Indian athletes who shone in it. However, he started his speech with hockey wizard Dhyan Chand, reminding the nation that Aug. 29 was the day this sporting legend was born in 1905, and hence this day was celebrated as Rashtriya Khel Diwas. 

Who was Dhyan Chand?

Born on Aug. 29, 1905, to a Rajput family in Allahabad, Dhyan Chand would grow up to join the Army, just like his father Sameshwar Singh. It was in the Army where Dhyan Chand took up hockey, having never played it seriously before, according to his own recollections. His younger brother Roop Chand would later follow in his footsteps. 

His real name was Dhyan Singh, but because he used to practise at night only in moonlight — floodlight would come to India much later, and to hockey even later — his friends and colleagues gave him the name "Chand," meaning moon. 

The Indian Hockey Federation had lobbied massively for the reintroduction of field hockey in the 1928 Olympics, and after they managed to make that happen, were looking for the best team to send there. For this, they organised an inter-provincial tournament in 1925, but the Army team, for which Dhyan Chand played, was not among them. He obtained permission from his team to play for the United Provinces — one of the five teams in the competition. 

Overcoming financial difficulties and sickness in the last match, India won the gold in the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics, a feat they would go on to repeat in the next two Olympics. And on all three occasions, Dhyan Chand would star. 

In fact, he would be selected without formalities for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics when his platoon refused him leave for another inter-provincial tournament for the games, while the rest of his teammates had to participate. India would win the gold again by defeating hosts USA by a 24-1 margin, a record that would take more than 70 years to break. 

he would again be refused permission to participate in the inter-provincial tournament before the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but having been chosen to captain the team, was again selected without formalities. The team won the gold again, allowing only a single goal to be scored against them throughout the tournament. 

Legend has it that Hitler, impressed by Dhyan Chand's mastery of the game, offered him German citizenship and a higher rank than he had in the Indian Army. He refused.

Long before this, Dhyan Chand had earned the moniker of "wizard" or "magician" of hockey, something Modi referred to when speaking about him in the "Mann Ki Baat" programme on Sunday. He quoted a famous sentence by cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman about Dhyan Chand: "He scores goals like runs." The compliment was all the more significant because it came from a man who had finished his Test career with a Test carrier of 99.94. https://in.news.yahoo.com/national-sports-day-why-celebrate-142727518.html

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Three unassuming women became the redeemers for India at the Rio Olympics as the country concluded its campaign with some good, bad and ugly memories.

Defying all odds and showing killer instincts, PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar became the unlikely heroines and saved the country's pride from returning empty-handed for the first time since Barcelona 1992.

The trio notched a few firsts for India; Sindhu, at 21, became the youngest to win an Olympic medal, a silver which was never achieved in badminton; and Sakshi's bronze was also a first for women's wrestling.

India's first female gymnast Dipa went on to miss a bronze by 0.15 points but her clean finish in the high-risk Produnova vault won the hearts of a nation.

Source - Times of India

 Thursday, nearly two weeks of frustration, disappointment and hurt at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games came to an end when Sakshi Malik+ became the first woman wrestler from India to bag an Olympic medal, and only the fourth female athlete from the country to stand at the podium at the pinnacle of world sport.

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