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- Mumbai
‘Negative content’ needs to be removed from history textbooks: Maha BJP chief
Mumbai: Amid a row over the removal of certain references in NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, BJP’s Maharashtra chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said some people had deliberately written “negative content” in…
- India
Whitewashing with a vengeance: Cong on over deletions from NCERT textbooks
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday hit out at the government over some texts missing from NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi’s pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking the right-wing and…
- India
Did Gandhi strive for Hindu-Muslim unity? NCERT skips subject in its ‘sanitised’ version
New Delhi: National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has removed paragraphs from Class 12 Political Science textbooks that contained information about the ban briefly imposed on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)…
- India
NCERT’s scrapping of chapter on Mughals, attempt to change history: Jharkhand Cong
Ranchi: The decision to drop lessons on Mughal courts from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books is an attempt to change the nation’s history, alleged Avinash Pandey, Congress’s…
- India
UP schools adopt NCERT’s revised textbooks from current session
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government schools will adopt from this academic session the NCERT’s new class 12 history textbooks in which portions about Mughal courts have been removed. “We teach our students using…
- India
Gender neutral uniforms, safe washrooms: NCERT’s manual for schools on transgender students
New Delhi: Gender-neutral uniforms in schools, transgender-inclusive curriculum, safe washroom facilities, and measures to prevent gender-based violence are among the recommendations made by a new NCERT manual for smoothly integrating the third…
- India
Bhagavad Gita mentioned in NCERT textbooks for class 6, 7
The Bhagavad Gita is mentioned in the NCERT textbooks for classes VI and VII, and its shlokas are found in the Sanskrit textbooks for classes XI and XII, the Lok Sabha was…
- India
Uttarakhand Waqf Board to modernise madrassas, implement dress code, NCERT books
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government is planning to rejuvenate the madrassas and various steps are being taken for their modernisation in the state, Waqf Board Chairman Shadab Shams said on Thursday. Shams said…
- Opinions
NCERT’s manipulation of school textbooks to negatively impact minds
There is a bright young nine-year-old boy Karam who has recently come to live in my house. Every morning his mother takes him to the bus stop for the school bus. The…
- India
Review of Dr Nauman Khan’s book ‘Falsafa-e-Taalimaat’
By Pervez Bari A book titled “Falsafa-e-Taalimaat’ (Philosophy of Education) in Urdu has hit the stands which deals with the state of affairs in the field of education at the school level…