Dhai Akhar: All India Letter Writing Competition by India Post

Dhai Akhar National Level Letter Writing Campaign 2025

The Dhai Akhar National Level Letter Writing Competition 2025–26 is a nationwide initiative that highlights the timeless charm of handwritten communication. Organised annually, the competition invites individuals from across India to express their ideas, emotions, and perspectives through the art of letter writing.

In an era dominated by digital communication, Dhai Akhar encourages participants to slow down, reflect, and find their voice through words written on paper. The campaign underscores the continuing importance of handwriting in nurturing creativity, critical thinking, and emotional expression, particularly among young learners.

Theme

The theme for this year is “Letter to My Role Model”, offering participants the opportunity to pay thoughtful tribute to individuals who inspire them and shape their aspirations. The competition is open to citizens of all ages and can be written in English, Hindi, or any regional language. Entries can be submitted in two categories based on age group and format, ensuring inclusivity for both young writers and adults.

Categories

The Dhai Akhar National Level Letter Writing Competition is open to all citizens of India and is divided into two age groups, each with two formats:

1. Up to 18 years

• Inland Letter Card category

• Envelope category

2. Above 18 years

• Inland Letter Card category

• Envelope category

Participants must write a handwritten letter on the given theme, in English, Hindi, or any regional language, using either A4 paper (max 1000 words) or an Inland Letter Card (max 500 words). Typed entries are not allowed.

Prizes

Winners receive cash awards at both Circle Level and National Level in each category. 

Circle Level Prizes

• 1st Prize: ₹25,000

• 2nd Prize: ₹10,000

• 3rd Prize: ₹5,000

National Level Prizes

• 1st Prize: ₹50,000

• 2nd Prize: ₹25,000

• 3rd Prize: ₹10,000

There are four categories, so prizes are awarded separately in each category. 

How to Submit

Participants must send a handwritten letter addressed to the Chief Postmaster General concerned, using permitted stationery—either an Inland Letter Card or an envelope with stamp affixed for a regular A4 sheet.

For more information, click here

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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is now accepting submissions for its 2024 edition, with the deadline set for 1 November 2024. This prestigious prize is awarded annually to the best piece of unpublished short fiction, and it is free to enter. Writers aged 18 and over from any Commonwealth country are invited to submit their stories.

About the Prize

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open to unpublished short stories between 2,000 and 5,000 words. The prize covers all fiction genres, including science fiction, speculative fiction, historical fiction, crime, romance, and literary fiction. Writers have the freedom to explore any subject matter.

Submissions are accepted in the following languages:

• Bengali
• Chinese
• Creole
• English
• French
• Greek
• Malay
• Maltese
• Portuguese
• Samoan
• Swahili
• Tamil
• Turkish

Translated stories are also eligible, and if a winning story is a translation, the translator will receive an additional prize of £750.

Prizes

• Overall Winner: £5,000
• Regional Winners: £2,500 (for winners from Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific)
• Translator Prize: £750 (if applicable)

The five regional winning stories will be published in Granta, an acclaimed literary magazine, and featured in a special print collection by Paper + Ink. Additionally, the shortlisted stories will be published in adda, the online literary magazine of the Commonwealth Foundation.

Key Dates

• Submissions Open: 1 September 2024
• Submission Deadline: 1 November 2024
• Shortlist Announcement: April 2025
• Regional Winners Announcement: May 2025
• Award Ceremony and Overall Winner Announcement: June 2025

Judging Process

An international judging panel will review all submissions. The panel will create a shortlist of approximately twenty stories, from which five regional winners will be chosen. One of these regional winners will be named the overall winner.

Eligibility and Entry Guidelines

• Writers must be citizens of a Commonwealth country or stateless persons currently residing in a Commonwealth country.
• Stories must be original, unpublished, and must not have been previously submitted to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
• Entries must be submitted via the online entry form by 1 November 2024 (11:59 PM in any time zone).

For more details on eligibility, entry guidelines, and how to submit your story, visit the official Commonwealth Short Story Prize page. This is a unique opportunity to share your work on a global stage and gain recognition for your writing.

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Objective: To unearth disruptive ideas and concepts in emerging technologies identified by DRDO for enhancing defence capabilities.

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The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge is a global competition that encourages students to design products and services to improve well-being across the lifespan. In its tenth year, the Challenge is focused on the optimization of health span – the period of life spent in good health, free from chronic diseases and disabilities.

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You and your teammates will engage in a contest with competing institutions from all over the globe. Your job is to address challenges like creating an employee experience that attracts millennials while retaining all other generations of employees; or reducing the gap between the speed of business and the typical speed of real estate.

 Budding professionals welcome! CoreNet is seeking your ingenuity and creativity. The competition is open to all students (undergraduate/graduate, full-time/part-time) who are currently registered at a recognized university.

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“The Fentress Global Challenge is a great opportunity for young designers to bring broad ideas and creative perspectives to the table while spearheading innovation in airport terminal architecture,” said FGC Founder Curtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA. “We are excited to see how students push the limits of architectural design this year.”

This year’s competition brief encourages students to reimagine the terminal building in the year 2100, siting the new terminal at either an existing airport of their choosing, or at a location where an airport does not yet exist. The latter option calls for participants to consider a city where an airport could serve as a catalyst for economic and social development. Students’ designs must consider several aspects, including local context, evolving technologies, sustainability and resiliency, security, wellbeing, mobility, urbanization, globalization, project feasibility, and the overall passenger experience.

The First Place Winner will receive $15,000 USD—the largest prize in FGC’s history. Four additional winners will receive smaller cash prizes.

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Since 2013, the worldwide design competition has served as a platform for emerging designers and creators whose works can lead to a better future

Design for a Better Tomorrow

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BAYER - DIGITAL CAMPUS CHALLENGE 2020

Do you know how digital technologies can be used in healthcare to improve people’s lives? Bayer want to hear what you think

How digital will Bayer be in 2032?

Digitalization is taking place everywhere and affects all of us. At Bayer, we ask ourselves how we can capitalize on the opportunities that arise from digitalization. What effects do you think all these new digital technologies will have and how will Bayer change? And how can they be leveraged in the health business?

Are you enrolled in the field of STEM, Economics or Humanities? Take the opportunity to get noticed: Bayer may offer to purchase your invention!

Now is your chance to discover new opportunities to harness the strengths of digital technologies, get to know Bayer from scratch and live our mission: “Science For A Better Life.” 

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INTERNATIONAL CREATIVITY COMPETITION 2020

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Keep a competitive edge while being a stay-at-home student!

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SEVENTH ANNUAL UNITED NATIONS WORLD OCEANS DAY PHOTO COMPETITION

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“Science in Action”!

This year, the organisers are asking every participant to agree to our charter of ethics in underwater photography. This charter will be an example for many competitions around the world, inviting photographers not just to enjoy the oceans but to lead by example and be true ocean ambassadors."

The Contest

Photography is a powerful medium to convey a feeling or a message. This open and free photo competition seeks to inspire the creation of imagery capturing the beauty, the challenges and the importance of the ocean and humankind’s relation to it, hoping to contribute to actions to preserve it. 

For the 7th time, Dive Photo Guide is hosting the United Nations World Oceans Day Photo Competition.

The photo competition has 10 thematic categories open for submissions:

NEW Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean*

NEW Rejuvenation**

Underwater Seascapes

Underwater Life

Above Water Seascapes

Human Interaction: Making a Difference

Clean Our Ocean - Images relating to the ocean that show the positive or negative consequences of human interference above or below the waterline

NEW Digital Ocean Photo Art***

Youth - Open category for photographers under 18 years of age as of 1 May 2020****

NEW Science in Action: Ocean Decade 2021-2030 category*****

Entries must be submitted electronically in accordance with the contest guidelines and subject to the contest rules.

All entries must be submitted by May 3, 2020 at 12 midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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Concept/Idea

In the final year of the B.Sc. (Ag) and B.Sc. (Horticulture) degree programmes the University Offers a Experiential Learning Programme in the II semester of the Fourth Year. It is a 20 credit course and each student shall pass it. In the course student learn entrepreneurship and they earn while learning. Experiential learning (EL) is a philosophy and methodologies in which educator purposefully engages

with learner in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, entrepreneurship and inculcate values.

Each constituent college shall have at least three units for ELP. You are invited to submit the proposal ( title with brief justification) for establishing agriculture/ horticulture based ELP in the constituent colleges. It shall be location specific, comparative & need based technically feasible & economically viable business idea related to agriculture & allied field. It should be in enterprise mode, could potentially bring about agrientrepreneurship concept among students. Based on submitted ideas the constituent colleges will submit the proposal to ICAR for establishing the EL Unit.

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Tiny House 2020 Architecture Competition

Home is a space that is intimate to all of us. A home goes beyond its everyday function of being a physical shelter for people and their activities; a home connects with its users at a personal and emotional level.

Our humble abodes are being redefined with every passing day. The world is changing constantly, and along with it, our homes are seeing us spend more time within them. The built form of a home is evolving rapidly; its design adapting to various other needs that were not limited to this space before. Homes today are versatile entities – doubling up as offices, play areas, work-out zones, spaces for interaction and recreation, as also being an abode for our furry friends and providing for their needs.

Opportunity

The global scenario today is highlighted by a pandemic along with the environmental and financial concerns along with the desire to have more freedom has led people to follow simpler and efficient ways of living. Today, the home has become the superhero – protecting its inhabitants from a virus, while providing them with the basic necessities for survival. With all of humanity spending almost of all their time indoors now, this scenario has presented designers an opportunity to redefine the idea of “home”. The inclination of the users to follow simpler and efficient ways of living, coupled with a rapid development in technology and materials, there is a great opportunity to create a versatile and innovative personal space.

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Programming Languages Allowed: C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript

There are three Cash Prizes:

1 -> Rs 500

2 -> Rs 200

3 -> Rs 100

All participants would receive participation e-certificate.

And above all entry is completely free.

Spread the word and let the competition begin!

Only valid for college students (Under Graduate and Post Graduate) 

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2nd Libertatem National Essay Writing Competition

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