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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicNational Curriculum Framework (NCF)

Topic: National Curriculum Framework (NCF)

CBSE releases final two board exam policy for class 10, makes first option mandatory; second optional

It aligns with 2023 National Curriculum Framework, updated to reflect NEP, which aims to reduce high-stakes nature of board exams by allowing students two attempts per year.

After beef ban & land use patterns, language is new friction point in idyllic Lakshadweep

Though Kerala HC has deferred order to implement three-language policy, residents point at growing frictions involving controversial policy changes & regulations in past few years.

Mughals out, Magadha empire makes pages of new NCERT Class 7 textbook ‘rooted in Indian ethos’

New Class 7 social science textbook is latest in NCERT’s revamped series under NEP 2020 and new NCF, which stresses content ‘rooted in the Indian and local context and ethos’.

‘Invisible planes in 4th century India, rockets of Krishna’s grandson’: What states want in NCERT books

Haryana proposes students be taught that Maharishi Kanada is father of atomic theory not John Dalton. YSRCP-led Andhra says need to 'not succumb to superstition in name of antiquity'.

Laptop curbs to generic medicine mandate—hasty executive orders hurt governance

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

More ‘choice’, but also more exams — what National Curriculum Framework has in store for grades 9-12

NCF, released Wednesday, envisions sweeping changes for grades 9-12. These include twice-yearly board exams for grades 10 & 12, more study subjects, and end of traditional stream system.

Playful primary learning with ‘Indian values’ in NCERT’s new textbooks for class 1 & 2

Rhymes like ‘Chanda mama door ke’, ‘Murga bole kukdu ku’ are among the new additions. Kids in stories & poems greet each other with ‘namaste’, ‘shubh ratri’ and ‘suprabhat’.

More academics write to NCERT to drop their names from ‘rationalised’ book — text ‘opposite of intended’

Responding to letter by Textbook Development Committee members, NCERT says function & term of committees have ended, adding names of academics just an acknowledgement of their contribution.

NCERT textbooks can’t create a secular student. If they did, BJP wouldn’t be in power

Once we give up this myth of school textbooks as the fountain of truth and the child as an empty vessel, we can take a more sober view of what textbooks can and cannot do.

How to keep teachers ‘moving’? Draft NCF says schools may choose to not give them chairs in class

New National Curriculum Framework for School Education says schools may do this so teachers 'remain standing and in moving condition'. Draft currently open to feedback from stakeholders.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.