- Common test, NCERT books issues keep HRD mandarins busy
Another highlight of the year gone by was the passage of the Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 amid rare show of unanimity in both the h...
Shashi Tharoor hopes pending HRD Bills will be passed soon in ParliamentGovt expects that pending legislations pertaining to HRD ministry will be passed during the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament.
- National monitoring panel's decision on cartoons to be final
"What the national monitoring committee decides will be an all round decision. The books will not be affected and will come out on time," N...
- NCERT cartoon row: Panel says not all toons should be removed
A committee set up to examine the cartoons in NCERT textbooks is understood to have recommended removal of some "objectionable" toons.
- VS Achuthanandan decries intolerence towards cartoons
VS Achuthanandan expressed serious concern over the intolerance shown by certain political quarters towards cartoons and caricatures in rec...
- Chief Minister Jayalalithaa demands removal of cartoon on anti-Hindi agitation
Criticising the cartoon on anti-Hindi agitation in NCERT textbook for "hurting" the sentiments of Tamils, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today...
- Ambedkar cartoon row:i 'Honesty' is as unparliamentary as 'liar'
Over the sixty years of Parliament, the list of words and expressions declared unparliamentary at some point has raised eyebrows.
Ambedkar cartoon row: Government says, textbooks will not feature any ‘offensive’ cartoonsThe government has ordered an inquiry to identify NCERT officials responsible for inclusion of the Ambedkar cartoon in the textbook.
- Cartoon row: Four accused sent to police custody
Four persons allegedly involved in the ransacking of the office of former NCERT advisor in the wake of the row over B R Ambedkar's cartoon ...
It's shame on Ambedkar's memory: Yogendra YadavWith the govt forced into withdrawing the NCERT's textbook, Indian Constitution at Work, Yogendra Yadav & S Palshikar quit as the Council's...
- Ruckus over cartoon issue distrupts Parliament
Parliament was disrupted over a cartoon that depicts Ambedkar seated on a snail, named Constitution, & Nehru trying to whip the snail to ma...
- Ambedkar cartoon, Aircel-Maxis issue disrupts Lok Sabha
A cartoon depicting B R Ambedkar, purportedly published in a NCERT textbook, and row over Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement in the Ai...
- Cartoon row: Professor Mohapatra fears for life
Ambikesh Mohapatra, who is out on bail after being arrested for posting a cartoon on the internet showing Mamata in ‘poor light’, said that...
- Pak blocks 800 URLs over Facebook cartoon row
Pakistani authorities have blocked 800 URLs that feature "blasphemous" and "sacrilegious" content in the wake of the ban on Facebook and Yo...
- Pak students against ban on Facebook, YouTube in country
Pakistani students are opposing the government's decision to ban Facebook and video portal YouTube, saying the move would only encourage ex...
- Monkey cartoon sparks racial row in US
Civil rights leaders and elected officials said it echoed racist stereotypes of African-Americans as monkeys.
- Suicide blast at Danish embassy in Pak kills 8
A suicide car bombing outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan killed eight people and wounded 27 on Monday in a possible new backlash over c...