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New Delhi, April 10 Textbooks for government schools in Delhi will be delivered by April 20, Education Minister Ashish Sood said on Friday, amid concerns about delays in distribution at the start of the academic year.Sood told

New Delhi, April 6 – Three academics, who were restricted from offering their expertise following a controversy over a chapter in an NCERT textbook containing "offensive" content on corruption in the judiciary, approached the Supreme Court on Monday to explain their position, stating that no...

Varanasi (UP), April 4 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday provided midday meals to children during the launch of the "School Chalo Abhiyan" and distributed textbooks and gifts to the students, according to an official statement.During the event, Adityanath, along with...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 4 Kerala Minister V Sivankutty said on Saturday that once Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes his roadshow in the state capital, he should ask the Union Education Minister to make textbooks for students in classes 8, 9, and 11 available for the next academic year in...

New Delhi, April 2 Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Thursday that Vidya Bharati has served as an important reference point for the government in shaping the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and asserted that many of its practices have now been incorporated into the...

Mumbai, March 26 Renowned historian Jaisingrao Pawar passed away in Kolhapur, western Maharashtra, on Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 85 years old.Pawar had been suffering from lung-related issues for a month, according to family sources.He played a significant role in bringing...

New Delhi, March 20 The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it had constituted an expert committee comprising two former apex court judges and a former Attorney General to review the Class 8 NCERT textbook, which includes a chapter on corruption in the judiciary.Solicitor General...

New Delhi, March 13 – The Delhi Police's Crime Branch has busted a racket involving the sale of pirated copies of NCERT textbooks and arrested a warehouse owner during a raid in north Delhi, officials said on Friday.Acting on a tip-off, a team from the Anti-Robbery and Snatching Cell (ARSC) of...

New Delhi, March 11 The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly objected to the social media reactions of some "malicious individuals" regarding its February 26 order in the NCERT textbook controversy, and said they must understand how to deal with the current Chief Justice of India.A bench...

New Delhi, March 11 In a strong move against three experts involved in drafting a controversial chapter in NCERT's class 8 social science book containing "offensive" content on corruption in the judiciary, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre and all state governments to...

New Delhi, March 11 The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to constitute a committee of domain experts within a week to finalize the curriculum related to legal studies in NCERT textbooks.The top court said that its orders in the matter were not intended to prevent any healthy and...

New Delhi, March 11 The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it has directed the NCERT to review the textbooks of all classes.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi said that instead of asking the NCERT to do so, it would have...

Ranchi, March 10 The Jharkhand assembly witnessed a heated exchange between the treasury and opposition benches on Tuesday regarding "deteriorating" law and order, the "dominance" of bureaucracy, and alleged corruption in the state, while AJSU Party MLA Nirmal Mahato was asked to leave the House...

Mumbai, February 27 The Maharashtra government will launch an awareness campaign starting from the next academic year to help people identify genuine textbooks published by 'Balbharati', its official agency. A state minister told the state assembly on Friday.In a written reply during the...

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...

Mumbai, February 26 – Advocate and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of India, Vikas Singh, criticized the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Thursday for including a chapter on judicial corruption in its textbook, calling the move "unfortunate." He...

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...

New Delhi, February 25 The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a suo motu case on Thursday concerning "objectionable" statements about the judiciary in NCERT textbooks.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi will hear the case titled 'In Re...