Months after the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) withdrew its Class 8 Social Science textbook ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has issued a public apology after a chapter on the judiciary in a recently published Class 8 social science textbook sparked a row.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has issued show cause notices to the Secretary of the Department of Education and Literacy (Ministry of Education) and NCERT Director Dinesh Prashad Saklani, ...

The Supreme Court of India banned the NCERT Class 8th Social Science book. The ban was due to inappropriate content, with references to corruption in judiciary in ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released a new Class 8 Social Science textbook featuring a chapter, The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society, which examines ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court took serious objection to the new class 8 NCERT test book containing a portion related to corruption in the judiciary and said that the it has decided to take suo motu ...

Amid the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) book controversy, Supreme Court has blacklisted Class 8 judiciary chapter authors, saying, the judiciary chapter authors can ...

The council, responsible for school education curriculum, also put on hold the circulation of the textbook, hours after it took the book off its website. "It has been ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 11, 2026) took strong exception to a “laconic” statement made in an affidavit filed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Director ...

What the disputed chapter described was corruption at all levels of the judiciary and illustrated the enormous backlog, linking it to structural issues such as too few judges, unwieldy procedures, and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed displeasure over a reference to judicial corruption in a Class 8 NCERT textbook, a move that has prompted the Supreme Court to issue a showcause notice to ...