SAI Kerala State Electricity Board Trivandrum team have become champions of the Khelo India Senior Women's Volleyball tournament which concluded today at the Eastern Railway Indoor Stadium in Behala, Kolkata.

The women's team, captained by Jini KS, an integral part of the India senior women's volleyball team since 2015. Jini and her team beat Indian Railways Red team in the final on Monday 3-0. The team, mostly consisting of trainees from SAI National Centre of Excellence Trivandrum won all their matches in the league cum knockout tournament in Kolkata, without dropping a single set.

In the other match of the day, Keral Police beat Indian Railways Blue team 3-1 to finish in the 3rd place.

Teachers' Day is being celebrated throughout the country today. The day is celebrated on the birth anniversary of educationist and former President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

President Droupadi Murmu has said that education in mother tongue is the cornerstone of inspiring talents in the fields of Science, literature and Social Sciences and National Education policy 2020, puts focus on this aspect. She said this while conferring the National Awards to 46 selected teachers on the occasion of Teachers' Day in New Delhi today. The  President said that the present age of knowledge economy is powered by research and innovation, and teachers should encourage the development of curious minds.  She said that teachers are the life force of Indian education, which is one of the largest education systems in the world, imparting education to more than 26 crore students in more than 15 lakh schools by about 97 lakh teachers.

The University Grant Commission has launched new research fellowship and research grants schemes. They are Savitribai Jyotirao Phule Fellowship for Single Girl Child, Dr Radhakrishnan UGC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Superannuated Faculty Members Fellowship, Research Grant for In-Service Faculty Members and Dr D S Kothari Research Grant for Newly Recruited Faculty Members.

UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar said, UGC has been giving research grants from time to time in different kinds of fellowship to enable the research ecosystem in the Universities across the country. He said, earlier UGC had formed a committee to review all these scheme and come up with more focussed on research and fellowship schemes. Mr Kumar said, following which these five schemes has been launched. 

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully demonstrated a new technology with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD). Designed and developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC),  IAD is a game-changer with multiple applications for future missions including to Mars and Venus. The IAD was successfully test flown in a 'Rohini' sounding rocket from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. Rohini sounding rockets are routinely used for flight demonstration of new technologies being developed by ISRO as well as by scientists from India and abroad. The IAD was initially folded and kept inside the payload bay of the rocket. At around 84 km altitude, the IAD was inflated and it descended through the atmosphere with the payload part of a sounding rocket. The IAD has systematically reduced the velocity of the payload through aerodynamic drag and followed the predicted trajectory. After witnessing the launch, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said, this demonstration opens a gateway for cost-effective spent stage recovery using the Inflatable Aerodynamics Decelerator technology and this IAD technology can also be used in ISRO's future missions to Venus and Mars.

On the occasion of Teacher’s day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the winners of the National Awards to Teachers 2022 at his residence in New Delhi tomorrow. The purpose of National Awards to teachers is to celebrate and honour the unique contribution of some of the finest teachers in the country who through their commitment and hard work have not only improved the quality of school education but also enriched the lives of their students. The awards accord public recognition to meritorious teachers working in elementary and secondary schools. This year, 45 teachers from across the country have been selected for the awards through a rigorous and transparent online three-stage process.

Teachers' Day is being celebrated throughout the country today. The day is celebrated on the birth anniversary of educationist and former President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

President Droupadi Murmu will confer National Awards to 46 selected teachers for the year 2022 in New Delhi today. The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education has been organising a national level function on Teachers Day every year to confer the National Awards to best teachers of the country. The selection is done through a transparent and online three stage selection process.

The purpose of National  Awards to Teachers is to celebrate the unique contribution of teachers in the country and to honour those teachers who through their commitment and industry have not only improved the quality of school education but also enriched the lives of their students.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the mascot and the anthem for the 36th National Games at Trans Stadia in Ahmedabad on Sunday evening. The mascot is named as Savaj which means cub in Gujarati. The anthem is based on the theme of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.

The National Games will be organised between 29th of this month to 12th of next month at six cities in the state namely Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar.

Addressing the gathering, the Union Home Minister said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left no stone unturned to promote sports in the country.

Five Janata Dal (United) MLAs from Manipur have formally joined BJP in the presence of party president JP Nadda in New Delhi. The JD(U) MLAs who joined the BJP are Kh Joykishan, N Sanate, Md Achab Uddin, L M Khaute and Thangjam Arunkumar.

JD-U won six seats in the  60-member State Assembly in the recently held Assembly elections while the BJP secured a majority with 32 seats.

Welcoming them into the party-fold, Mr Nadda said, all MLAs possess qualities that will greatly benefit the BJP.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated and laid the foundation stone for eight projects worth 3800 crore rupees in Mangaluru today in Karnataka. He remotely dedicated to the nation mechanised Berth No.14 for container and other cargo at the New Mangalore Port Trust.

He laid the foundation stone for the LPG and Bulk Liquid POL facility and storage tanks at the Port Authority. He also laid the foundation stone for a fishing harbour at Kulai. He remotely dedicated the BSVI Upgradation project and seawater desalination project of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited. He also distributed Pradhan Mantri Kisan Cards to fishermen and symbolically handed over sanction letters for high-speed deep sea fishing vessels.

Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr Jitendra Singh has said that the National Education Policy- 2020 will reorient India’s Education Policy as per global benchmarks.

He was addressing the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry Education Summit in New Delhi today.

Dr Singh said, National Education Policy is the biggest path-breaking reform in India since independence as the new policy is not only progressive and visionary but is also in keeping with the emerging needs and requirements of 21st century India.