NCERT textbook row: Supreme Court modifies earlier order concerning 3 academicsThe Supreme Court has modified its earlier order regarding three academics involved in a dispute over an NCERT textbook chapter on corrupti...
22 May, 2026, 02.11 PM IST
Recent UGC, NCERT rows could have been avoided: Dharmendra PradhanUnion Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has labelled recent controversies surrounding UGC equity regulations and an NCERT textbook as a...
28 Mar, 2026, 01.28 PM IST
India forms panel to rewrite controversial NCERT judiciary chapter; Supreme Court closes caseA new committee has been established by the government to overhaul a contentious chapter concerning the judiciary in NCERT textbooks. This ...
20 Mar, 2026, 11.52 PM IST
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 book row: IIT-Gandhinagar to review Michel Danino's guest professor role after SC directiveIIT-Gandhinagar will review Michel Danino's position as guest professor. This follows a Supreme Court order for governments and institution...
12 Mar, 2026, 05.41 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
NCERT orders immediate recall of Class 8 Social Science book amid judiciary rowNCERT has pulled back its Class 8 Social Science textbook after a Supreme Court ban on printing and distribution. The backlash involves a c...
27 Feb, 2026, 05.58 PM IST
NCERT row: Dharmendra Pradhan vows accountability, actionThe Supreme Court has banned an NCERT Class 8 textbook chapter on judicial corruption. The court ordered seizure of all copies. Union Educa...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.52 PM IST
'RSS-driven exercise full of mischief': Congress slams rewriting of textbooks amid NCERT rowThe Congress on Thursday backed the Supreme Court’s strong reaction to references on judicial corruption in an NCERT Class 8 textbook, call...
26 Feb, 2026, 01.54 PM IST
'Graft in judiciary' chapter: NCERT pulls textbook from website, may remove controversial portionsThe National Council of Educational Research and Training has withdrawn a Class 8 textbook from its website after drawing sharp criticism f...
25 Feb, 2026, 07.49 PM IST
Sudha Murthy, Shankar Mahadevan on NCERT's 19-member panel to develop news textbooksThe committee is mandated to prepare the textbooks, and other teaching learning materials, which will, in turn, be published and used by th...
12 Aug, 2023, 07.57 PM IST
'Deletion' of Darwin theory from textbooks: Union minister Pradhan says nothing of this sort has happenedIndia's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has denied reports that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was removed from the National Co...
21 Jun, 2023, 09.04 AM 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
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
NCERT consulted 25 external experts, 16 CBSE teachers for syllabus rationalisation, according to Education MinistryAt the heart of the row is the fact that while the changes made as part of the rationalisation exercise were notified, some of these contro...
15 Apr, 2023, 12.55 AM IST
NCERT deletes adverse references to communities in textbooksNCERT has deleted certain 'objectionable' references to Nadar and Ezhava communities of Kerala in history textbooks in view of protests
07 Jun, 2013, 07.57 PM IST