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
"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
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
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
New curriculum, books for grades 3 and 6 from 2024-25, no change for other classes: CBSENCERT and CBSE to release new syllabus and textbooks for Classes 3 and 6 in 2024-25. NCF revised after 18 years. Schools advised to incorpo...
23 Mar, 2024, 09.50 PM IST
NCERT does not differentiate between 'India' and 'Bharat': MoS Education tells Rajya Sabha"Article 1 of the Constitution of India states that 'India', that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States'. India's Constitution recognises b...
06 Dec, 2023, 10.55 PM IST
NCERT panel recommends replacing 'India' with 'Bharat' in school textbooksA committee appointed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in India has recommended replacing the name "Ind...
25 Oct, 2023, 02.55 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
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
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
New NCERT textbooks revised as per NEP likely from 2024-25"The new textbooks are likely to be introduced from 2024-25 academic session. It is a tall task but we are aiming for that. The textbooks w...
27 Mar, 2023, 04.56 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
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