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In 2012, the organization has been blamed for publishing 'undefensive' cartoons against B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution and thus lodging an insult to the Constitution, in its textbooks. [26] The controversy led to the resignation of NCERT chief advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar and an apology from the government.
In the Class 7 textbook topic titled “Our Pasts-2”, pages 48 and 49 have been excluded. These pages mentioned “Mughal Emperors: Major campaigns and events.” The deletions also affected Biology and Chemistry textbooks as the theory of evolution and the periodic table were also purged from class 10 NCERT textbooks. [35] [36]
International relations Swedish media report that the country has been helping Saudi Arabia plan the construction of a weapons factory. (Al Jazeera) Politics China describes Tibetan monks that have self-immolated as "criminals" and accuses the Dalai Lama of supporting the acts. (The Hindu) Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil says he will "defend national unity" after Cyrenaica, the eastern ...
CBSE conducts the final examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 every year in the months of February and March. The results are announced by the end of May. [ 8 ] The board earlier conducted the AIEEE Examination for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and architecture in colleges across India, however, the AIEEE exam was merged ...
In 2004, when the case was still under trial, the incident was included the English textbook for Class 6, by the State Council of Educational Research and Training of the New Delhi region, in the form of a chapter titled Man in Jail over Dowry Demand. It was adopted from a newspaper article from May 2003.
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar FNA, FASc, FTWAS (born 19 July 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). [1] He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach ...
1958 – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2014) [45] 1958 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012) 1959 – Tom Lehman, American golfer; 1959 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer [38] 1959 – Nick Searcy, American actor [38] 1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player and sportscaster
Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS FAA (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər /; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.. He won the 1958 Chemistry Prize for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other proteins, demonstrating in the process that each had a unique, definite structure; this was a foundational discovery for the ...