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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...
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...
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...
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...
Emergency made part of school syllabus during UPA rule, 3 decades after impositionThe Emergency, a controversial period in Indian history, entered NCERT political science textbooks in 2007 under the UPA government, detail...
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...
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...
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...
"Extremely unfortunate...," BHU Prof on removing Darwin's theory from NCERT textbook"It is extremely unfortunate that it (Darwin's theory) is being removed permanently. Biological evolution is a fundamental process and unde...
Kerala likely to teach NCERT's deleted portions in state schoolsThe NCERT recently had, in the name of rationalisation of the syllabus, dropped from its class 12 history textbook certain portions on Maha...
References to Maulana Azad in class 11 textbook dropped in 2013, should not be linked with current rationalisation: NCERTThe NCERT has described the omissions as a possible oversight but refused to undo the deletions, saying they were based on the recommendati...
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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...