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
NCERT orders immediate recall of Class 8 Social Science book amid judiciary rowNCERT has pulled back its Class 8 Social Science textbook after a Supreme Court ban on printing and distribution. The backlash involves a c...
27 Feb, 2026, 05.58 PM IST
Out-of-syllabus bits in school syllabusA Supreme Court ruling has removed a Class 8 textbook section on judicial corruption. The court found the content a conspiracy to prejudice...
26 Feb, 2026, 11.51 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
Congress regime to align Karnataka's school textbooks with its election promise, set to drop portions added by BJP governmentThe new government is in the process of identifying the parts in school textbooks in Kannada and Social Studies subjects. Since textbooks h...
09 Jun, 2023, 11.21 PM 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
'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
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
Rationalisation of textbooks done for speedy recovery, compensating time loss due to Covid: MoEThe National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) had last month removed portions about the 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, ...
18 Jul, 2022, 04.26 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
Now, sociology textbook for nurses hails dowry as boon to society!The "gems" of social wisdom are available in "Textbook of Sociology for Nurses", penned by senior author T.K. Indrani, and published by the...
05 Apr, 2022, 11.33 AM IST
Karnataka government to remove Class 6 textbook content that hurt feelings of BrahminsThe Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar in a note to top officials of his department has also directed that a committee...
18 Dec, 2020, 03.32 PM IST
Karnataka to remove textbooks of Tipu Sultan"We are not going to allow anything about Tipu in textbooks," CM Yediyurappa said in response to a question at the meet.
31 Oct, 2019, 08.18 AM IST
B.Com. Honours textbook advises students to write emails as 'interesting and short as skirts', sparks rowThe book, which has been in print since over a decade, said, "Email messages should be like skirts--short enough to be interesting."
07 Jun, 2017, 05.44 PM 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
- 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