New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren raised several long-pending issues concerning his state and sought the Centre’s support at the meeting of the NITI Aayog Governing Council, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, here on Thursday.Soren urged the Centre to release pending funds under the Jal Jeevan Mission and clear outstanding dues of around Rs 1.36 lakh crore owed by coal companies to the state.He also called for simplification of land acquisition procedures an…
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New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, conveying concerns raised by parents regarding the mandatory implementation of the three-language policy for CBSE Class 9 students during the ongoing academic session and urging the Centre to reconsider its immediate rollout. In his letter to the Prime Minister, Singh said he was forwarding a representation submitted by a group of concerned parents of CBSE Class IX students who have …
Patna, May 25 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary has welcomed the decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to include the Maithili language in the curriculum from the academic session 2026-27.In a social media post shared on Monday, the Bihar Chief Minister described the move as historic, stating that it would provide greater recognition to Mithila’s cultural heritage and mother tongue within the educational system.Choudhary said the inclusion of Maithili as a moth…
New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) The Union Education Ministry on Saturday flagged off a group of 56 students participating in the Sakura Science Programme 2026 in Japan, an official said on Saturday. From May 24 to 30, 56 school students and four supervisors from India will visit Japan as part of the Sakura Science Programme, alongside participants from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, an official of the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL) said.The flag-off ceremony, held at NCERT in New…
Bengaluru, May 22 (IANS) The Karnataka government has urged the Centre and the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to introduce a dedicated chapter on groundwater conservation and management in the national school curriculum, citing growing concerns over water scarcity and climate change.Announcing the development on Friday, Karnataka Minor Irrigation and Science & Technology Minister, N.S. Boseraju, said the State has formally written to the Central Government seek…
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), May 10 (IANS) The district administration in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh has cracked down on the sale of fake NCERT textbooks and registered FIRs against three bookshops under the Copyright Act, officials said on Sunday. The action follows the detection of the sale of counterfeit Class 9 NCERT books in the city.The shops named in the FIRs are Sangam Book Depot, Gyan Bhandar-1, and Gyan Bhandar-2.The action has caused a stir among book traders in the city. The district admini…
Mumbai, May 1 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on the 67th Foundation Day of Maharashtra on Friday claimed that the Marathi people were being cornered by “Maharashtra-haters” and “subservient” local rulers. It called upon the Marathis to once again raise the cry of Maharashtra Dharma to protect their identity and pride against this perceived “national conspiracy”. The Thackeray camp in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, said that even today, rickshaw drivers in Mumbai refuse…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday launched a CBSE curriculum on Computational Thinking (CT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for students of Classes 3 to 8, to be introduced from the 2026-27 academic session.The initiative, themed “AI for Education, AI in Education”, aims to build foundational digital and analytical skills among young learners by integrating future-ready competencies at an early stage.The launch event in New Delhi was attended…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has busted a racket of pirated copies of NCERT textbooks and arrested a warehouse owner while seizing more than 5,000 counterfeit books during a raid in north Delhi, officials said on Friday.Acting on a secret tip-off, a team of the Anti-Robbery and Snatching Cell (ARSC) of the Crime Branch conducted a raid at the warehouse located in Shahbad Daulatpur village and recovered 5,011 pirated copies of NCERT books meant for students from Class I …
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Tuesday tendered an unconditional and unqualified public apology over the controversial chapter referring to corruption in the judiciary in its now-withdrawn Class 8 Social Science textbook.Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing scheduled for Wednesday, NCERT said in a press release shared on the social media platform X that the textbook titled ‘Exploring Society: India and Beyond,’ Grade 8 (Part II), inc…