-PTI Yet another Book has levelled an allegation that P V Narasimha Rao had connived at the demolition of Babri Masjid, claiming that the late Prime Minister had sat in a puja when the kar sevaks began pulling it down and rose only when it was over. The charge relating to the demolition on Dec 6, 1992 has been made by eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar in his soon-to-be released autobiography "Beyond the...
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Railways fail to evict illegal passengers from reserved coaches-Vinita Deshmukh
The railway ministry is helpless about the discomfort of railway passengers in reserved compartments who are outnumbered by passengers without tickets or with tickets meant for unreserved compartments Last month, my friend’s daughter went on a trip to Corbett Park, which was organised by a Pune-based nature trail group. Although they had Booked a Second Class (ordinary) reserved compartment, most of the 30-hour journey was spent in utter discomfort, with people...
More »Recommendation most unfortunate: Panikkar-G Krishnakumar
-The Hindu Against recommendation to delete several cartoons and texts from Political Science Books Historian K.N. Panikkar has said the S.K. Thorat panel, constituted to review the use of cartoons in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textBooks, had undone an academically commendable effort. Terming the majority panel recommendation to delete several cartoons and texts of some others from the political science textBooks “most unfortunate,” Dr. Panikkar told The Hindu...
More »NCERT to hold consultations on Thorat report-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu ‘It did not seem to be too happy with recommendations’ The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Wednesday decided to hold further consultations on the S.K. Thorat Committee report that recommended the removal of 21 cartoons and words, which, it said, were “ambiguous,” negative or showed politicians and bureaucrats in an ‘incorrect’ way, from the Social Science and Political Science textBooks for Classes IX-XII. Sources in the NCERT...
More »Here are some of the cartoons deemed unsuitable for school-Anubhuti Vishnoi
-The Indian Express It is not just 21 cartoons that have been deemed “inappropriate” for NCERT textBooks. The Thorat Committee has frowned on much more, disapproving of “ too many cartoons of Mrs Indira Gandhi” in the Class XII textBooks, and objecting to some Amul advertisements. Set up in May following MPs’ objections to political cartoons in textBooks, the six-member committee headed by ICSSR chairman S K Thorat vetted six textBooks that...
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