A competition on yoga would be organised next year where the best performing student will be given a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Friday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a "great economist", who she said has given a positive direction to the nation's economy.
'It encourages a shadow industry, the coaching industry.' 'Only those students who have the resources to go for coaching, benefit.'
The first attempt of JEE Main 2019 will be conducted from January 6 to 20, 2019.
A group of persons on Saturday ransacked the office of Prof Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as National Council Of Educational Research And Training adviser in the wake of the row over cartoon of B R Ambedkar in school text books.
There are allegations of communalisation of NCERT history textbooks introduced by the previous BJP-led coalition government in the current year's school syllabus.
Anurag Tiwari, national academic director, medical, Aakash+BYJU'S, answers queries from students who will appear for the exam the first time this year.
Keep in mind that JEE Main is all about speed and accuracy, advises Nitin Arora.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 students, from various schools in Delhi, carried placards with slogans like 'No change of books in mid-session' and 'No politics in education'.
The government also intends to constitute a state-level 'yoga cell' of yoga experts.
Millions of Indian children lack access to online education as they do not have smartphones, computers or an Internet connection.
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'Is there any harm in studying the history of India? This is not a regressive stand. The Vedas and Upanishads should be included in our textbooks,' says Dinanath Batra.
According to officials, the board will inform students about the schedule 10 days in advance.
M Gayatri of New Green Fields school, New Delhi has topped the class 12 CBSE exam in the country securing 99.2 per cent.
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.
Now candidates can appear for NEET any number of times.
Despite the prime minister's speech extolling teaching as a profession, very few would take it up.
Clearly, all of the NEET coaching classes are beyond the capacity of a child from a BPL family.
In an online chat with readers, Amit Jaiswal, head of academics, MockBank.com answered queries on how to prepare for the IBPS Bank PO entrance examination.
His resignation was even questioned in Rajya Sabha with Congress wanting a clarification.
The Bharatiya Shiksha Niti Aayog will study the present education system and suggest corrective steps to make it Bharat-centric. G Sreedathan reports
A lot of student friendly changes were introduced this year.
In an online chat, Anil Nagar, Director, Bank Power Institute, Delhi addressed questions on how to prepare for the IBPS Bank PO exam.
During the 90-minute programme, the HRD minister rejected the charge of saffronisation of education.
Salman Khan of Khan Academy explains how he is pioneering the cause of free online education.
The debate on Sardar Patel's legacy is less about the Sardar and more about the acute sense of threat felt by the Delhi establishment at the rise of Narendra Modi and questions he has raised about the disproportionate share of credit given to a single family, says Colonel (retd) Anil Athale.
Historian Romila Thapar says you can't bring history into faith.
Following her spat, 'Aunty National' Irani took to Facebook to speak out against her detractors. Here's the Facebook post in response to her critics which Rediff.com represents verbatim:
