Tag: Children S Day

Bhubaneswar: The sixteenth edition of Anjali International Children’s Festival-2017 will commence from tomorrow on the occasion of Children’s Day at Adivasi Exhibition Ground, Unit-1 in Bhubaneswar. The festival organised by state disability information and resource centre Swabhiman will be inaugurated by Governor S C Jamir. This year the organisers have come up with a unique […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced a series of scholarships for students and also teachers during a state-level Children’s Day celebrations at Capital High School in Bhubaneswar. For the development of Odia language and encouraging students’ interest towards the language, Naveen announced Rs 5000 scholarship for 10 students of each block for scoring […]

Bhubaneswar: The BJD-led Odisha government’s plans for Children’s Day celebrations have snowballed into a controversy with BJP today accusing the ruling party of misusing taxpayers money to gain political mileage. BJP also launched a website, www.studenttips.in, for children on the eve of Children’s Day to highlight the failures of the State government in its 17 […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the State government has left no stone unturned to make the State level Children’s Day celebration a success, parents in several areas of the State rued government’s move to set two political topics for debate among students which they termed ‘politicisation’ of Children’s Day. The School and Mass Education department’s topics for […]

Bhubaneswar: Various School and State-level competitions will be organised by School and Mass Education department on November 14 to celebrate Children’s Day throughout the State. Students from Class I to V will participate in Essay, from Class VI to VIII in Poetry and from Class VIII to X in Debate competition. A district will select […]

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday celebrated Children’s Day in India with a doodle inspiring children to explore space. This year, the search engine’s theme for the day’s doodle was “What Inspires You”. A student from Mumbai, who won the 2018 Doodle 4 Google competition showed her fascination with space exploration. The doodle shows a child looking […]

Mumbai: Actor Kunal Kemmu shared the first photograph of his “munchkin” Inaaya Naumi Kemmu on the occasion of Children’s Day today. Kunal shared the image on Twitter and captioned it: “Wishing all the children everywhere and my little munchkin a very happy children’s day. May your innocence continue to inspire us to be better people […]

Berhampur: This Children’s Day will be special for 14-year-old Shubhendu Kumar Sahu as he will walk down the ramparts of Rashtrapati Bhawan before being presented with a prestigious award by President Pranab Mukherjee. Sahu, a Class VIII student of Somapur Project Upper Primary School in Ganjam district’s Hinjili, has been selected for the National Child […]

Two different cases in two different cities nearly 1150 kms apart in the recent past tell us the one bitter truth we have ignored for far too long: our school children are under great stress. In the first, a Class XI student of Ryan International School in Gurugram allegedly killed Pradhyumn Thakur, a Class II […]

By Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s rather frugal standards, this is going to be a marathon speech, lasting not less than 45 minutes. Since he would be addressing students – and more importantly their parents – of government and government aided schools across the state, one presumes he would speak (read out, to be more precise) […]

No doubt, actor-comedian Kapil Sharma and his TKSS co-star Sumona Chakravarti had a great time at Arunachal Pradesh during the recent Tawang Festival. Hosting many beautiful pictures on social media, Sumona had thanked Kapil for the amazing trip. But Kapil is Kapil and he doesn’t miss out on any opportunity to make hilarious comments at […]

New Delhi: Children’s Day may no longer be celebrated on the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, if Manoj Tiwari has his way. Just ahead of the Delhi elections which are slated for early next year, the Delhi BJP chief has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to instead mark the […]

New Delhi: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday paid tributes to the India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 131st birth anniversary, which is celebrated as the Children’s day. While paying his tributes, Naidu said that Nehru will always be remembered for his contribution […]