'Impartial and independent': New NCERT textbook lauds judiciary months after 'judicial corruption' chapter row

A new NCERT Class 9 textbook highlights the judiciary as an impartial institution safeguarding rights, months after the Supreme Court's strong objection to a Class 8 textbook's section on alleged ...

SIR now part of Class IX NCERT textbook, ECI lauded for impartial polls

The pilot SIR commenced in Bihar on June 24 last year ahead of the state polls. The result was a pruned voter list, with ...
Deccan Chronicle

NCERT Class 9 Textbook Highlights Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls

New Social Science textbook says SIR helps include eligible voters and remove ineligible names; also praises ECI's role in ...
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NCERT adds emergency chapter to class 9 textbook for first time, calls it a major challenge to democracy

New Delhi: More than five decades after the Emergency was imposed in India, NCERT has, for the first time, introduced the ...
The Forward

National Council of Jewish Women ejects LA chapter, other affiliates cut ties amid historic reboot

When wildfires blazed through Los Angeles last year, displacing tens of thousands of people, the local National Council of Jewish Women affiliate was well positioned to help. The national nonprofit’s ...
The Indian Express

CBSE Class 12th Political Science exam to be held today

As per the CBSE Board Instructions 50% paper will be competency based.
NDTV

NCERT Class 8 Social Science Book Lists "Corruption At Various Levels" In Judiciary

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released a new Class 8 Social Science textbook featuring a chapter, The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society, which examines ...
The New Indian Express

NCERT Class 8 textbook lists 'corruption, case backlog, judge shortage' as key challenges in judiciary

Corruption, a massive backlog of cases, and an inadequate number of judges are among the major challenges facing India’s judicial system, according to a newly released Class 8 Social Science textbook ...
The Indian Express

Congress leaders accepted Partition as only way forward: New NCERT book

A new NCERT Class 8 social science textbook released on Monday notes that though Mahatma Gandhi and most Congress leaders had opposed the idea of Partition of the country in 1947, “they ended up ...
Wellcome Collection

Accounts of the massacre by Japanese invaders of patients and staff at the British Military Hospital (Alexandra Hospital) Singapore on 13-14 February 1942 ("The Alexandra Outrage")

Accounts of the massacre by Japanese invaders of patients and staff at the British Military Hospital (Alexandra Hospital) Singapore on 13-14 February 1942 ("The Alexandra Outrage")RAMC/840 Account by ...
The Straits Times

Alleged Kpod trafficker charged after pointing knife at man at Whampoa carpark

SINGAPORE - An alleged trafficker of etomidate vape pods was nabbed after he purportedly pointed a knife at another man during a transaction at a carpark in Whampoa West. On Feb 4, Yeo Zhi Xiang, 30, ...
The Straits Times

Man charged with having 28 Kpods for trafficking purposes at Marsiling Drive home

SINGAPORE - A man has been charged with having 28 Kpods in his possession for the purpose of trafficking, after the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) raided his home. Basil Wang Zhuang Zhen, 23, a ...