NCERT begins examination of recommendations on car

Last Updated: Thursday, July 5, 2012, 00:30

The NCERT began an exercise to examine the recommendation of a committee which has suggested deletion of certain cartoons from textbooks.

NCERT to examine recommendations of panel on cartoon issue

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 23:32

A textbook review committee of NCERT will on Wednesday will examine the recommendations of a panel which has suggested removal of certain cartoons on politicians from a political science book.

Not just Ambedkar, no Nehru-Gandhi cartoons please

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 09:12

The NCERT committee that examined cartoons in school textbooks has recommended the removal of cartoons and caricatures bearing negative references to politicians and bureaucrats.

NCERT panel says not all toons should be removed

Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2012, 18:12

A committee set up to examine the cartoons in NCERT textbooks is understood to have recommended removal of some "objectionable" toons.

School textbooks to impart lessons on tax compliance

Last Updated: Monday, June 11, 2012, 20:52

The government will sensitise children about the importance of taxes in nation building through text books.

Protest over depiction of anti-Hindi agitation in textbooks

Last Updated: Friday, June 8, 2012, 12:11

The anti-Hindi agitation played a significant role in the Dravidian movement and was one of the reasons for the DMK capturing power in 1967,toppling the then Congress government.

SC/ST wants criminal case over Ambedkar cartoon row

Last Updated: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 20:07

All-India Confederation of SC/ST organisations, which met here, demanded strict action against officials involved in the publication of the cartoon.

Activists, cartoonists protest removal of Ambedkar toon

Last Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012, 20:58

Activists and cartoonists on Friday came on a single platform to protest against the removal of the Ambedkar toon from textbooks and lamented that MPs who objected to it did not read a "single line" of the book.

Panel set up to examine pol science textbooks

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 21:22

The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman S K Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT`s political science textbooks for schools.

NC MP strikes discordant note during cartoon debate

Last Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012, 17:47

National Conference member struck a discordant note saying politicians themselves were giving cartoonists the chance to paint them wrongly.

Ambedkar cartoon row: 4 sent to police custody

Last Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012, 13:01

Four persons allegedly involved in the ransacking of the office of former NCERT advisor Suhas Palshikar have been sent to two days police custody by a court.