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...
12 Mar, 2026, 12.20 AM IST
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...
17 Jun, 2024, 07.01 PM IST
"I think it is incomplete": Ram Mandir chief priest on NCERT's omission of events in Ayodhya movementThe Chief Priest of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, Satyendra Das Maharaj, criticized the NCERT textbook for omitting key events of the Ayodhy...
16 Jun, 2024, 08.56 PM IST
Education Ministry asks NCERT to review, update textbooks on yearly basisThe Ministry of Education has instructed the NCERT to review and update its textbooks annually to ensure they remain current in the rapidly...
29 Apr, 2024, 06.16 PM 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
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 government criticises removal of Periodic table, other topics from NCERT class 10 text bookThe Kerala government has criticised the removal of chapters on the Periodic Table and challenges to democracy, among other topics from Cla...
03 Jun, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
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...
01 Jun, 2023, 08.57 PM IST
NCERT drops content from class 12 Political Science book after objection from Sikh bodyNational Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) announced to drop of objectionable content against Sikh Community from the po...
30 May, 2023, 09.57 PM IST
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...
17 Apr, 2023, 04.53 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
NCERT removes portions related to RSS, Gandhi & Godse from booksNCERT had made several changes in the textbooks of Class 6 to Class 12 last year. Among these, chapters titled 'Rise of Popular Movements' ...
05 Apr, 2023, 11.32 AM 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
Saffronization fears over history textbooks rewrite plansSince 1977, when Jana Sangh joined govt as part of the Janata regime, there has been threat of changing NCERT textbooks, especially of hist...
24 Jun, 2015, 11.39 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