A bit much, no, my lordships? The debate over SC’s lifetime ban on academics in NCERT rowThe Supreme Court's recent ruling has ousted three academics from government collaborations over a contentious chapter in a Class 8 NCERT t...
13 Mar, 2026, 11.09 PM IST
NCERT to review textbooks across classes; expert panel to vet curriculum, Centre tells Supreme CourtResponding to a Supreme Court ruling on disputed content found in a Class 8 Social Science textbook, the government has mandated NCERT to r...
12 Mar, 2026, 12.20 AM IST
NCERT book row SC disapproves of re-writing controversial chapterIn a decisive move, the Supreme Court has voiced its strong dissatisfaction with how the NCERT director managed a contentious chapter in th...
12 Mar, 2026, 12.04 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
"I think it is incomplete": Ram Mandir chief priest on NCERT's omission of events in Ayodhya movementThe Chief Priest of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, Satyendra Das Maharaj, criticized the NCERT textbook for omitting key events of the Ayodhy...
16 Jun, 2024, 08.56 PM IST
Education Ministry asks NCERT to review, update textbooks on yearly basisThe Ministry of Education has instructed the NCERT to review and update its textbooks annually to ensure they remain current in the rapidly...
29 Apr, 2024, 06.16 PM IST
Collective effort in jeopardy, drop our names from textbooks: Academicians to NCERTTheir collective creative effort is in jeopardy and their names should be dropped from textbooks, 33 academicians have told the NCERT, days...
15 Jun, 2023, 02.20 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
Concerted attempt to 're-write' history, pass on 'distorted legacy'': Cong on removal of Maulana Azad references from NCERT textbookAddressing a press conference on the issue at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Congress spokesperson Anshul Avijit said there is a conce...
13 Apr, 2023, 06.57 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
NCERT removes chapters on 'Mughal Empire' from Class 12 History bookFrom Class 12, chapters related to 'Kings and Chronicles; the Mughal Courts (C. 16th and 17th centuries)' have been removed from the Histor...
03 Apr, 2023, 02.22 PM IST
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28 Jan, 2022, 03.34 PM IST
NCERT textbooks may get dearer by 30% from next yearThe online orders will enable NCERT to validate the actual requirement of books for the forthcoming academic session and ensure supply with...
28 Jul, 2017, 11.12 AM IST
NCERT to review books for 1st time since 2007While some books published by the CBSE are still not available in the market, NCERT books are available with empanelled vendors and schools.
15 May, 2017, 10.03 AM IST
Why content on Vivekananda, Bose reduced in NCERT books: CICCommission asked NCERT to disclose why content on Vivekananda was reduced from 1250 to 37 words in Class XII books and removed from Class V...
24 Jan, 2016, 03.19 PM IST
- NCERT to include Srimanta Sankaradeva in school curriculum
The NCERT has assured to include Assam's medieval socio-religious reformer and litterateur Srimanta Sankaradeva in school curriculum.
14 Mar, 2013, 06.11 PM IST
- 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.
29 Jun, 2012, 06.11 PM IST