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SC-Banned NCERT Class 8 Social Science Textbook Revised, Likely To Be Released Within A week
The NCERT had withdrawn the Class 8 Social Science textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part II), in March following directions from the Supreme Court, which imposed a blanket ban on its publication, reprinting, and digital circulation.
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Academics Write To President Over NCERT Textbook Ban, Flag 'Threat To Academic Freedom'
NCERT Book Row: The appeal comes in the backdrop of the Supreme Court's February 26 order banning a chapter titled "The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society", which the court found "offending" and "prima-facie intended towards maligning the Indian Judiciary".
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"Book Withdrawn": NCERT's Public Apology Over Judiciary Chapter Row
Two weeks after the Supreme Court imposed a blanket ban on a social science textbook with a controversial chapter on the judiciary, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) today issued an unconditional public apology.
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NCERT Urges Individuals, Institutions To Return Supreme Court-Banned Textbook
Acting on the court's directions, NCERT has asked all individuals and organisations in possession of the textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Social Science Grade 8 Part 2, to return it immediately.
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Banned NCERT Book Prepared By Panel With Lawyer, No Legal Review Provision
The NCERT's Class 8 Social Science textbook, which was withdrawn after a controversy over a reference to corruption in the judiciary, was prepared by a panel of subject experts that included a lawyer, officials said
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'Thankful To Media For Bringing Issue Into Public': Top Court On NCERT Row
The Supreme Court on Thursday thanked the media for bringing to the fore the issue concerning NCERT's Class 8 social science book containing "offending" contents on corruption in the judiciary.
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"Heads Must Roll": Court Bans NCERT Book With Controversial Judiciary Chapter
The Supreme Court demanded accountability Thursday as it outraged over a section on 'corruption in the judiciary' in a NCERT Social Science textbook for Class VIII students.
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Taliban Bans Books Written By Women In Afghan Universities, 18 Courses Dropped
A total of 679 textbooks, including 140 written by women and 310 by Iranian authors or publishers, have been prohibited.
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Books Banned In US Prisons: "The Art Of War", "Prison Ramen" And More
Tens of thousands of books are banned from US prisons, a new report said Wednesday, including a primer on drawing, a book about tying knots and textbooks teaching inmates foreign languages.
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Kerala May Teach Syllabus Scrapped By NCERT, Especially On Mahatma Gandhi
Students in Kerala are likely to be taught the portions that the NCERT had deleted from its class 11 and 12 textbooks, including those pertaining to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the ban on RSS.
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"Shouldn't Be Blown Out Of Proportion": NCERT On Missing Text On Gandhi
Amid controversy over certain content related to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination being dropped from its textbooks without any notification, NCERT chief Dinesh Saklani on Wednesday said it could have been an "oversight".
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Texts On Gandhi, Ban On RSS Dropped From Class 12 NCERT Books
"Gandhiji's death had magical effect on communal situation in the country", "Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists" are among the texts missing from the class 12 political science textbook.
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"Whitewashing With Vengeance": Congress On Deletions From NCERT Books
Congress hit out at government over some texts missing from NCERT's new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking right-wing and the ban on RSS for some time, and called it "whitewashing with a vengeance".
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Execution Of GST "Textbook Example" Of How Not To Do It: Yashwant Sinha
BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha delivered a fresh instalment of biting criticism of the economic policies of the Narendra Modi-led government on Thursday and said the implementation of the new national tax GST was a "textbook example" of how it shouldn't have been introduced.
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Curd, Fennel And Banyan Branch: Ayurvedic Prescription To Conceive A Son
While mystery persists over the process to "purify womb" and get a "super baby" - over which a tussle is on between activists and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Kolkata -- an Ayurveda textbook has revealed an intriguing process to conceive a boy.
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SC-Banned NCERT Class 8 Social Science Textbook Revised, Likely To Be Released Within A week
The NCERT had withdrawn the Class 8 Social Science textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Part II), in March following directions from the Supreme Court, which imposed a blanket ban on its publication, reprinting, and digital circulation.
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Academics Write To President Over NCERT Textbook Ban, Flag 'Threat To Academic Freedom'
NCERT Book Row: The appeal comes in the backdrop of the Supreme Court's February 26 order banning a chapter titled "The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society", which the court found "offending" and "prima-facie intended towards maligning the Indian Judiciary".
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"Book Withdrawn": NCERT's Public Apology Over Judiciary Chapter Row
Two weeks after the Supreme Court imposed a blanket ban on a social science textbook with a controversial chapter on the judiciary, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) today issued an unconditional public apology.
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NCERT Urges Individuals, Institutions To Return Supreme Court-Banned Textbook
Acting on the court's directions, NCERT has asked all individuals and organisations in possession of the textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Social Science Grade 8 Part 2, to return it immediately.
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Banned NCERT Book Prepared By Panel With Lawyer, No Legal Review Provision
The NCERT's Class 8 Social Science textbook, which was withdrawn after a controversy over a reference to corruption in the judiciary, was prepared by a panel of subject experts that included a lawyer, officials said
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'Thankful To Media For Bringing Issue Into Public': Top Court On NCERT Row
The Supreme Court on Thursday thanked the media for bringing to the fore the issue concerning NCERT's Class 8 social science book containing "offending" contents on corruption in the judiciary.
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"Heads Must Roll": Court Bans NCERT Book With Controversial Judiciary Chapter
The Supreme Court demanded accountability Thursday as it outraged over a section on 'corruption in the judiciary' in a NCERT Social Science textbook for Class VIII students.
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Taliban Bans Books Written By Women In Afghan Universities, 18 Courses Dropped
A total of 679 textbooks, including 140 written by women and 310 by Iranian authors or publishers, have been prohibited.
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Books Banned In US Prisons: "The Art Of War", "Prison Ramen" And More
Tens of thousands of books are banned from US prisons, a new report said Wednesday, including a primer on drawing, a book about tying knots and textbooks teaching inmates foreign languages.
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Kerala May Teach Syllabus Scrapped By NCERT, Especially On Mahatma Gandhi
Students in Kerala are likely to be taught the portions that the NCERT had deleted from its class 11 and 12 textbooks, including those pertaining to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the ban on RSS.
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"Shouldn't Be Blown Out Of Proportion": NCERT On Missing Text On Gandhi
Amid controversy over certain content related to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination being dropped from its textbooks without any notification, NCERT chief Dinesh Saklani on Wednesday said it could have been an "oversight".
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Texts On Gandhi, Ban On RSS Dropped From Class 12 NCERT Books
"Gandhiji's death had magical effect on communal situation in the country", "Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists" are among the texts missing from the class 12 political science textbook.
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"Whitewashing With Vengeance": Congress On Deletions From NCERT Books
Congress hit out at government over some texts missing from NCERT's new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking right-wing and the ban on RSS for some time, and called it "whitewashing with a vengeance".
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Execution Of GST "Textbook Example" Of How Not To Do It: Yashwant Sinha
BJP veteran Yashwant Sinha delivered a fresh instalment of biting criticism of the economic policies of the Narendra Modi-led government on Thursday and said the implementation of the new national tax GST was a "textbook example" of how it shouldn't have been introduced.
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Curd, Fennel And Banyan Branch: Ayurvedic Prescription To Conceive A Son
While mystery persists over the process to "purify womb" and get a "super baby" - over which a tussle is on between activists and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Kolkata -- an Ayurveda textbook has revealed an intriguing process to conceive a boy.
