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panchayat's instructions advisory, not Talibani diktat: All India Jat Arakshan Samiti-Ashish Tripathi

-The Times of India LUCKNOW: After Bhartiya Kisan Union(BKU), the All India Jat Arakshan Samiti(AIJAS) has also supported the diktat of the panchayat at the Asra village in Baghpat. The diktat puts restrictions on the movement of girls and women. A meeting was held in the village and it was decided that a Mahapanchayat will be held on July 21 in which khap panchayats from other parts of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan...

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Cartoon row simmers

-The Telegraph A panel that approved NCERT textbooks in 2006 has expressed “dissatisfaction” at a review committee report suggesting 21 controversial cartoons should be deleted. The national monitoring committee (NMC), co-chaired by academics such as Mrinal Miri and G.P. Deshpande, had approved all new school textbooks in 2006. But a few cartoons in some political science textbooks had drawn criticism from politicians. The NCERT had then set up a committee under the Indian...

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NCERT to drop only 2 cartoons out of 21 from IX-XII textbooks-Dipak K Dash

-The Times of India With an expert panel rejecting the SK Thorat committee's recommendations for large scale deletion of cartoons of politicians from school textbooks, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is likely to do away with only two illustrations from political science texts for classes IX to XII. A formal response to the Thorat report is being prepared, but NCERT is expected to delete two cartoons - one...

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Real-time evaluation programme languishing, PM tells Ahluwalia-Priscilla Jebaraj

-The Hindu A quarter of a century ago, the then Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Manmohan Singh, started a programme of concurrent – or real-time – evaluation of the government’s rural development schemes. On Saturday, the Prime Minister expressed surprise that such processes are “languishing” and “not in good shape” and asked the present Deputy Chairman, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, to “apply his mind to making good this deficiency.” The Prime Minister was...

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We didn’t issue any ‘Talibani firmans,’ say elders-Jiby Kattakayam & Mohammad Ali

-The Hindu Asara leaders say the media has not reported all decisions such as ban on dowry & compulsory schooling The leaders of the Samaj Sudhar Sabha in Asara village here, who recently ordered women to stop using mobile phones, have claimed that they had never imposed any “blanket ban” and only restrained them from using mobile phones while stepping out of their homes. However, the Sabha members did not backtrack on...

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