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'.
19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee was notified by NCERT on 21 July, will use National Curriculum Framework for School Education as ‘guiding roadmap’.
Madhya Pradesh minister Inder Singh Parmar accuses Congress of ‘glorifying foreign invaders’ & says Savarkar made significant contributions to Indian freedom struggle.
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.
Yadav and Palshikar have reiterated their demand for removal of their names from NCERT textbooks after the council asserted its right to make changes based on copyright ownership.
Yadav & Palshikar were NCERT's chief advisors for political science books. Calling latest changes to content 'blatantly partisan', the duo said they weren't even informed about them.
An open letter, signed by scientists, teachers & educators, says students’ thought process would be 'seriously handicapped' if deprived of exposure to this fundamental discovery.
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.
Members of NCERT Textbook Development Committee of 2005 say they weren't consulted on deletions and some were not even aware that portions they worked on had been removed.
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.
‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.
December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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