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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...- 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...
- Ajit's overnight coup reminds of Sharad Pawar's action 41 yrs agoIn 1978, Pawar ran the rainbow coalition comprising the Janta Party and the Peasants Workers Party that lasted less than two years. Inciden...
- How BJP beats Congress in turning votes into seatsWhile the duo did lead BJP to a sweeping majority in 2014, the ground for that may have been laid much before their time.
- Why the outcome doesn’t matter for these poll candidatesA total of 31,154 candidates (party-affiliated and others) contested in the past five Lok Sabha elections.
- ET Magazine Analysis: What Indian Youth WantDelhi, 23 April 2017 The Indian youth is complex, many-layered, varied, often carrying the remains of the past and clinging to traditions, ...
- Meet Devendra Fadnavis: The Mr Clean of Maharashtra politicsFadnavis became the youngest corporator when he was 21 and the second youngest mayor in 1997, at 27. He likes to read books and is an avid ...
- Maharashtra polls: Sharad Pawar rejects talks of sugar cooperatives losing their grip over politicsThese factories, about 170, were the lifelines of village economy in the entire sugar belt comprising primarily 13 districts helping farmer...
- RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat slams India’s ‘lust for Chinese goods'Bhagwat’s address this year was being especially watched for his observations on the BJP govt’s performance and also cues on its future pol...
- Doordarshan faces criticism for broadcasting RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's speech"It was just like a news event to us. So we covered it," DD’s director-general (news) Archana Dutta said. BJP general secretary Ram Madhav ...
- Despite opinion polls, AAP still confident of winning 30 to 50 LS seatsParty leader Prashant Bhushan attributes the party’s optimism to the fact that AAP is yet to kick-start its national campaign.
- Artists backing politicians should return awards: Janardan ChandurkarWhile Janardan Chandurkar did not name Narendra Modi or Lata Mangeshkar, the reference to the two was clear.
- Artists backing politicians should surrender Padma awards, demands Congressman Janardan ChandurkarThe Congress leader demanded that artists who publicly praise and back political leaders should first surrender their Padma awards.
- Narendra Modi finds BJP's influence much lower than Sena’s in party strongholdsThe number of booths where Sena dominated over BJP was as high as 21,321 in 76 assembly seats which BJP won, while the party’s own presence...
- Academics question Thorat Committee report on cartoons in textbooksAhead of meeting of the national textbook monitoring committee of NCERT, academics have expressed concern over the Thorat Committee report.
- NCERT cartoon row: Panel says not all toons should be removedA committee set up to examine the cartoons in NCERT textbooks is understood to have recommended removal of some "objectionable" toons.
- Ambedkar cartoon row: An act of cowardly populism, says Shiv VisvanathanTwo professionals were abandoned by the education minister in another knee-jerk display of populist politics. The event needs to be analyse...
- Cartoon row: Four accused sent to police custodyFour persons allegedly involved in the ransacking of the office of former NCERT advisor in the wake of the row over B R Ambedkar's cartoon ...
- Sena moves to protect rural base as Raj closes inThe recent assembly poll results showed the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) fast closing in on its chief rival Shiv Sena in major urban ce...
- Women leaders will call the shots in 2009 pollsUnlike in the past, women leaders are expected to set the agenda for the electoral battle in 2009.
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