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A group of 17 students from Hyderabad, aged between 12 and 15 years, have come up with a flight- ready CubeSat payload, a product of their design and fabrication. This payload will be sent into space on an ISRO mission slated for January 12 at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC, SHAR), Sriharikota.

Giving their payload a very creative and cool name, the students of Blue Blocks Montessori School project this as SBB, 1 (Satellite Blue Blocks, 1), and it has been officially sanctioned by ISRO to be onboard its PSLV, C62 mission.

Indeed, the difference is stark when compared to the usual school level STEM projects. The students have, of course, been able to do everything from scratch, i.e., designing, assembling, and coding the CubeSat payload all by themselves. They used commercial off- the shelf sensors, carried out soldering of the components, and wrote firmware to transmit real time telemetry. Although a couple of scientists from Take Me 2 Space were around to provide the students with some guidance, the students did all the engineering work completely themselves.

"The hardest part was figuring out the sensors that wouldn't talk to each other, " said one of the students. "We didn't just want to go and watch the launch; we wanted to be part of the rocket."

The project was conducted at the Blue Blocks Micro Research Institute, guided by a framework "Structural Autonomy, " which supports problem, solving with very little adult supervision. Co-founder Pavan Goyal said, "They are not future engineers. They are flight-ready engineers today."

The initiative by Blue Blocks has received international recognition. The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo has invited co-founder Pavan Goyal to present the methodology, and the students will also deliver a technical review at the AMI Conference in Mexico.

About the PSLV-C62 Mission 

The PSLV-C62 mission will launch the EOS-N1 Earth observation satellite along with 15 co-passenger satellites from India and abroad. It will also demonstrate the Kestrel Initial Technology Demonstrator (KID), a small prototype re-entry vehicle developed by a Spanish startup.  

PSLV is ISRO's trusted workhorse rocket, having successfully completed 63 flights - including landmark missions such as Chandrayaan-1, Mars Orbiter Mission, Aditya-L1, and Astrosat - and holds the record for launching 104 satellites in a single mission in 2017.

In order to give children in the state's oriental schools the chance to learn Malayalam as their mother tongue in addition to Sanskrit and Arabic, the Kerala government launched the "Malayalashree" project on Tuesday.

Minister for General Education and Labour V Sivankutty launched the project, claiming that denying children the opportunity to study their mother tongue would be tantamount to severing them from their own homeland and culture.

He claimed that even though the project had been approved by the government in 2011, it had not yet been fully realized.

With the launch of ‘Malayalashree’, students of 38 oriental schools functioning across nine districts in Kerala will be able to study Malayalam, an official statement said quoting him.

The syllabus has been prepared under the leadership of the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), based on equivalency textbooks of the Literacy Mission, it said.

Public examinations will be conducted in the current academic year itself for Classes 7 and 10.

He stated that 2,105 pupils from Class 7 and 2,445 students from Class 10 are anticipated to show up for the exams.

The statement also stated that the Pareeksha Bhavan here will administer the Class 10 exam, while the Literacy Mission will administer the Class 7 exam.

Oriental schools are state-run or aided schools focusing on learning in Sanskrit, Arabic and so on.

In order to improve student learning outcomes and support classroom instruction, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has requested that its affiliated schools actively utilize PM eVidya's CBSE Channel 15. A circular dated January 7, 2026, included the directive.

CBSE has been given Channel 15 on the DTH platform as part of the PM eVidya program, which presently offers 67 carefully chosen instructional videos. These materials are mostly intended for students in Classes 9 through 11, but they also contain information meant to improve teachers' pedagogical abilities.

The PM eVidya project, which was introduced in 2024, provides academic assistance via 200 specialized television channels.

CBSE Channel 15 provides curriculum encompassing fundamental subjects including math, science, and social science in addition to modules on experiential learning, storytelling as a teaching tool, assessment techniques, cyber safety, and the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

By ensuring that all students, regardless of socioeconomic level, have access to top-notch educational resources, the program seeks to close learning disparities, according to CBSE. Teachers can incorporate the videos into lesson plans and classroom activities, and students can learn at their own pace owing to YouTube's on-demand access and repeated broadcasts.

The Board noted that the e-videos have been developed by subject experts and adhere to national standards for educational television programming. To widen reach, all content is also available on the CBSE TV Channel on YouTube.

As stated in an earlier circular published in June 2024, school principals and heads have been directed to make sure that the necessary infrastructure is in place. Additionally, they have been urged to educate educators and learners on the use of digital content for remedial learning, enrichment, and revision.

Additionally, CBSE has invited experienced educators and academic resource persons to contribute to the creation of more high-quality educational videos by collaborating with its designated Centres of Excellence.

Maharashtra's Kalyan civic authorities served notice on a private school following complaints that it was denying students the right to wear religious or cultural symbols, an official stated on Wednesday.

The issue cropped up after parents complained that children were not allowed to wear 'tilak' or 'tikli' (bindi), bangles, or religious threads such as rakhi.

Parents reported that some students had their 'tilaks' wiped off and were threatened with punishment. Some were even physically beaten.

Local party workers grievanced to the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation's (KDMC) education department. The department, in turn, sent a notice to the school on Tuesday, asking for explanations about the alleged restrictive policies and acts of punishment.

"Immediately after the complaint was made by the parents, the department took action and sent a notice to the school. We hope that the problem will be solved soon. There is no use dragging the issue any further. The issue will be settled between the parents and the school administration amicably," the official added.

School officials, in a statement, came to the defense of its policies while reaffirming its commitment to secularism, quality education, and student security.

"The school has never issued any fatwa," it said, citing that the institution gives "prime importance to the security of the students".

The school always strives to maintain "harmony between the school, students, parents, teachers and management," it added further.

The celebration of Navaratri, Durga Puja has begun, and schools in the eastern India- West Bengal, Assam, Odisha, Bihar have declared holidays for schools, colleges.

The festive season has arrived and in order to rejoice schools will remain closed state-wise for students. The celebration of Navaratri, Durga Puja has already begun, and schools in the eastern region of India- West Bengal, Assam, Odisha, Bihar have declared holidays for educational institutions- schools, colleges. West Bengal government has already declared school holiday on the occasion of Durga Puja. School holiday in West Bengal began from September 24.

Schools closure list state-wise due to Navaratri, Durga Puja

West Bengal: West Bengal's Durga Puja school holidays began on September 24. The West Bengal schools will remain closed until Monday, October 6. School holidays differ, though, from the government institutions to private ones.

Bihar: In Bihar, the schools will remain shut from September 27 on the festival of Navaratri and Durga Puja. The schools remain shut from September 27 to October 2, but in some districts of Bihar, the schools will remain closed up to October 5.

Odisha: The Odisha schools will be closed from September 29 (Maha Saptami). The schools will remain shut up to October 2 (Vijaya Dashami / Dussehra).

Assam: The Navaratri and Durga Puja school holidays in Assam are on September 29 and 30, 2025. The schools will also be closed on Dussehra and Gandhi Jayanti on October 2.

Jharkhand: The schools of Dhanbad will remain closed from September 27 to October 5. The government schools have declared four days off; the schools will remain closed from September 29 to October 2,

Whereas CISCE schools will have a holiday from September 27 to October 2.

Dussehra School Holiday

The schools across India will remain shut on October 2 in order to celebrate Dussehra. Also October 2 (Gandhi Jayanti) is a national holiday in India to mark the birthday anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

A teacher shaved a student's hair off as punishment for failing to apply oil over it. The teacher was fired after the complaint was filed.

The incident occurred at the Swaminarayan Gurukul School of Jamnagar on Tuesday morning when the accused teacher used a blade to shave off the girl student's hair. The accused mentioned that she did not use hair oil.

After the incident, her parents registered a written complaint to the District Education Officer, and it led to official action from the Education Department.

The institution has a history of being in the news, and the most recent incident brought back to center stage campus disciplinary action.

The mother of the student, Anjaliben Gandha, accused the entire school culture of punishment. "The children get punished at school for such small things. Even if the child has forgotten a book, 100 sit-ups is what they give them as punishment. Our children are so afraid that they recall the school by name alone," she complained.

A comparable complaint was similarly filed from Navanagar Government High School, in which one teacher was reportedly accused of shaving a student's hair for the same reasons.

Shashiben Das, Education Director at Swaminarayan Gurukul, also confirmed the firing. "I was jobless when we dismissed the school. The principal came to notify me of this. We do not permit our kids to have long hair, and if they do not trim their hair, we even warn parents. But this was not so. Shortened the child's hair had the physical education teacher done, and that is why we dismissed him. We called a sit-down meeting with all the other workers and everybody was made aware of this."

District Education Officer Vipul Mehta stated, "Today, two schools in Jamnagar have filed a complaint, both of which are parents of students. In both of them, the complaint is that hair of children has been shaved. Orders have been given so that nothing like this ever happens in other schools, and teachers of both schools have been taken action against."

Both show-cause notices and investigations were launched by the Education Department.