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New Delhi, March 10 – The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) issued an unconditional and unqualified public apology on Tuesday regarding a controversial chapter in its now-withdrawn Class 8 Social Science textbook, which referred to corruption in the judiciary.Ahead...

New Delhi, March 10 The NCERT issued a public apology on Tuesday for including a chapter on judicial corruption in a recent book that had earned the ire of the Supreme Court, and said the entire textbook has been withdrawn.The social science textbook for Class 8 stated that corruption, a...

New Delhi, March 10 – The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) issued a public apology on Tuesday regarding a chapter in its Class 8 Social Science textbook, titled "Exploring Society: India and Beyond" (Grade 8, Part II), which included a section on the judiciary. The...

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New Delhi, February 27 The NCERT issued an advisory on Friday, asking anyone who has copies of the banned class 8 textbook, which included a chapter on "judicial corruption," to return them to the council headquarters.In a strongly worded advisory, the National Council of Educational Research...

New Delhi, February 27 The Supreme Court's ban on the Class 8 NCERT textbook containing a chapter on judicial corruption has protected the judiciary's dignity from unwarranted attacks in young minds, CPI(M) leader John Brittas said on Friday, arguing that "prejudice against shared history...

Lucknow, February 27 Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday launched a sharp attack on the BJP over a controversy surrounding the NCERT Class 8 Social Science textbook, and questioned whether the ruling party was running a government or a circus of its whims and fancies.He also...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 27 Kerala Education Minister V Sivankutty on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's intervention in the controversy over alleged remarks disrespecting the judiciary in an NCERT Class 8 textbook, and called for a comprehensive investigation into recent textbook...

New Delhi, February 27 The Congress on Friday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the NCERT controversy, saying that the Prime Minister himself guided and shaped the "Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks," which is the real NCERT.The opposition party said that the next...

New Delhi, February 26 Following the criticism from the Supreme Court, the NCERT is investigating the process used to create the textbooks that led to the inclusion of a chapter on "judicial corruption," sources said.The Council is also identifying the individuals responsible for the inclusion...

New Delhi, February 26 The Supreme Court said on Thursday that the need for judicial intervention in the NCERT textbook matter has arisen not from a desire to suppress criticism, but from the imperative to safeguard the integrity of the national curriculum.A bench comprising Chief Justice...

New Delhi, February 26 – The Supreme Court has ordered an immediate nationwide withdrawal of the Class 8 Social Science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), along with a complete ban on it. This decision comes after observing that the chapter...

New Delhi/Jamshedpur, February 26 The Supreme Court on Thursday imposed a "complete ban" on any further publication, reprint, or digital dissemination of the NCERT's Class 8 social science book, as it contains "offensive" content regarding corruption in the judiciary. The court stated that this...

Jamshedpur, February 26 – Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressed deep regret on Thursday over a controversial chapter in a Class 8 social science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), which dealt with the judiciary. He also...

New Delhi, February 26 – The Supreme Court on Thursday imposed a "complete ban" on any further publication, reprint, or digital dissemination of the NCERT's Class 8 social science book, which contains "offensive" content regarding corruption in the judiciary. The court stated that this...

Jamshedpur/New Delhi, February 26 Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressed his dismay on Thursday over the NCERT including a chapter on judicial corruption in its Class 8 textbook, while promising to hold individuals accountable and take action against those involved in drafting the...

New Delhi, February 26 Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressed his dismay on Thursday over the NCERT introducing a chapter on judicial corruption in its Class 8 textbook, while promising to hold those responsible accountable and take action against them.He also emphasized that...

New Delhi, February 26 The BJP on Thursday termed the controversial chapter in an NCERT textbook discussing judicial corruption as a "sensitive matter", and said it respects the country's judiciary and takes pride in its impartial functioning.The comments came after the Supreme Court imposed a...

New Delhi, February 26 – Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Thursday for including critical references to the judiciary in its textbooks.Reacting to the Supreme Court's observations on the...

New Delhi, February 26 The Congress said on Thursday that the Supreme Court is rightly concerned about critical references to the judiciary in NCERT textbooks, and claimed that the rewriting of such books over the past decade has been an RSS-driven exercise full of "deception and malice".The...