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NCERT as the national regulatory body of academic education in schools almost frequently features in the latest national news following the controversial publications and publication oriented mistakes. In the recent years NCERT has surfaced many a times in the latest news of controversies regarding the depiction or false information in the school book publication about several respected national figures like Bhagat Singh, B.R. Ambedkar, etc. NCERT or National Council of Educational Research and Training is the apex research organization in the field of academic education which is a government of India organization that is founded to look after the academic study and research related supervision and study materials in schools across the country. NCERT provides technical, academic and training support to the schools across the country through various constituent organizations like National Institute of Education, Central Institute of Education and various regional institutes of education. Functions of NCERT mainly include research, development, publication, training and exchange program regarding the academic education in the schools. For betterment of the education and the training in the present technological age NCERT has started to introduce corporate presence in various matters related to the development of the educational publication and training.
New Delhi, May 31 (ANI): The HRD Ministry has decided to set up a seven-member task force under the chairmanship of Ex-Director IIT Prof. Sanjay Dhande to prepare a blue print for creating a special purpose vehicle to take the concept of National Testing Agency (NTA) forward.
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The human resource development ministry Friday announced setting up of a task force to formulate a blueprint of a uniform entrance examination for admissions to different branches of higher learning.
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Indian government's human resource development (HRD) ministry has advised state governments to promote gender sensitisation by re-examining text books and curriculum and introducing gender module for teachers during the annual in-service training.
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Adding creative arts in different aspects of education and routine curriculum would help students grasp their lessons better, experts said here Tuesday.
Guwahati, March 14 (IANS) The NCERT has assured to include the life and works of Assam's Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Sankardeva in curriculum, a civil society group member said Thursday.
New Delhi, Dec. 4 (ANI): To create awareness amongst general public, especially school children and high-risk groups regarding proper hygiene, safe water supply, safe sexual practices, safe screened blood transfusions and vaccination, the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) celebrated its 15th Hepatitis Day in association with Amity at the ILBS, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
Chennai, Nov 16 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Friday requested the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to remove objectionable references to the Nadar community in the Class IX social studies textbook of the NCERT.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Nov.15 (ANI): Police here resorted to baton charge and lobbing of tear gas shells to disperse members of the Nadar community who were taking part in a protest on Thursday.
Chennai, Sep 7 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Friday protested to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the nationwide common entrance exam for Dental Council of India (DCI) courses and urged that the state be exempted from the new system.
New Delhi, Aug.15 (ANI): Promising to improve the quality of teaching for children through a system of continuous assessment, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, saidon Wednesday, that he was proud of the fact that almost all children in the age group 6-14 years were being admitted to schools.
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) As India maintains the dubious distinction of having one of the worst road safety records in the world, reflecting the lack of a culture in "road use behaviour", road safety is belatedly being set to be included in the school syllabus, but not as a "boring" subject.
Chennai, June 13 (IANS) A cartoon lampooning the anti-Hindi agitation that rocked Tamil Nadu in 1965 has united the political parties in the state to demand its removal from the class 12 NCERT textbook.
Chennai, June 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday urged the central government to remove from a Class 12 NCERT textbook a cartoon about the anti-Hindi agitation that rocked the state in 1965 as it defames Dravidian movement leaders like Periyar, C.N. Annadurai and others.
Chennai, June 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday urged the central government to remove from a Class 12 NCERT textbook the cartoon about the anti-Hindi agitation that rocked the state in 1965 as it defames Dravidian movement leaders like Periyar, C.N. Annadurai and others.
New Delhi, June 12 (ANI): Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said the NCERT has already constituted a committee on May 14 under the chairmanship of Prof. S.K. Thorat, Chairman, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) to review the classes IX - XII Social Science/Political Science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material in them and to provide suggestions for alternatives to be placed in the textbooks.
Chennai June 9 (IANS) DMK president M. Karunanidhi Saturday urged the central government to remove from a textbook the controversial cartoon lampooning the anti-Hindi agitation that raged in Tamil Nadu in 1965 as it hurts people's sentiments.
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Eminent journalists, writers and cartoonists gathered at the capital's Press Club of India (PCI) Friday for a discussion on the controversy stirred by famed cartoonist Shankar's cartoon finding its way into National Council of Education, Research and Training (NCERT) school textbooks.
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) With quota politics hotting up, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called an all-party meeting May 23 to discuss the way forward on giving reservations to the Scheduled Castes (SC) and the Scheduled Tribes (ST) in job promotions, an issue mired in controversy, sources said Friday.
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings 'who were scared to laugh'. With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race?
New Delhi, May 16 (ANI): While the race for India's next President gathers pace, Renewable and Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said all the party leaders are being taken into wide consultation over the issue and would support whosoever will be selected by the Congress
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Congress Tuesday said it was all for freedom of expression, but cartoons "denigrating" politicians in NCERT books was a serious issue and it needed to be debated before the government could take a view on it.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) A artist-activist group Tuesday said the government should not withdraw a textbook cartoon featuring Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar under political pressure.
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday said that freedom of expression is "contextual".
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Members in the Lok Sabha Monday united in criticising cartoons in NCERT books allegedly denigrating political leaders, particularly the one on B.R. Ambedkar, with the government promising that all objectionable material would be removed and the role of NCERT advisers probed.
Amid uproar in the Parliament over Dalit icon B R Ambedkar's controversial cartoon on NCERT's textbook, government has announced that no cartoon of politicians will be published in the textbook and pledges that 60 year old ?cartoon' of Ambedkar would be deleted from the books, reports say.......
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) A day after a cartoon featuring B.R. Ambedkar was withdrawn following uproar in the parliament, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Shivanand Tiwari Sunday said taking away "right to disagree" was harming democracy.
Pune, May 12 (IANS) Republican Party of India activists ransacked the office of an NCERT advisor, Suhas Palshikar, here Saturday, a day after he resigned in the wake of a row over a cartoon on B.R. Ambedkar in a school textbook, police said. Three people were detained.
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) A cartoon on Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar in an NCERT textbook rocked parliament Friday, prompting the government to apologise and order removal of the "objectionable" sketch.
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The school textbook cartoon of B.R. Ambedkar which created a furore in parliament Friday was sketched by cartoonist Keshav Shankar Pillai in the 1950s while the Constitution was being framed, said a human resource development ministry official.
New Delhi, May 11 (ANI): Charging the ruling Congress Party of committing mistakes and then apologizing for it, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday condemned the cartoon of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar being published in NCERT textbook, saying there is no forgiveness for some heinous crimes.
Both the houses of the Parliament Friday rocked over a controversial cartoon on Dalit icon B R Ambedkar published in an NCERT textbook. The opposition and even some congress leaders created uproar in the houses and asked resignation from Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal........
New Delhi, May 11 (ANI): Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday assured that Ambedkar cartoon will be removed from the NCERT textbooks, and apologized to the nation.
New Delhi, May 11 (ANI): Amid the ongoing row over the publication of a derogatory cartoon of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in NCERT textbooks, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday said this reflected a particular mindset.
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) A cartoon on Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar in an NCERT textbook rocked both houses of parliament Friday, prompting the government to apologise and order the removal of the "objectionable" sketch.
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) A cartoon on Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar in an NCERT textbook rocked both houses of parliament Friday, prompting the government to apologise and order the removal of the "objectionable" sketch.
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) A cartoon on Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar reportedly printed in an NCERT textbook set off a storm in both houses of parliament Friday, with some members saying it was insulting and should be withdrawn.
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) A cartoon on Dalit icon Dr. B.R. Ambedkar printed in an NCERT textbook created a storm in the Lok Sabha Friday with some members saying it was insulting and should be withdrawn.
Lucknow, April 26 (IANS) Upside down pictures of India's national flag, chapters to teach the Hindi alphabet that say 'b' for 'bomb' and 'ch' for 'chaku' (knife)...These glaring anomalies have surfaced in two textbooks used in some Uttar Pradesh schools.
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Expressing anguish over the government's failure to print and distribute free books to over 18 lakh poor students in state-run schools, the Delhi High Court Friday sought an explanation for the delay.
Washington, Oct 7 (ANI): Taking a big leap in how oral medicines are administered, Indian scientists have shown that producing nanoscopic crystals of a pharmaceutical product can allow the medication to be absorbed by the gut even if the drug is not soluble in water.
New Delhi, June 15 (ANI): World chess champion Viswanathan Anand unveiled a mobile science lab, portable learning solution, that integrates science in classrooms in New Delhi on Tuesday .
New Delhi, Feb.2 (ANI): A new web site has been launched for civil service aspirants.
New Delhi June25 (ANI): The Union Human Resource Ministry is considering to scrap the board examination for class 10 students.
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Owing to the growing number of human rights abuses, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is planning to introduce human rights as an optional subject in schools.
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Following yet another shocking incident of a teacher severely beating up students in Delhi, an official of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) said Friday that they are trying to revamp their teachers' training course to include human rights education.
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New Delhi, Jan 5 (ANI): The Children's Science Congress opened today at the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), providing an opportunity to hundreds of students to have a glimpse of the Science and Technology scenario in the country.
Three schools from Delhi have been selected for the Centre for Science and Environment's (CSE) Gobar Times National Green School Awards for 2008.
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Inclusiveness is the cornerstone of India's school education system and no child, no matter how differently-abled, will be left out, parliament was informed Monday.
Shimla, Nov 25 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Governor Prabha Rau Tuesday stressed the need for developing scientific temper among school children so they could become better citizens and think and act in a more rational and scientific manner.
Gurgaon, Nov 15 (ANI/Business Wire India): The global environmental concern requires urgent attention, and education plays a vital role in sensitising the future by providing proper information to involve them in the process of combating its negative effects.
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) The Congress party Friday launched an offensive against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the alleged involvement of Servicemen in the Malegaon blasts, and asked whether it had tried to 'saffronise' key institutions in the country.
On the Appeal of Aligarh Muslim University teacher Association, teachers of AMU have decided to go on two-day strike on Oct 22 and 23.
National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), on the advice of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has decided to revise
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