Akbar was a rapist, says Rajasthan education minister Madan Dilawar, seeks review of text booksThe School Education Minister, Madan Dilawar, has made controversial statements accusing Mughal emperor Akbar of being a 'rapist'. Dilawar ...
28 Feb, 2024, 12.32 PM IST
In a first, Kerala to include Constitution Preamble in school textbooksThe state of Kerala will now include the preamble to the Constitution of India in its revised school textbooks. This decision aims to insti...
17 Jan, 2024, 04.29 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
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
'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
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
Textbooks revision controversy: Will place before people contents revised by Congress & BJP regimes, says Karnataka govtThe controversy had erupted with some organisations raising objections over the alleged replacing of a chapter on Bhagat Singh with an essa...
07 Jun, 2022, 06.11 PM IST
Throw revised syllabus into dustbin, says SiddaramaiahEven as Karnataka Chief Minister disbanded the Textbook Revision Committee and tried to pull down the curtains on the controversy surroundi...
05 Jun, 2022, 03.09 PM IST
Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai rules out constituting new textbook review panelChakrateertha has been facing severe backlash from various quarters for his tweets put out in 2016 in which he had allegedly mocked the 'Na...
04 Jun, 2022, 07.00 PM IST
Karnataka dissolves textbook review committee, agrees to revisit chapter on BasavannaChief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said that the committee has been disbanded since its designated work had concluded. Bommai emphas...
04 Jun, 2022, 11.17 AM IST
Chapter on Bhagat Singh not removed: Karnataka Textbook Society"Currently there are reports in the media that a lesson on Hedgewar has been included into class 10 first language Kannada text book by omi...
17 May, 2022, 07.55 PM IST
Omission of lesson on Bhagat Singh from Karnataka school textbook insult to martyr: Arvind KejriwalKejriwal's reaction came a day after some organisations, including All-India Democratic Students Organisation and All-India Save Education ...
17 May, 2022, 01.45 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
- 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.
29 Jun, 2012, 06.11 PM IST