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
Panel suggests replacing 'India' with 'Bharat' in NCERT textbooksA NCERT committee for curriculum development in India has recommended replacing the term 'India' with 'Bharat' in school textbooks. The com...
25 Oct, 2023, 11.17 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
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
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...
26 Apr, 2023, 08.49 PM IST
NCERT to bring balanced perspective of all genders in new curriculum, textbooks: Parliamentary panelThe panel had earlier recommended that to address the under-representation of women and girls in school textbooks or them being depicted on...
20 Dec, 2022, 10.50 AM IST
Textbook controversy: "Will respectfully respond to Deve Gowda," says Basavaraj BommaiStating that numerous errors in the textbook cannot be rectified merely through corrigendum and separate printing of pages, Gowda in a lett...
21 Jun, 2022, 08.07 PM IST
NCERT to consider chapter on TeaNETA had appealed to the Smriti Irani to include a chapter on Tea and its role in the economy and society in the school textbooks.
22 May, 2016, 10.15 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
- 'Due process' was followed in selecting political cartoons in NCERT textbooks
A HRD ministry appointed committee has concluded that 'due process' was followed in selecting the political cartoons used in the NCERT text...
26 Sep, 2012, 06.38 AM IST
NCERT panel expresses disappointment over SK Thorat Committee reportNCERT panel to decide on the use of political cartoons in the political science textbooks has expressed its "disappointment" over the SK Th...
14 Jul, 2012, 10.42 PM IST
- Thorat panel member files a dissenting note, favours use of cartoons in textbooks
Sources in NCERT said that Professor MSS Pandian had disagreed with the committee, and sent in his dissent note.
30 Jun, 2012, 07.55 AM IST
- Overuse of political cartoons in school textbooks: Thorat Committee
The Thorat Committee constituted to review NCERT’s political science textbooks is of the view that there has been an overuse of political c...
29 Jun, 2012, 08.29 AM IST
Ambedkar cartoon row: Government says, textbooks will not feature any ‘offensive’ cartoonsThe government has ordered an inquiry to identify NCERT officials responsible for inclusion of the Ambedkar cartoon in the textbook.
15 May, 2012, 03.20 AM IST
- NCERT asked to remove Ambedkar cartoon from textbooks: Sibal
Agreeing that Ambedkar's cartoon in an NCERT textbook was objectionable, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today said orders have been issued to wit...
11 May, 2012, 05.17 PM IST
- Monitoring books become federal issue, ministry drops idea
The human resource development ministry has decided to drop the idea of setting up a regulatory mechanism to monitor textbooks.
10 Apr, 2012, 03.12 AM IST
- HRD ministry to set up body to scan textbooks
The human resource development ministry is planning to set up a textbook regulatory board to monitor textbooks outside the government syste...
04 Dec, 2006, 01.40 AM IST