World Teachers' Day is being observed globally today with the theme this year being: `Young Teachers: The Future of the Profession'. Every year UNESCO fixes a theme for the day in consonance with contemporary issues in education, particularly concerning teachers. This year also UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF,

The theme of the International Literacy Day this year is: `Literacy in a Digital World'. The decision to celebrate a day highlighting literacy was taken at the meeting of education ministers in Tehran on September 8 in 1965. The member countries of the United Nations began observing the day from 19