Here are the top School Assembly News Headlines for Today, August 25: These updates cover National, International, Sports, and Business news to help students stay informed and confident while presenting in their school morning assembly.
National News
The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday that it had received documents from 98.2 per cent of electors listed in Bihar’s draft rolls as part of the second phase of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
India has “successfully” conducted the maiden flight tests of an integrated air defence weapon system (IADWS) off the coast of Odisha. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the developer of the platform, and the armed forces on the flight tests.
Business News
The 56th meeting of the GST Council will be held for two days beginning September 3. A meeting notice was issued by GST Council and signed by Revenue Secretary Arvind Shrivastava, who is the ex-officio secretary of the Council.
Sports News
Animesh Kujur becomes first-ever Indian male sprinter to qualify to run Tokyo World Athletics Championships. The 22- year-old from Chhattisgarh clocked 20.63s to improve his ranking further in the Road.
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The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) honoured former India captain Sunil Gavaskar by unveiling a statue in his likeness and also displayed former Indian board and MCA president Sharad Pawar’s newly-crafted statue.
Education News
From carrying rockets on bicycles and bullock carts in the 1960s to landmark space missions like Chandrayaan and Gaganyaan, India’s rise among the global space powers is now part of NCERT’s special modules. Two modules titled ‘India: A rising space power’ highlights how the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR), set up in 1962 under Vikram Sarabhai, grew into the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which went on to script achievements that have placed India among the leading spacefaring nations.
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They also talk about the upcoming NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)-ISRO NISAR satellite, which will offer high-resolution data on Earth’s ecosystems, ice cover, and natural disasters by surveying the world once every 12 days. ( Representative Image: AI generated Sora)
World News
A new study by the Pew Research Center has shown that the immigrant population of the United States, which had been growing for the last 50 years, has fallen by over a million people after President Donald Trump took office in January for his second tenure and his administration defined illegal immigration as a threat to the nation with severe crackdown against it.
