School Assembly News Headlines for 20 March 2025: Top Stories, National, International, Sports

School Assembly News Headlines for 20 March 2025: Students participating in the school assembly news reading activity on 20 March can check the list of top national, international and sports news headlines here. Students can also check 'Word of the Day' and 'Thought of the Day' along with the news headlines here. 

National News Headlines for School Assembly 20 March 2025

Here are the top national news headlines for the school assembly 20 March 2025 –

• Considerable progress in combating online gambling and betting activities: Vaishnaw.
• In a defamation lawsuit, the Supreme Court extends its judgment and exempts Shivraj Singh Chouhan from making personal appearances.
• Petitioners argue that the dispute goes right to the core of democracy, and the Supreme Court has postponed the challenge to the new CEC/EC  nominations law until April 16.
• The prime minister of New Zealand says he is eager to sign an FTA with India within 60 days.
• Returning to Earth from her ancestral Gujarati village over the moon is Sunita Williams.
• On May 20, trade unions will go on strike in protest of labour laws.
• Amidst loud opposition, the Lok Sabha passed the Railways Demand for Grants (2025–26).
• Judges from the Supreme Court will visit the relief camps in Manipur on March 22.
• Congress leaders discuss how to make district committees stronger.
• Agreement to train a domestic AI model using data from Parliament: Ashwini Vaishnaw

International News Headlines for School Assembly 20 March 2025

Here are the top international news headlines for the school assembly 20 March 2025 –

• A major Erdogan opponent, Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu, is detained by Turkish authorities on suspicion of having ties to terrorism and corruption.
• Families of Russian evacuees from Kursk are reunited.
• The Polish Deputy Foreign Minister says the Modi-Putin friendship "may be helpful" in bringing an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
• Areas in Yemen are targeted by U.S. strikes, according to Houthi propaganda.
• Universities around the United States are alarmed by the way the Trump administration has treated Columbia.
• Following the Putin-Trump call, Russia and Ukraine exchanged claims of infrastructure strikes.
• A judge prevents the cancellation of $14 billion in "green bank" grants by the Trump administration.
• In an attempt to gain more authority over tech regulators, Trump dismisses two Democrats from the Federal Trade Commission.
• The head of Pakistan's army demands that the nation become a "hard state" to combat terrorism.

Sports News Headlines for School Assembly 20 March 2025

Here are the top sports news headlines for the school assembly on 20 March 2025 –

• The Serie A commercial director says India may host the Italian Super Cup.
• This IPL, Shreyas Iyer hopes to "mark" himself at number three.
• Knight Riders have the poise and class to do an encore in the IPL 2025 countdown.
• As India plays the Maldives in a friendly, all eyes will be on Chhetri.
• Joshna Chinappa claims that coaching is much more stressful than playing.
• Iga Swiatek talks about how she almost hit a ball kid last year and how she cried every day for three weeks.
• IPL2025: Because of security concerns, the KKR vs. LSG match will be rescheduled.

Business and Start-Ups News Headlines for School Assembly 20 March 2025

Here are the top business news headlines for the school assembly 20 March 2025 –

• The Commerce Ministry suggests imposing a 200-day 12% safeguard duty on specific steel items.
• Uber Shuttle opens in Hyderabad and provides free transportation to Hitec City.
• Before the investor vote on the restructuring plan, WaxirX reports token assets totalling $478.5 million.
• In early trading, the rupee drops 10 paise to 86.66 versus the US dollar.
• At GTC 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduces new Rubin AI chips.
• Moody's is considering downgrading IndusInd Bank's Baseline Credit Assessment.
• Financial, banking, and auto stocks all saw a 1.5% increase in indexes.

Word of the Day for School Assembly 20 March 2025 with Meaning

The word of the day for today’s school assembly is “consortium". Consortium is a fancy word for a group you form for an enterprise beyond what any one member could do alone.

Consortium Meaning (Noun)

Meaning: an association, typically of several companies.

Synonym: consolidation, merger, partnership

Antonym: division, parting, separation

Consortium in a Sentence: 

• This consortium is working to develop new low-cost electronic devices derived from organic semiconductors.
• All the grocery stores in your neighbourhood might form a consortium for the promotion of local strawberries.

Thought of the Day for School Assembly 20 March 2025

Students note down the thought of the day for the school assembly 20 March 2025 as mentioned in the table below:

The inspirational thought of the day for the school assembly on 20 March  2025 is by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. 

Meaning: This quotation perfectly captures the idea that any kind of progress or growth requires an openness to change. We become stagnant when we are unable to change our viewpoints, convictions, or thought patterns, which impedes not only our own development but also our capacity to effect significant change in the world.

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