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Watch: CBSE's new elective teaches regressive ideas on caste and gender
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NCERT textbooks to include Buddha's teachings: HRD Minister Javadekar
•The teachings of Gautama Buddha will soon be included in NCERT textbooks and school curriculum as the Mahatma's teachings are "ideas of life", Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday.
Controversy erupts in Karnataka over official direction to buy book on Siddaramaiah
•An official direction, authorising government and aided schools to purchase a book on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's political life and achievements for their libraries by the Education department has stirred a controversy.
NaMo in school textbooks? PM Modi says no, thank you
Fp Staff •Modi-worship is now being taken to the next level. The states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan all want to inculcate Modi's life story into their school curriculum.
Maharashtra Class X textbook gifts Arunachal to China, to be changed
Tanushree •The Maharashtra State Education Board has promised to rectify the mistake in the Class X textbooks which shows a substantial part of Arunachal Pradesh in China.
University textbook declares Pranab as 14th President
Fp Archives •Though Presidential polls are yet to held, Gondwana University has already described UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee as "the 14th President of the country" in a just-published textbook.
No place for political cartoons in school textbooks: Sibal
Fp Archives •"We believe textbooks are not the place where these issues should be influencing impressionable minds. That's our position," the Minister told reporters.
Pranab promises cartoon withdrawal, BJP wants Sibal's head
Fp Staff •The Finance Minister has promised MPs that all objectionable material in textbooks will be removed and the offending textbooks will not be distributed.
Why Apple's iBooks 2 won't replace the schoolbag
Fp Archives •Apple Inc on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.
Why Apple's iBooks 2 won't replace the schoolbag
Fp Archives •Apple Inc on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.