NEW DELHI: In a move aimed at fitness and the holistic well being of students, a new subject – Physical Education and Well Being – makes its debut this academic year for Class VIII. The National ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has implemented major changes in its class 6 to 12 Social Science and History textbooks. Key topics such as the Mughal Empire, India’s ...

New Delhi: Long before he became a prominent voice in Indian civilisation studies, academic Michel Danino was a curious teenager in France, immersed in mathematics, science, and engineering and yet ...

A controversy has erupted over a map in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Class 8 social science book depicting parts of Rajasthan under the Maratha Empire of 1759.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has formed a high level expert committee to review the map of the Maratha Empire featured in the new Class 8 social science textbook.

Amid a controversy over a map in the new Class 8 social science textbook showing parts of Rajasthan, including Jaisalmer, as being under the Maratha empire, the National Council of Educational ...

The Class 8 Social Science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been criticised following a complaint from a former member of Jaisalmer’s royal ...

The NCERT, which decides the curriculum, has maintained that the changes were effected after the pandemic to ease the stress on students. However, most of the alterations appear to tally with the ...

The new NCERT social science textbooks for classes 6 to 8 provide a “broad survey” of Indian civilisation from prehistoric times to Independence, and an “in-depth, detailed treatment of any period of ...

These textbooks aim to nurture critical thinking, cultural awareness, and a deeper sense of identity. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has launched a new mathematics ...

The updated textbooks for Class 10 for the 2025–2026 school year have been made available by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Continued content rationalization, which ...