NCERT introduces section on Emergency in Class IX textbook for first time, flags it as 'Challenge to Democracy'For the first time, NCERT has introduced the Emergency of 1975-77 in a Class 9 textbook, labeling it a significant challenge to Indian demo...
25 Jun, 2026, 10.00 AM IST
A year after AI crash, 'Aeroplane Boy' still haunted by flight he capturedAryan Asari, an 18-year-old from Gujarat, gained local fame as the "Aeroplane Boy" after his video documented an Air India flight crash. Th...
12 Jun, 2026, 10.20 AM IST
Stocks Radar: Gujarat Fluorochemicals stock breaks out from 15-month falling trundling resistance; time to buy?Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd has broken a 15-month falling trendline resistance, signaling a positive outlook for bulls. Experts suggest med...
12 May, 2026, 05.00 AM IST
Political scientists Yogendra Yadav, Suhas Palshikar object to their names being retained in new NCERT textbooksPalshikar and Yadav, who were chief advisors for political science textbooks, had last year said that the rationalisation exercise has "mut...
17 Jun, 2024, 07.01 PM IST
NCERT textbook row: Kerala minister M B Rajesh slams BJPKerala Minister M B Rajesh criticised NCERT's modifications to school textbooks regarding the Babri Masjid demolition. He accued the move b...
17 Jun, 2024, 03.33 PM IST
Want positive not violent and depressed citizens: NCERT chief on tweaks regarding Guj riots, Babri masjid in textbooksThe director of NCERT responded to accusations of saffronisation in curriculum and textbooks by explaining that references to the Gujarat r...
16 Jun, 2024, 04.21 PM IST
NCERT books tweaks: References to Babri Masjid, Gujarat riots, Hindutva droppedNCERT revises textbooks, omitting references to sensitive topics like Babri Masjid demolition, Gujarat riots, and Hindutva. Changes include...
05 Apr, 2024, 03.13 PM IST
Kerala government criticises removal of Periodic table, other topics from NCERT class 10 text bookThe Kerala government has criticised the removal of chapters on the Periodic Table and challenges to democracy, among other topics from Cla...
03 Jun, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
Chapters on Periodic Table, challenges to democracy dropped from NCERT Class 10 textbooksEmphasizing the importance of the topic, a text by American chemist Glenn T Seaborg cited in the Class 11 Chemistry textbook reads, "The Pe...
01 Jun, 2023, 08.57 PM IST
'What a disgrace': Tharoor on removal of Maulana Azad references from NCERT textbookTagging a media report on it, Tharoor, a former minister of state for human resource development, tweeted, "What a disgrace. I have no obje...
14 Apr, 2023, 12.43 PM IST
References to Maulana Azad removed from NCERT's new class 11 political science textbookIn the class 11 political science textbook's first chapter, titled 'Constitution - Why and How', a line has been revised to omit Azad's nam...
13 Apr, 2023, 05.36 PM IST
Disproportionate attention to caste, Muslim chroniclers in NCERT, Kerala textbooks: Thinktank tells Parl PanelThe report has criticised NCERT and Kerala textbooks for giving more weightage to accounts of Muslim chroniclers such as Ibn Batuta and Al ...
08 Jul, 2021, 11.30 PM IST
Gujarat's Class XII textbook says Rama abducted SitaThe glaring mistake went unnoticed, initially but after being informed, the state board for school textbooks said it was a "translation err...
01 Jun, 2018, 11.40 AM IST
Gujarat's school textbooks replete with bloopers; poor translation to blameGujarat’s textbooks authorities from the Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks (GSBST) have over the years faced public criticism locally...
03 Aug, 2014, 06.11 AM IST
Gujarat drops idea of including Modi's life in school syllabusModi opposed the decision in a tweet saying, "I firmly believe that the life story of living individuals should not be included as a part o...
31 May, 2014, 02.16 AM IST
- Monitoring books become federal issue, ministry drops idea
The human resource development ministry has decided to drop the idea of setting up a regulatory mechanism to monitor textbooks.
10 Apr, 2012, 03.12 AM IST
- HRD ministry to set up body to scan textbooks
The human resource development ministry is planning to set up a textbook regulatory board to monitor textbooks outside the government syste...
04 Dec, 2006, 01.40 AM IST