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Assam Rifles is assisting National Integrity Education Development Organisation (NIEDO) in providing coaching to deserving students for JEE and IIT entrance examinations. Axis Bank is providing sponsorship to the initiative of one-year residential coaching program to provide a better tomorrow to meritorious students from all over Nagaland.

The NIEDO–Assam Rifles project has been one of the major ingredients in shaping the professional life of most of the Naga boys and girls from economically backward families by providing them an opportunity to avail quality education. It also offers counseling, thus helping the students not only to prepare for competitive examinations but also to become good citizens.

Assam Rifles, Axis Bank, and NIEDO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in May 2022 for the establishment of the "Late Capt N Kengurüse, Mahavir Vir Chakra (MVC) Centre of Excellence and Wellness" at Chieswema, Kohima. Capt Kengurüse of 2 Rajputana Rifles, a native of Nagaland from the Kohima district, made the ultimate sacrifice in the Kargil War when he single-handedly destroyed an well-entrenched medium machine gun bunker. He was posthumously awarded India's second-highest gallantry award for the act of supreme valour.

The institute prepares students for extremely competitive exams such as NEET and JEE. The project has been initiated in 2022 by inducting 30 talented students from the entire Nagaland. The applicants underwent a highly rigorous testing procedure to pick the crème de la crème. The project has been established as a one-year, fully residential coaching and mentoring institute for NEET and JEE exams. Experienced and trained teaching faculty members of NIEDO impart the syllabus, and quality education is delivered. The collaborative effort of NIEDO and Assam Rifles has greatly benefited the people of Nagaland, especially the youth. Following the success of Chieswema centre, Assam Rifles and NIEDO have expanded their efforts to other locations. In August 2024, the same effort was expanded to Ghaspani (Medziphema) with the inauguration of Subedar PB Chhetri, Kirti Chakra Centre of Excellence.

Subedar Chhetri of 7 Assam Rifles received India's second-highest civilian award for leading his troops during an anti-terror operation in J&K at 14,000 feet. During the operation, 72 of the well-trained terrorists, who had come back to J&K after being trained in ISI-funded camps in PoJK, were eliminated and 13 others were arrested.

As Kashmir Valley sweats off due to a severe heatwave, school authorities have done their bit well to spare teachers and students from the heat. School timings in the valley, from May 26, will be changed to begin early in the morning with the objective of avoiding the heat in the afternoon.

It has been instructed, at the behest of the Directorate of School Education, Kashmir (DSEK), that schools in the municipal corporation zone of Srinagar will open from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM. For schools located in zones where there is no municipal corporation, the timings have been set 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The instruction has been issued for all government and government-recommended private schools with strict orders to implement the new timetables.

The heat follows Srinagar recording a sizzling 34.4°C Thursday—close to nine degrees higher than normal seasonal—a near-record high day in one of the nation's hottest-ever temperatures, which otherwise has seen more temperate summers.

"We have never experienced so much heat in May," said Shabir Ahmad, a parent who resides in Srinagar city center. "It is a wise decision to change school timings. Children cannot learn in ovens-like classrooms." said People and concerned parents

Although the remaining part of India is already in the middle of summer vacations, Kashmir Valley also has a definite conventional academic calendar. The states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu already started their summer vacation as per the climate that dominated these states.

Since, Delhi schools are closed from May 11 to June 30, and Uttar Pradesh schools have their holiday season from May 20 to June 15. School-going kids in Madhya Pradesh receive holidays from May 1 to June 15.

As temperatures across the world increase and climatic change makes its presence felt, shifting the timings of schools may be the new norm and not the exception even for regions such as Kashmir, where heatwaves were once an exception and not the rule.

Since times are evolving, our methodology too evolves accordingly—much more so when it is still in its nascent phase. How to play has been the primary mantra of modern learning in primary schools, mapping a child's journey to school, to life, and to emotional quotient. Other schools on other continents are following suit, realizing that play isn't solely for fun—its a valuable means in which young children can learn. Starting in pre-kindergarten right up to senior kindergarten, the curriculum has been strategically planned in hopes of making it so. In environments like the Common Ground Collaborative, children are assisted in asking questions, investigating, and making sense of the world. It is an open-ended, child-centered practice which encourages curiosity and sharpens the skill required in order to learn lifelong. Play-based learning assumes a crucial importance in Elementary Education

Those formative school years are becoming the entire childhood existence of a child. Early grade school years, though, are gaining much more than books. It's a time of engaging curiosity, forming friendships, and establishing emotional development. Reading, writing, and math skills are required, but so is play. Play makes children imaginative creatures, smart, and social-conditioned characteristics that enable them to be thinking, confident, and collaborative friends.

Relevance of Inquiry-Based Model

Inquiry-based model of learning combined with play-based and conventional models of learning provokes students to pose the question, extend beyond what is included in the textbook, and this sparks life-long curiosity of learning.

The model is brought in a very initial segment of the child's school life, which establishes a solid foundation that could extend elevated levels of learning to high school years. Knowing the 'why' before the 'what' at an early age will allow a child to survive tough subjects and subjects in primary school and throughout their life. Play is also essential to social competence and emotional intelligence in children.

Play cooperatively is also how kids are instructed in good sharing, turn-taking, conflict resolution, and cooperation.

These are life skills that prepare students to be a more respectful and considerate classmate. It also gives students the minimum competence to be an empathetic global citizen. Social and emotional learning is offered in order to enable students to build resilience, empathy, and self-regulation. School counselors and teachers assist the students in learning emotional skills that enable them to cope with adversity in school and life. Why Experiential Learning Matters It is a wonderful idea to have an emphasis on experiential learning.

Discovery and play do not necessarily take place at school—spill out into the big wide world.

When kids are getting their hands dirty with learning such as field trips or project-based learning, it's more tangible and lasting. They can see how what they're learning connects to the real world, and learning becomes interesting with real interest. When they know how to apply it in life, they're not only more interested—but also more open to learning even more. Aside from inquiry-based approaches, students are also open to all kinds of specialist classes. Music, art, and PE are just a few of the core subjects in primary school. These are created to develop the vehicle of autonomous child creativity, establishing their motor skills, and on-going learning in the arts. It will not then be an off-the-question assumption that play is included in being an adult. It shapes human beings and makes the students view life realistically at an early stage in life. It makes them competent enough to recognize the difficulties of the outside world and its intricacies. Theory-based learning would never render the children vulnerable to complexity in institution protocols, industry processes, and in life. Blending best practice with theory provides the students with a strong platform of life.

Following the announcement of special orientation classes for higher secondary students on diverse socially relevant issues at the onset of the new academic year, the general education department has organized similar sessions for students ranging from lower primary to high-school level.

The June 3 to 13 orientation programme will include topics such as road safety, body hygiene, health and physical fitness, discipline in the use of digital devices, safeguarding public property and mutual help. An hour each day will be devoted to these sessions, General Education Minister V Sivankutty informed the media here on Wednesday.

"For better recall of what children have learned in the last academic year, equivalent experiences need to be provided for them to help them transition into new textbooks after the summer break in a smooth manner. Appropriate interventions need to be made to fill up learning gaps," Sivankutty said.

Such bridging programs at the start of the academic year must also involve social values inculcation, he said.  The school learning resource groups have been instructed to develop the module for every class in a manner that it is seen as an organic learning process for students.

The Assistant Educational Officers and District Educational Officers have been instructed to organize the activity. While Block Resource Centres and district institutes of education and training will provide academic assistance, the SCERT will do the job of preparing the material.

The orientation programs will guarantee the engagement of all the students belonging to Classes II to X. In the process of developing the modules, school resource groups have been advised to make them suitable to the respective age groups of the students.

The general education department has also published a schedule detailing the subject that needs to be tackled on a specific day for every section of students. Previously, the minister had declared a six-hour-long orientation process, distributed across two weeks during the onset of the new academic year, for Plus-II students.

Thousands of Odisha students now wait to celebrate. Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) will announce the results of Class 12 board exams on Friday, May 21, 2025, at 4 PM. Students who cleared Arts, Science, Commerce, and Vocational streams in the first half of this year wait with hope in their hearts.

Class 12 exam was conducted from Feb 18 to March 27 at 148 centers of the state. The job was huge with over 16,000 teachers combining to conduct the exam without any hassle.

Access CHSE Odisha Class 12 Results via any of the following given modes:

Official Websites:

Visit chseodisha.nic.in or orissaresults.nic.in

Enter roll number and registration number to view and download your marksheet.

Via SMS

Send RESULT FOR12 to 56263 and see your score on your mobile. 

DigiLocker:

Students enrolled on DigiLocker can also download online marksheet here.

Online Marksheet Will Show

The marksheet will show:

Student name and roll number

Stream (Arts/Science/Commerce/Vocational)

Marks subject-wise

Total marks and division

Pass/fail result

Students should note that it is an online temporary result. Hardcopy marksheets and certificates will be sent by your school within one week or two.

In the event of any discrepancy or mistake in your online result, please do not hesitate to inform your school administration at the earliest. For technical assistance in accessing the result, students may approach Common Service Centres (CSCs), nearby cyber cafes, or school-based help centres.

In 2024, the result was announced on May 26 and in 2023 on May 31. In 2023, the total pass percentage was 78.88%, whereas in 2024 Science was 86.93%, Commerce was 82.27%, and Arts was 80.95%.

Only 400 of the 1,800 students reported to school at Christ School on the LoC on Monday. (Express photo by Aiswarya Raj)

It is not a good morning; not for our school, not for Poonch," starts Fr. Shijo Kanjirathingal, principal of Christ School, Poonch, as he takes over the thinly gathered morning assembly — the first since the school reopened on Monday after last week's shelling by Pakistan that killed at least 13 civilians and injured 60 in Poonch.

Three students of the school are among those killed: Urwa Fatima and her twin brother Zain Ali of Class 5, and Class 8 student Vihaan Bhargav. "This ground belongs to them and they were meant to be here," continues the principal.

Heads bowed, tears in some faces, the assembly breaks up after a prayer of silence.

Established in 1990, the school caters to 1,200 students from pre-school to Class 12. On this day, hardly 300 have arrived. Scars from shelling all over the campus — broken glass panes and a hit eucalyptus tree — attest to the horror experienced by the residents of this violence-scarred land.

When shelling began early on May 7, the school cancelled all classes, but its basement was used as a bunker for families in the area.

"We have one more school, Christ School, Degwar, which is only 3 km short of the Line of Control. We felt that school was particularly exposed and were concerned about them, but to our surprise, we got hit. Poonch town has never been so shelled before," alleges Fr Kanjirathingal.

In one of the junior wing classrooms, 24-year veteran teacher Amrit Kaur explains that most of the children haven't reported for classes, so they have been forced to merge children from two sections. "They are too young to comprehend what's going on, but we have requested them to come forward if they wish to speak.". I informed them they must be courageous because they are kids on the front lines," says Kaur. Behind her, the door was partially torn apart — the result of a splinter.

In the school's senior wing, Ranjeet Kaur, class teacher of 8A, weeps quietly. On May 7, her student Vihaan Bhargav was travelling from Poonch to Jammu with his family when shrapnel struck them. Bhargav was seated between his parents, in the front seat of their vehicle. His cousin, Rajvansh Singh, who is a Class 7 student at Christ School, Degwar, and was in the same vehicle, was badly injured.

Vihaan joined our school only last month. I had shifted him to the front bench after his parents requested me to pay special attention to him. I simply did not wish to attend school today. You see a child daily, and then he is no longer there. I asked my students to move into another room; I was not able to set foot in the room without Vihaan," she tells us.

Shells of last week that also fell on Christ School, Poonch (Express/Aiswarya Raj)

About 6 km away, at the Degwar campus of the school, principal Fr Liju explains that the school intends to hire a counsellor for the students. "Until 2019, there used to be ceasefire violations along the border, and we would have to return the students to their homes. But since then, things have been peaceful.I went around the campus this morning and instructed the staff to keep an eye out for unexploded shells," he says.

On Monday, the school did not hold the morning assembly. "Only 400 students have reported today. We did not want to push anyone," he explains. The 1,800-student CBSE school was established in 2014.

On the school verandah, Class 7 pupil Puneet Pal Singh is being questioned by his teachers about whether he has spoken to his best friend Rajvansh Singh, who was injured when a shell exploded on the roof of his house on May 7. Puneet and Rajvansh, who were classmates from their kindergarten days, would play cricket whenever they got an opportunity, according to the teachers.

I phoned Puneet's mother on May 7, but she didn't pick up. I kept calling. Then she answered and said he is in a hospital in Amritsar. Three days ago, we talked again, and the doctors were thinking of amputating. I have been praying since then," says Puneet.