Reacting to the recommendations of a panel of the NCERT to replace the name 'India with Bharat' in school textbooks, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan said that it is the constitution which uses both words--India and Bharat.
Kerala education minister V Sivankutty on Thursday said that the state government will not accept an NCERT high-level committee's recommendation that 'Bharat' be used instead of 'India' as the name of the country in school textbooks.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tarun Chugh on Thursday hailed the NCERT panel's recommendations on replacing 'India' with Bharat', stating that 'Bharat' is in our DNA.
Amid huge uproar over NCERT recommendation of replacing 'India' with 'Bharat', West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu termed the decision as 'ridiculous' and 'bizarre' and called it a political decision.
Reacting to the recommendations of a panel of the NCERT to replace the name 'India with Bharat' in school textbooks, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that 'Bharat' is a matter of pride.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday accused the Centre of seeking to confuse people after reports in sections of media that an NCERT panel had recommended replacing 'India' with 'Bharat' in school textbooks
Speaking to ANI Binoy Viswam said that the regressive recommendations made by a high-level committee set up by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) are against the foundational values of our Republic and go against the visions of our Constitution.
In a significant development amid the ongoing push for indigenisation of military weapon systems, the made-in-India Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Mark1A would be fitted with the 'Uttam' radar and the 'Angad' electronic warfare suite, replacing the imported systems installed previously.
"The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to establish Himachal Pradesh Rajya Chayan Aayog to conduct examinations for the recruitment of various Group-C posts under the state government, PSUs, boards, corporations, and local bodies in place of disbanded HPSSC Hamirpur," said the official
Welcoming the move of replacing the word "India" with "Bharat" on the invitations sent by President Draupadi Murmu to heads of state, government and Chief Ministers of States for an official banquet on the occasion of the G20 Summit to be held in New Delhi, Union Minister of State for Home A