Law student Rishi Kumar says Tamil Nadu National Law University asked him to take down Substack titled ‘The Supreme Court of India Has No Spine’ citing ‘calls from advocates & a few judges’.
Historical and factual errors have long marred the study materials of the DU School of Open Learning despite calls for reform. ‘A major procedural lapse,’ said Maya John, DU Academic Council member.
With more focus on traditional culture & national security, new textbooks will be rolled out next week and by 2026 will be taught to all grades in primary classes and junior high.
The Delhi launch of ‘The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India’ by Prof R Govinda was a layered discussion on historical failures and troubling trends in education.
In 2020, education ministry launched IKS division called Bhāratīya Jñāna Paramparā Vibhāga, aiming to promote interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary research on indigenous knowledge.
Palshikar & Yadav, who were chief advisers for political science textbooks, asked NCERT to take their names off last year too, but council refused citing its status as copyright owner.
In the revised NCERT books, Babri Masjid has been termed 'three-domed structure' & several topics have been deleted, including 'rath yatra' and communal violence after demolition.
NCERT says that without these revisions, made in the Class XI political science textbook, the chapter on secularism came across as a 'justification of vote bank politics'.
While the rest of the world has converged on a model—technical judgement inside the institution, as a permanent organisational property—India remains a conspicuous and costly outlier.
The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.
INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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