NCERT’s new Class 9 Social Science textbook adds Emergency and SIR, omits Preamble and secularism, and details judiciary’s role.

The changes have reignited a political battle between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.

NCERT's new Class 9 Social Science textbook cites verses from Manusmriti and other ancient texts while discussing women's status, varna and jati systems.

New Delhi: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is now part of the NCERT's class 9 Social Science textbook, which describes it as an exercise to ensure that no eligible citizen is ...

The revised textbook, released under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on Thursday, discusses the Constitution through its making, democratic institutions and fundamental rights, but does not ...

NCERT's revised Class 9 Social Science textbook now explains the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision alongside its role in maintaining accurate electoral rolls and conducting free and ...

New Delhi: Nearly five decades after the Emergency was declared in India, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has incorporated the subject into a Class 9 Social Science ...

Former NCERT Director JS Rajput defended including a Manusmriti verse in the Class 9 textbook. He argued that old literature ...

A senior NCERT official said the earlier Class 9 textbook had no mention of the Emergency, but a dedicated section had now ...

The SIR, which has so far led to the deletion of nearly 6 crore names from the electoral rolls and led to acrimony between the opposition parties and the ECI, has completed a year and continues in 19 ...

Move comes days after NCERT also introduced a section on the 1975 Emergency, as the council's curriculum changes draw repeated political attention ...