New Delhi: The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman SK Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT's political science textbooks for schools. The committee, which has five members from the social science background, will review class IX to XII social science/political science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material in them, said a NCERT notification....
09:39 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The members of Parliament across party lines said not just Ambedkar cartoons but no political cartoons at all should be allowed in school textbooks. The BJP said HRD Minister Kapil Sibal must resign on this issue. The question is whether cartoon and politician satire should be censored. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discussed the issue with a distinguished panel on her show Face The Nation. Following is the...
12:17 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Under attack over the cartoon row, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday acknowledged that cartoons on the political class should not find a place in textbooks as they influence the impressionable minds of students. Holding that the issue is not about the content of the cartoons but about their inclusion in textbooks, he said the impression should not go to the world that the political class is corrupt...
02:04 AM, May 15, 2012
Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians removed from school textbooks as they depict politicians in a poor light. ...
11:58 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said that freedom of expression is "contextual". His statement came even as members in the Lok Sabha once again united in criticising cartoons in NCERT textbooks, stating that these allegedly denigrated political leaders, especially the ones on BR Ambedkar. Sibal promised the Lok Sabha that all objectionable material would be removed and the role of advisors of NCERT (National...
07:30 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Following the controversy over a 63-year-old BR Ambedkar cartoon by K Shankar Pillai the government assured Parliament that no political cartoons would be allowed in school textbooks. Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee also announced that all the objectionable material would be withdrawn. But the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) book at the centre of the storm - India Constitution at Work, a part of the Class...
06:58 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Cartoons are not a laughing matter for politicians after a 63-year-old cartoon of DR BR Ambedkar led to uproarious scenes in Parliament, forcing the Union Government to apologise. Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee assured Parliament on Monday that no political cartoons would be allowed in school textbooks and all objectionable material would be withdrawn after there was a ruckus over a cartoon of BR Ambedkar in NCERT class XI...
12:06 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: After fighting for removal of BR Ambedkar's cartoon from NCERT books, some MPs are demanding the removal of all political satires from school textbooks. In fact that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. CNN-IBN has now learnt that the Members of Parliamentary forum having members from all major parties in a meeting last week raised expressed strong displeasure on cartoons in NCERT...
10:14 PM, May 13, 2012
A Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT that there should be no political satire in school textbooks. ...
03:42 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Not just BR Ambedkar, there should be no political satire in school textbooks, that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. Sources told CNN-IBN that at a meeting on May 8, the Parliamentary Forum on Children strongly objected to cartoons in Political Science textbooks of Class IX, X, XI and XII. Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians...
01:06 PM, May 13, 2012
Goons went on a rampage at the office of former NCERT Professor Suhas Palshikar in Pune, a day after he resigned over the controversial cartoon of Dr BR Ambedkar. ...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Former NCERT adviser Professor Suhas Palshikar's Pune University office was allegedly attacked and ransacked by an unidentified group over the row on the 63-year-old cartoon of BR Ambdekar. Earlier on Friday, Palshikar had quit as the NCERT advisor after the NCERT was forced to withdraw the sketch from school textbooks. This came after MPs across party lines objected and caused a ruckus in Parliament. Sources said the cartoon...
08:38 AM, May 13, 2012
Goons in Pune went on a rampage at the office of Professor Suhas Palshikar against the so called derogatory cartoon of BR Ambedkar. ...
11:49 PM, May 12, 2012
Mumbai: The images of intolerance. Professor Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as chief advisor to the NCERT over the row surrounding a BR Ambedkar cartoon was threatened by members of a fringe group and his office was vandalised too. Palshikar said, "People who have masterminded the act are more important rather than those who have done it. Attackers are simply instrument." Former NCERT advisor Yogendra Yadav said, "I spoke to him...
09:17 PM, May 12, 2012
Pune: Former NCERT adviser Professor Suhas Palshikar's Pune University office was allegedly attacked and ransacked by an unidentified group over the row on the 63-year-old cartoon of BR Ambdekar. Speaking about the incident, Palshikar told CNN-IBN that two to three men had attacked the NCERT advisor's office. Reportedly, they told him that they were upset with the cartoon. The miscreants were allegedly from the Panther's Party, which is reportedly close...
03:02 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Following the uproar over the controversial cartoon picture of BR Ambedkar in a textbook, NCERT advisors Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar resigned on Friday. Yadav and Palshikar were chief advisors for political science at the NCERT. However, BR Ambedkar's grandson has said that Ambedkar wouldn't have opposed the cartoon. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Prakash Ambedkar said, "The cartoon represented the year 1949 when Ambedkar himself was alive. I have...
08:02 AM, May 12, 2012
Kapil Sibal said that the issue had come to his notice in April and an order had been sent to the NCERT regarding the same. ...
11:52 PM, May 11, 2012
Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal apologises for the 63-year-old Ambedkar cartoon, printed in textbooks. ...
11:15 PM, May 11, 2012
Lucknow: The SP government in Uttar Pradesh on Friday scrapped 27 schemes launched by former Chief Minister Mayawati, majority of which were named after dalit icon BR Ambedkar and her mentor Kanshi Ram, besides doing away with reservation in government contracts for SC\STs. A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who took over the reins of the state in March, decided to abolish reservation in government contracts implemented...
08:52 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday slammed the government on the issue of cartoon of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar in school text books and accused Congress of "insulting" Gujjar, Jat, Sikh and Jain communities in text books. "For the last two days, this government has been committing mistakes and apologising. It commits a mistake in the morning and apologises in the evening. On Thursday, the Leader of the House in...
08:27 PM, May 11, 2012
