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Maulana Azad’s erasure from NCERT books due to his Muslim identity: NCP
Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to ‘erase’ the name of India’s first Education Minister and Bharat Ratna, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad,…
- India
Maulana Azad loses place in NCERT textbook
India’s first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, has lost a place in the revised political science textbook published by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). In the old…
- India
NCERT’s decision to make ‘changes’ driven by divisive and partisan agenda: Historians
New Delhi: Around 250 educationists and historians criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) over its decision to revise textbooks. They said that removing the chapters was driven by…
- India
‘Irrational to omit key parts from NCERT books’: Teachers’ body
New Delhi: The Democratic Teachers’ Front (DTF) on Friday criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for making changes in textbooks of Class 11 and 12 that include omission…
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NCERT’s revision of textbooks part of ‘saffronisation’ agenda: Kerala CM
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday strongly condemned the dropping of certain chapters and portions from NCERT class 12 textbooks and alleged that “complete saffronisation” of academic books was the…
- India
Textbooks not revised to please or offend anyone: NCERT chief
New Delhi: The recent changes in textbooks have not been made to please or offend anyone, rather these are purely based on the recommendations made by experts, said NCERT Director Dinesh Prasad…
- India
Reference to Gujarat riots dropped from NCERT class 11 Sociology book
New Delhi: A portion referring to the Gujarat riots has been dropped from the class 11 Sociology textbook by NCERT, months after it removed the reference to the 2002 communal violence in…
- 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…
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‘Why I killed Gandhi’ may become moral lesson: Owaisi on NCERT row
Hyderabad: The All India Majilis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi warned on Wednesday that removing any references to the 2002 Gujarat riots from NCERT textbooks will ‘make our kids intellectually poorer and…
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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)…
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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…
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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
New NCERT books to have chapters sans Mughal history
New Delhi: National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revised its books, including the 12th class History book by removing the chapters on the Mughal empire. The change will be…
- 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…
