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TopicIndian knowledge systems

Topic: Indian knowledge systems

Auroville drew Michel Danino to India. He now leads NCERT team drafting new social science textbooks

New Delhi: Long before he became a prominent voice in Indian civilisation studies, academic Michel Danino was a curious teenager in France, immersed in...

Aryabhata to Ayurveda, how NEP’s driving ‘academic revival’ through India’s ancient knowledge systems

This is the concluding part of a four-part series. You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. New Delhi: In...

Centre’s Indian Knowledge System division set to broaden scope to include fashion, edutainment

Moving away from traditional topics, such as ayurveda and astronomy, the Union Ministry of Education division has called for research proposals in modern fields.

Govt rolls out Gyan Bharatam Mission to conserve 1 crore manuscripts

In Union Budget, FM Sitharaman also announced plans to set up a national digital repository of Indian knowledge systems (IKS) for knowledge sharing.

Modi govt set to bring in ‘neglected’ scholars to study rare ‘non-spiritual’ Indian manuscripts

Through new scheme, Indian Knowledge Systems division seeks to involve experts ‘ignored’ by mainstream academia to study, edit and publish texts in areas like science, agriculture etc.

Ayurveda, Angula & shlokas find mention in new NEP-inspired NCERT Class 6 science textbook

New Class 6 science book—Curiosity—was written keeping in mind NEP 2020 & NCF-SE 2023, which emphasise school curriculum should be ‘rooted in the Indian & local context and ethos’.

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Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.