School Assembly News Headlines for 20 May 2025: Top national, international, sports news headlines

School Assembly News Headlines for 20 May 2025: Students participating in the school assembly news reading activity on 20 May 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 May 2025

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

• Congress calls the Supreme Court's decision to forbid the awarding of retroactive environmental clearances a "damning indictment of government."
• "Crass remarks": The Supreme Court appoints a Special Investigation Team to look into the FIR against Madhya Pradesh Minister Vijay Shah.
• Pawar advises Raut not to include politics at the local level in India's international outreach on terrorism.
• 13 Memoranda of Understanding are signed by India with the Maldives to carry out projects funded by Indian grants.
• Vikram Misri, the foreign secretary, will update the parliamentary panel on Pakistan-related matters.
• V-P's appeals on behalf of farmers are still disregarded by the Modi government: On Dhankhar's birthday, Ramesh made fun of him.
• Jaishankar will travel to Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
• The lawsuit challenging the detention of a professor from Ashoka University for posting on social media about Operation Sindoor will be heard by the  Supreme Court.
• Justice Yashwant Varma's appeal for a formal complaint has been accepted by the Supreme Court.

International News Headlines for School Assembly 20 May 2025

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

• According to Pavel Durov of Telegram, the French espionage head requested that he silence conservative Romanian voices.
• After storms kill 28 people in Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia, residents dig out from tornado damage.
• EU officials believe the EU and the UK have reached a tentative agreement before of the summit.
• 22 people are killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza, according to rescuers.
• Ishiba of Japan denies tax cuts days in the face of economic contraction.
• Afghanistan is shaken by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake.
• As a non-Sherpa guide, a British climber ascends Everest for the nineteenth time.
• In the war-torn Sudan, survivors struggle to recover from widespread sexual abuse.
• Trump phones Putin and Zelenskyy in the hopes of achieving a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.
• A bomb in Pakistan's Balochistan province left four people dead and twenty injured.
• A sizable crowd puts pressure on the Dutch government to stop Israel's murders in Gaza.

Sports News Headlines for School Assembly 20 May 2025

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

• IPL 2025: Rahul loses to Gill and Sudharsan as GT secures a postseason berth with a decisive victory.
• IPL 2025: Lefties Wadhera and Harpreet provide Kings with timely contributions against RR vs. PBKS.
• World table tennis championships: Ankur loses, Manav and Manika triumph.
• Argentina will host a four-nation competition for the junior women's hockey team.

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

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

• The Supreme Court has rejected Vodafone and Airtel's requests for AGR relief.
• The price of gold futures increased by 918 to 93,359/10gm.
• Investors in WazirX worry about more delays as the embargo is prolonged until June 6.
• Nvidia intends to market technology to improve communication between AI chips.
• Early trading saw the rupee gain 16 paise to 85.41 versus the US dollar.
• Early trading saw a market fall driven by poor Asian trends and IT equities.
• Jensen Huang of Nvidia will present the newest AI technology at Computex in Taiwan.
• Adani and Sparton collaborate to create solutions for anti-submarine warfare.
• Report: The IMF warns Pakistan about the risks to its bailout program and puts 11 new conditions on it.

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

The word of the day for today’s school assembly is “Antithetical . Antithetical typically describes something that is in direct and unambiguous opposition to another thing. It is often used with to.

Antithetical Meaning (Adjective)

Meaning: directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible

Synonym: contradictory, contrary, opposite

Antonym: analogous, noncontradictory, identical

Antithetical in a Sentence:

• The district's new policy is fundamentally antithetical to the school's values.
• The skills required to be successful are skills that are antithetical to the way most men were raised.

Thought of the Day for School Assembly 20 May 2025

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

The inspirational thought of the day for the school assembly on 20 May 2025 is by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

Meaning: The quote says that life is an experiment, and the more one experiments with new things, the more they learn. So, never give up and always try new things as it will only help in learning and growing and nothing less will come from it.

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