'People in Korea speak half Tamil,' says Madhavan as he questions NCERT for ignoring southern India historyActor R Madhavan has criticised the historical content in Indian school textbooks, highlighting a disproportionate focus on Mughal and Brit...
02 May, 2025, 09.54 PM IST
No Mughal Dynasty in Class 7 NCERT textbook, fresh chapters on Indian rulers introducedClass VII NCERT social science textbooks have removed chapters on the Mughals and the Delhi Sultanate, replaced by content on ancient India...
28 Apr, 2025, 11.39 AM 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
Centre rejects Kerala's demand to reconsider 'India' to 'Bharat' textbook recommendationUnion Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has declined the Kerala Government's demand to reconsider the recent recommendation of an NCERT...
19 Jan, 2024, 03.48 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
Karnataka Textbook Row: Govt approves removal of lessons on RSS founder Keshav Baliram HedgewarThe Karnataka government has approved the removal of lessons on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar on Thursday, reported Times Now. BJP ha...
16 Jun, 2023, 11.04 AM 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 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...
15 Apr, 2023, 12.55 AM 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
Concerted attempt to 're-write' history, pass on 'distorted legacy'': Cong on removal of Maulana Azad references from NCERT textbookAddressing a press conference on the issue at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Congress spokesperson Anshul Avijit said there is a conce...
13 Apr, 2023, 06.57 PM IST
Why dropping the Mughals (and mechanics) from textbooks is okRana Pratap, Guru Hargobind Singh, Chhatrapati Shivaji, and other valiants may find it a tad difficult to be remembered for their valour mi...
09 Apr, 2023, 12.43 PM IST
Those who try to re-write history are consigned to dustbin of history, says Congress over deletions from NCERT textbooksThe Indian National Congress has accused the government of eroding history after it eliminated content about Mahatma Gandhi's assassination...
05 Apr, 2023, 04.45 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
Naseeruddin Shah & Aditi Rao Hydari-starrer series 'Taj - Divided by Blood' to be released on March 3The web series will also feature Dharmendra in a pivotal role.
18 Feb, 2023, 10.09 AM IST
Disproportionate attention to caste, Muslim chroniclers in NCERT, Kerala textbooks: Thinktank tells Parl PanelThe report has criticised NCERT and Kerala textbooks for giving more weightage to accounts of Muslim chroniclers such as Ibn Batuta and Al ...
08 Jul, 2021, 11.30 PM IST
No plan to "rewrite" history, says Rajasthan University VC on HaldighatiHe said the proposal was to include a textbook in the history syllabus so that an "alternate opinion" on the Haldighati battle was also hig...
15 Feb, 2017, 04.30 PM IST
Haryana joins Rajasthan bid to get Akbar defeated at battle of HaldighatiHaryana education minister Ram Bilas Sharma has asked RU to provide research material proving that Akbar was defeated by the king of Mewar.
11 Feb, 2017, 01.59 PM IST