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Friday, March 13, 2026
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Topic: NCERT

NCERT textbook row: Priyanka Chaturvedi flags ‘judicial dictatorship’ in RS after SC bar on authors

Chaturvedi voices concern about what she calls ‘judicial overreach’ in SC’s direction to Centre, states to ‘dissociate’ from academics, who drafted the judiciary chapter.

Your sambar’s stuck in Hormuz

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‘Heads must roll’—SC’s ban on textbook with judiciary chapter; notice to education secy, NCERT director

Slamming NCERT textbook reference to ‘corruption in judiciary’, SC says ‘it seems there is a calculated move to demean judiciary’.

‘Won’t allow anyone on Earth to taint’—CJI on row over NCERT textbook chapter calling judiciary ‘corrupt’

Class 8 Social Science textbook lists 'corruption at various levels of judiciary' as a challenge; CJI says bar and bench 'perturbed', takes suo moto cognisance of the matter

Why NCERT’s teacher training manual on gender has sparked a controversy

The manual came into the spotlight after founder of Garuda Prakashan, an international publishing venture focused on Indic narratives, shared a page from it on X.

Next stop, revisionist central & Donald reporting for Putin duty

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Parsis to Tibetans, India ‘safe haven’ for ‘persecuted communities’ for centuries—new Class 7 NCERT book

Previous NCERT social science textbooks didn't have such a chapter. No connection to CAA controversy, says NCERT director.

Op Sindoor, now in NCERT classrooms—‘mission of honour’ to counter terror ‘ordered by Pakistan leadership’

ThePrint Exclusive: NCERT releases supplementary reading material on Op Sindoor for classes 3 to 12, which says Indian Muslims 'wore black armbands and openly denounced the attack'.

History teaching requires revision more than textbooks

The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.

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...

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.