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
An under pressure government has decided that no political cartoons will be allowed in school textbooks. ...
11:50 PM, May 14, 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
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
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. Defending the move, Yadav said "it's a travesty to my mind to read a cartoon in such a manner". "The heated and not very well informed debate in the Parliament did not...
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Lahore: PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf hinted on Tuesday that Pakistan will not be shy of asking India to host their upcoming one-day series against Australia as bilateral cricket relations have recently improved between the two nations. The PCB is still searching for venues to host the five ODIs and three T20 matches against Australia from mid-August after Cricket Sri Lanka withdraw its offer to play host due to the clash...
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