For his participation in Netaji's INA, Major Ghulam Ahmed Qureshi was put into solitary confinement in the Red Fort, charged with rebellion against the Crown. Despite Nehru, Asaf Ali and a host of top lawyers defending them, Qureshi and his fellow officers were sentenced to death.
A cartoon depicting B R Ambedkar purportedly published in a NCERT textbook and row over Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement in the Aircel-Maxis deal today led to disruption of the Lok Sabha.
In a move that may ruffle feathers, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Himachal Pradesh has decided to remove a chapter on noted painter M F Hussain from an NCERT book, claiming his work has "nothing to inspire students".
The decision has been taken as per the recommendation of the National Monitoring Committee of NCERT that reviews the curricula from time to time.
NCERT also informed the court that it had already issued circulars to the schools about it.
Both Houses of Parliament were rocked recently over the issue with members alleging distortions in the books portraying patriots and certain castes in bad light.
"Only those who want to take up some job or discontinue studies can appear for the Class X exam," Avtar Singh, member secretary of the focus group, told PTI.
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'Any person who wants to enter this service should have a single object of serving the public irrespective of hindrances.'
The history of the Northeast, an area whose past is little known in the rest of the country, will now find a place in NCERT textbooks, says Arjun Singh.
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When the pandemic affected education, 17-year-old Arshya Gaur found a way to harness the power of technology and find a different way to bring education to her students.
'The Dravidian movement should have been explained to students using photographs of that era as they would be the best tool for this purpose and instead carrying a cartoon saying the Tamil student was not required to study Hindi and that he was ignorant towards English has hurt the sentiments of Tamil people,' Jayalalithaa said in a statement in Chennai
Agreeing that Ambedkar's cartoon in an NCERT textbook was objectionable, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said orders have been issued to withdraw it and stop distribution of these books, and promised concrete action in the matter.
The government also intends to constitute a state-level 'yoga cell' of yoga experts.
Close on the heels of the Ambedkar cartoon row, a cartoon on the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu in the 1960s in a NCERT class XII text book has kicked up another controversy in the state, with key United Progressive Alliance ally Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam demanding its removal and other parties joining the chorus.
New Delhi-based NGO organised a cartoon demonstration and hosted a public forum against Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal's intention to eliminate all political cartoons from NCERT textbooks. Abhishek Mande listens in.
New Delhi-based NGO organised a cartoon demonstration and hosted a public forum against Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal's intention to eliminate all political cartoons from NCERT textbooks. Abhishek Mande listens in.
Four persons allegedly involved in the ransacking of the office of former National Council Of Educational Research And Training advisor Suhas Palshikar in the wake of the row over B R Ambedkar's cartoon have been sent to two days police custody by a court in Pune.
The comments by the minister came following a controversy over the reduction of syllabus by the CBSE due to the COVID-19 situation, with the Opposition alleging that chapters on India's democracy and plurality are being "dropped" to propagate a particular ideology.
Disale announced that he will be sharing 50 per cent of his prize money with his fellow finalists to support their "incredible work".
Macmillan India imprint Full Marks has come out with a support website for students of class VI-XII mainly following NCERT books that can be accessed by using a scratch card.
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in association with Commonwealth of Learning, Canada offers International Diploma in Guidance and Counselling - a one year Diploma Course for training of professionals in guidance and counselling, combining distance/online and face-to-face modes.
According to officials, the board will inform students about the schedule 10 days in advance.
'Hear2Read' -- an open-source Text To Speech (TTS) software that offers audio books in Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu -- is a first of its kind initiative in the country.
Regional Institute of Education (Mysore) invites applications on plain paper from eligible candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes.
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Have we been allowed to forget Partition? Isn't Partition the reason many Hindus cannot bring themselves to trust Muslims? So many Muslims born after 1947 have told me with anguish: "How long will we be blamed for Partition?" notes Jyoti Punwani.
Easy but tricky -- that is how the students described the question papers as the examinations for class X and class XII under Central Board of Secondary Education started on Saturday across the country and abroad. For the first time, 20 per cent of the questions required 'high-order thinking skills' as prescribed by the National Curriculum Framework, the guiding document for preparation of NCERT textbooks.
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The students, from various schools in Delhi, carried placards with slogans like 'No change of books in mid-session' and 'No politics in education'.
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The National Council of Educational Research and Training will provide 100 scholarships to talented students who have dropped out of school due to financial problems.
"We at the Arya Samaj appeal to all not to use the terms `saffronisation' or `desaffronisation' when referring to the\n\nchanges in the NCERT textbooks, as the colour is symbolic of sanyas," Agnivesh told reporters
There are allegations of communalisation of NCERT history textbooks introduced by the previous BJP-led coalition government in the current year's school syllabus.
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The CBSE had announced that it had rationalised the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 for the 2020-21 session by up to 30 per cent to make up for the academic loss caused due to COVID-19. However, it was the decision to drop topics related to Social Sciences which drew sharp reaction from opposition parties like the Congress, Left, Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena.
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