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THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF YOGA IN MODERN LIFE / by Riya Sharma / In an age dominated by long screen hours short tempers and shorter sleep yoga has quietly become one of India's most powerful gifts to the world. Once seen as an austere discipline practised in distant ashrams it is now taught in offices schools hospitals and even airports. / The reasons are not mysterious. Yoga combines slow movement deliberate breathing and quiet attention - three things modern life rarely offers. Studies show that even twenty minutes of daily practice lowers stress hormones improves sleep and sharpens concentration. For students in particular yoga calms exam-time nerves and improves the steady focus that long-form reading and complex problem-solving demand. / What makes yoga special is its simplicity. It needs no equipment no special clothing and no expensive subscription. A clean mat a quiet corner and twenty minutes are enough. / On International Yoga Day the world gathers to acknowledge this. The truth is we should not need a single day. We need the daily habit. Our minds and bodies will thank us.

ANNUAL SPORTS DAY HELD WITH GRAND ENTHUSIASM AT MODERN PUBLIC SCHOOL / by Aanya Verma Pune 22 May 2026 / The 32nd Annual Sports Day of Modern Public School Pune was held on 21 May 2026 in the school grounds with much enthusiasm and zeal. Over 800 students from classes V to XII participated across 28 athletic and team events. / The chief guest Padma Shri Smt Anju Bobby George former Olympic long jump finalist hoisted the school flag and addressed the gathering urging students to make sport an everyday habit. The march-past was led by the four Houses - Ashoka Akbar Ranjit and Tagore - in their bright uniforms. The 100m sprint the 400m relay the high jump and the inter-house tug-of-war drew the loudest cheers from the audience. / Tagore House lifted the overall championship trophy with 348 points followed by Ashoka with 312. The Best Athlete Boy and Best Athlete Girl awards went to Aditya Patil (Class XII) and Sneha Naik (Class X) respectively. The Principal Mrs Nair thanked the chief guest the staff and the students for a day of true sporting spirit.

THE NEED FOR READING HABITS IN THE DIGITAL AGE / by Aman Mehta / In an age of vertical videos and ten-second attention spans the quiet act of reading a book has become quietly revolutionary. Surveys show that the average urban teenager today reads only four books a year - half of what was reported a decade ago. The decline mirrors the rise of the smartphone. / Reading is not a luxury. It is how the human brain builds sustained attention deep empathy and complex reasoning - capacities that fragmented digital consumption simply cannot develop. When we read a novel we inhabit minds different from our own. When we read history we learn to spot patterns across decades. When we read an essay we hold multiple ideas in tension. None of this is exercised by a viral reel. / The remedy is not to ban screens. It is to deliberately cultivate reading. Set aside thirty unhurried minutes a day. Visit a library on weekends. Read together as a family. The slow unfashionable art of turning pages remains one of the most powerful skills our generation can hold on to. / Let us not let it slip away.

ECO CLUB PLANTS 250 SAPLINGS AT DEER PARK / by Priya Bhatt New Delhi 6 June 2026 / The Eco Club of Delhi Public School R K Puram organised a tree-plantation drive on the morning of 5 June 2026 (World Environment Day) at Deer Park Hauz Khas. Over 120 student volunteers staff members and parents participated and planted 250 saplings of native species including neem peepal amaltas and Indian almond. / The drive was inaugurated by Mr Arvind Krishan Director of the Delhi Forest Department who spoke about the importance of restoring native green cover in the city. The saplings were donated by the Delhi Greens Foundation and the planting site was identified in coordination with the Delhi Development Authority. / Volunteers were divided into teams of six with each team responsible for digging the pit planting tagging and watering the sapling. Each tagged sapling will be monitored by student volunteers for the next twelve months. / The Principal Mrs Anjali Suri thanked all participants and announced that the school will continue to plant 100 saplings every quarter. The day ended with refreshments and group photographs.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME MANAGEMENT FOR STUDENTS / by Aditya Sharma / Ask any senior student what they wish they had more of and the answer is almost always the same - time. Yet a closer look usually shows that the problem is not the absence of time but the absence of structure. Time management is the quiet skill that separates students who thrive from students who merely survive. / Good time management begins with awareness. For one week record what each hour of the day was actually spent on. Most students discover that they lose two to three hours daily to scrolling notifications and unplanned breaks. / Then come the small habits. Make a daily three-task list of must-do items. Use a fixed study window of 45-50 minutes followed by short breaks. Leave heavy screen-use for the end of the day. Sleep at the same hour every night. Plan the next day before going to bed. / None of this is glamorous. None of it is easy. But these tiny habits compounded over months build the kind of student no last-minute exam stress can shake. Time well managed is a quiet superpower.

NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPUTER LAB INAUGURATED AT GREEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL / by Karan Reddy Hyderabad 15 May 2026 / A new state-of-the-art computer lab was inaugurated at Green Valley High School Hyderabad on the morning of 14 May 2026. The chief guest for the occasion was Mr Ramesh Naidu the District Education Officer who cut the ribbon and addressed the gathering. / The new lab houses 60 latest-generation desktop computers a smart-board high-speed broadband and an in-built audio-visual studio. The total investment of Rs 24 lakh was supported by an alumni-led fundraising initiative and a grant from the state CSR programme. The Principal Mr Joshua Mathew expressed gratitude to the alumni council and the donors. / Mr Naidu in his address noted that digital literacy is now as fundamental as reading and arithmetic and urged students to combine these new tools with traditional disciplines of focus and perseverance. He also announced that an inter-school coding competition will be held in the coming term. / Students of all classes will have rotating access to the lab from the first week of June and an after-school robotics club will begin its first cohort in July.