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Odisha Govt to provide free textbooks to students of all Odia medium schoo
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
"The steps to provide free textbooks will be taken up under 5T initiative of State state government and will be implemented in the academic year 2024–25," a press statement from the Chief Minister's Office said.
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EU Commissioner commits to PA funding freeze over textbook incitement
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The European Union official who oversees aid to the Palestinian Authority has voiced support for conditioning the release of funds on the removal of incitement and antisemitism from P.A. textbooks.
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Introducing ZuAI: AI Powered Personal Tutor for Students in India
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], June 22: Zu Technologies, a Bangalore-based startup, today announced the launch of ZuAI, an AI-powered personal learning tutor which is aligned with the Indian CBSE, ICSE & State Board curriculum. The interactive learning tool personalizes the learning proc
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Nothing of this kind happened: Dharmendra Pradhan on 'deletion' of Darwin
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Union Minister for Education and Skill Development, Dharmendra Pradhan, has clarified that there have been "no changes" regarding the alleged removal of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from the 10th-grade textbook.
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Hedgewar, Savarkar dropped: Changes in Karnataka syllabus sparks row
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
While a lesson on Hedgewar and a poem on Savarkar is out, a letter written by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has found its place in the social science textbook.
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"Nitin Gadkari wants to please RSS because...": Congress leader Gourav Val
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Nitin Gadkari criticised the Karnataka government's proposal to revise school textbooks in the State and said that it is "unfortunate" that the chapters on Dr Hedgewar and Swatantra Veer Savarkar have been removed.
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Karnataka textbooks row: If BJP has guts, they should take Savarkar's name
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Reacting sharply to Bharatiya Janata Party's uproar after the Karnataka government dropped chapters on Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar from school textbooks, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole on Friday said that if the BJP has guts then they must take the name of Sa
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Assam: Books in line with new education policy despatched on Friday
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu on Friday flagged off vehicles carrying textbooks under the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) programme under the new education policy for children of Class 1 to 3.
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No merit in hue and cry by academicians regarding NCERT textbooks revision
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) recently dropped the full chapter on Periodic Classification of Elements, a full chapter on Democracy and Diversity, a full chapter on Challenges to Democracy, and a full page on Political Parties from the newly released textbooks
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Name withdrawal 'spectacle' disrupts curriculum updation process: Academic
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Hitting back at academicians for withdrawing their names as advisors from the NCERT, the statement said the "name-withdrawal spectacle" is just to "capture media attention". They "seem to have forgotten that textbooks are an outcome of collective intellectual engagement and rigorous efforts,
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BJP MLA slams Karnataka Congress govt's "hasty decision" to drop RSS' Hedg
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"These kinds of hasty decisions are not appreciated. Dr Hedgewar is a founder of national cultural building, nationalism...He was a medical practitioner with a good background," the former state minister told ANI.
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"Congress lying through their teeth...," Rajeev Chandrasekhar after Karnat
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"A lot of government properties have been handed over to many institutions belonging to the Sangh Parivar. So, we have to look at all those things, to see if they have been done properly, legally and what we can do on those issues," Karnataka Minister Gundu Rao said.
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