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Monday, August 11, 2025
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Topic: NCERT

‘Educational censorship’: US non-profit flags Modi govt’s ‘alarming rewriting’ of school textbooks

New York-based PEN America criticises curriculum revision by NCERT for school textbooks that include changes to sections on Mahatma Gandhi’s death & trimming of Mughal history.

A generation will be deprived of important historical knowledge: Urdu press on NCERT revisions

New Delhi: The National Council of Educational Research and Training’s (NCERT) controversial changes and deletions in school textbooks were widely covered in the Urdu...

Historians demand deletions in NCERT textbooks be withdrawn, ask why they were not consulted

Historians including Romila Thapar & Jayati Ghosh, have condemned NCERT move of dropping topics like history of Mughal courts, 2002 Gujarat riots and more, terming it 'divisive'.

Congress to BJP, Ambedkar cartoons to 2002 riots, NCERT syllabus’ run-in with political axe

In the name of easing the students' burden, Modi govt has for the third time deleted crucial events from social science and History textbooks, including a chapter on Mughals.

Antony gets a ‘Kinder surprise’ for Easter & throw in Mughals, Mahatma and stir

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Deleting history from NCERT textbooks is lying to children. It’s also betraying parents

The intention behind rewriting textbooks is to make children grow up with the view that Muslims are the enemy. And that they have no place in India.

‘Possible oversight, but won’t restore changes’: NCERT director on ‘silent’ Gandhi deletions from books

A controversy erupted Wednesday as NCERT was accused of surreptitiously purging certain portions on Mahatma Gandhi from revised Class 12 books released after a pruning exercise.

Mughal-e-rasure & mushroom cloud over Trump Tower

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

A father’s message on Mughal chapter cuts and unemployment, and Twitter gets a new profile picture

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Want to use science to standardise testing & scoring in India: CEO of body behind GRE, TOEFL

Educational Testing Service working with Indian govt to set up national assessment regulator PARAKH, which will set up norms for exams. CEO Amit Sevak says they will align to new NEP.

On Camera

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.