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 sets up panel to examine feedback received about content in new textbooksThe National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has created a committee. This panel will examine feedback on new textbook...
07 Aug, 2025, 05.49 PM IST
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
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
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
'Chaddi' row: Siddaramaiah asks why post of RSS chief never occupied by Dalit, CM hits backThe row started after some members National Students' Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress, burnt a pair of khaki shorts...
07 Jun, 2022, 07.02 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
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
15 years on, schools to get new curriculumAs per the proposal, by April 2021 the new curriculum would be ready and the development of the new school textbooks will commence. The tex...
14 May, 2020, 10.52 AM IST
NCERT panel formed to review history textbooks has submitted report: GovernmentIrani also said that representations have been received from time to time with regard to history textbooks.
07 Dec, 2015, 06.06 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
- Academics question Thorat Committee report on cartoons in textbooks
Ahead of meeting of the national textbook monitoring committee of NCERT, academics have expressed concern over the Thorat Committee report.
04 Jul, 2012, 02.42 AM IST
- Cut out Unni, Munni & lampooned netas from NCERT textbooks: Cartoon Committee
The majority of the 20 cartoons suggested for removal by the Thorat Committee from the NCERT textbooks on political science relate to commo...
03 Jul, 2012, 02.47 AM 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