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- India
NCERT removes ‘Great’ from Akbar, Tipu Sultan in history books: RSS
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Sunil Ambekar on Friday said many positive changes have been introduced in history textbooks, and epithet ‘the great’ is no longer used to describe Mughal emperor…
- India
India had its own prime meridian passing through Ujjain: New NCERT textbook
New Delhi: India had a prime meridian of its own, much ahead of the Greenwich meridian, and it was called “madhya rekha,” which passed through the city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh,…
- India
Oppn slams BJP over NCERT panel’s idea to replace ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in textbooks
New Delhi: Leaders of several opposition parties on Wednesday opposed an NCERT panel’s recommendation to replace “India” with “Bharat” in school textbooks, and alleged that the ruling BJP wanted to change history…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad police register two cases in blasphemous textbook row
Hyderabad: Kalapather police have registered two cases in connection with protests against blasphemous content found in a textbook prescribed by St. Mark’s Boys Town School. The first case has been filed against…
- India
Kerala CM releases supplementary textbooks; attacks NCERT over removal of portions
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday strongly criticised the NCERT for its recent omission of key portions from school textbooks and said that the move was with the political intention…
- India
‘New textbooks to be based on Indian knowledge system, 21st Century requirements’
New Delhi: Efforts are on to make new textbooks for Classes 3 to 12 available by the next academic year, which will be aligned with ethos of the Indian knowledge system and…
- India
NCERT drops references to Khalistan demand from class 12 pol-sci textbook
New Delhi: The NCERT has dropped references to the demand for a separate Sikh nation Khalistan from the class 12 political science textbook following objections from the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC),…
- 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…
