NCERT suggests Ramayana, Mahabharata in school textbooks

Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata should be taught in schools as part of the history curriculum under India's 'classical period', a high-level National Council of Educational Research and......

'India is only a 150-year-old name'

'Bharat is a name that is 7,000 years old.''We are not saying the name of the country should be changed from India to Bharat; we only recommended that the stress should be on Bharat.' Photograph:......

NCERT panel for replacing 'India' with 'Bharat' in textbooks

The committee has also recommended highlighting 'Hindu victories' in various battles in the textbooks. IMAGE: A girl reads a book at a roadside book stall in Nagpur. Image used only for......

Sudha Murty, Shankar Mahadevan in NCERT panel to develop new textbooks

Infosys Foundation Chairman Sudha Murty, music maestro Shankar Mahadevan, economist Sanjeev Sanyal and 16 others are part of a new committee constituted by the NCERT to revise textbooks according......

Now use scratch cards for online learning

And you thought scratch cards can only win you television sets, gold coins and holiday vouchers! Macmillan India imprint Full Marks has come out with a support website for students of class VI-XII......

What the new Fed chairman should do

What the world needs is a Fed chairman instinctively sceptical of financial markets and their social value, says Dani Rodrik. The race is on to fill the most important economic policy position in......

RBI for subject on financial management in schools

The Reserve Bank of India has proposed to the HRD ministry to ask the school boards to introduce a subject on financial management in the curriculum to enhance the students' knowledge in the field.......

What good are economists, anyway?

Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder: What good are economists anyway? A commenter on a......