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Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks

Government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.

Al Jazeera

History deletions: Here's what students would never learn about history from textbooks

NCERT has dropped key history developments from textbooks

The Times of India

TV Newsance 208: Rewriting history, and removing Mughals, in NCERT textbooks

This week, we saw Arnab Goswami cheer as we found that the NCERT has made key changes to political science and history textbooks, a story broken by the ‘Innndian’ Express. Certain chapters and parts related to Mughal history were removed from these books, which led Arnab to ask why anybody…

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Indian government accused of rewriting history after edits to schoolbooks

References to Muslim rulers, deadly riots connected to PM and Gandhi’s dislike of Hindu nationalism removed

The Guardian - UK

Indian opposition decries new schoolbook's omission of Hindu rage at Mahatma Gandhi

Indian opposition parties on Wednesday condemned the removal from some schoolbooks of references to how independence hero Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity angered some Hindu extremists and led to his assassination.

Reuters

Edit-E-Azam: Editorial cartoons take on NCERT’s ‘revisions’ to textbooks

The Indian Express has a very impactful front page this morning – perhaps one of its most impactful pages since the Emergency.

Newslaundry

Factory printing fake NCERT books busted in UP’s Bareilly, over 16k books recovered

BAREILLY: The officials of NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) from Delhi along with local police busted a fake book printing unit in Bhojipura area of Bareilly on Friday night and seized around 16,580 textbooks.

The Times of India

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Delhi child rights panel flags 'violent masculinity' in textbook, asks NCERT to modify or replace it

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights has asked NCERT to modify or replace a chapter in Class IX English textbook, claiming that it normalises "violent masculinity, depicts women in "stereotypical ways and teaches children to accept violence at home".

The Times of India

NCERT stalls National Talent Search Examination scheme

National Talent Search Examination is funded by the Ministry of Education and hosted by the NCERT

The Hindu

NCERT issues guidelines to schools for early identification of mental health problems in students

According to the manual, every school or groups of schools should establish a mental health advisory panel

The Hindu

Basic skills poor in Hindi, but poorer in regional languages: NCERT

Survey provides baseline for government’s NIPUN mission to improve foundational learning

The Hindu

Exams, results major cause of anxiety among school students: NCERT survey

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) surveyed over 3.79 lakh students from 36 states and UTs.

The Hindu

Medical aspirants point out errors in NEET answer key

Claim question were vague, had concept errors

The Hindu

Gujarat riots, Mughal courts to be taught in Kerala schools

The NCERT had drawn flak for removing textbook content citing overlapping with similar content, irrelevant portions, or that could be learned by self-learning or peer-learning

The Hindu

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Gang printing fake NCERT books busted, 4 arrested in Meerut

MEERUT: Police on Wednesday busted a gang involved in printing fake NCERT books and arrested four of its alleged members in Brahmpuri, Meerut. They also recovered 3,470 books along with several four-wheelers from the spot.

The Hindu

Eggs, meat lead to lifestyle disorders, says NEP position paper

Serving different foods to the same graders will lead to an imbalance in the nutrient distribution among children, says paper on health and well-being

The Hindu

Citing overlap, NCERT removes portions on 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, Mughal courts from class 12 books

Many of these changes were announced earlier this year when the Central Board of Secondary Education rationalised its syllabi in April

The Hindu

CET: Biology paper easy, say students

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Karnataka: Dissolving committee is an eyewash, restore old books, says activists & writers

BENGALURU: Activists, educationists, writers and students, who have been opposing the revised textbooks, on Saturday termed the process of dissolving the Rohith Chakrathirtha Committee an "eyewash" and stuck to to their demand of getting the old textbooks restored.

The Hindu

Opposition to CUET will ‘badly affect’ the future of T.N. Students, says Balagurusamy

‘It is an insult to say students cannot ace the test’

The Hindu

Proper planning and smart work key to cracking Civils: experts

Seminar on ‘Career in Civils’, organised jointly by The Hindu Future India Club and Narayana IAS Academy

The Times of India

UT education dept moves to plug book supply gaps

Poviet Kaur

The Hindu

Withdraw Common University Entrance Test immediately, Stalin urges PM

CUET a definitive prelude to centralise higher education by the Union government, charges Stalin

The Hindu

Delhi University intake to be based on Common University Entrance Test scores

Class XII Board exam marks no longer matter

The Hindu

Court dismisses PIL plea to knock off Samacheer Kalvi and adopt NCERT syllabus in State Board schools

The judges said it was for the government, and not the court, to decide on the right syllabus for school students

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