Tamil Nadu parties demand cartoon’s removal from textbook (Second Lead)
June 13th, 2012 - 7:57 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 13 (IANS) A cartoon lampooning the anti-Hindi agitation that rocked Tamil Nadu in 1965 has united the political parties in the state to demand its removal from the ... Read more...
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Jayalalithaa demands withdrawal of cartoon from NCERT book (Lead)
June 13th, 2012 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday urged the central government to remove from a Class 12 NCERT textbook a cartoon about the anti-Hindi agitation that ... Read more...
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Jayalalithaa demands withdrawal of cartoon from NCERT book
June 13th, 2012 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday urged the central government to remove from a Class 12 NCERT textbook the cartoon about the anti-Hindi agitation that ... Read more...
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DMK demands removal of cartoon from NCERT textbook
June 9th, 2012 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai June 9 (IANS) DMK president M. Karunanidhi Saturday urged the central government to remove from a textbook the controversial cartoon lampooning the anti-Hindi agitation that raged in Tamil Nadu ... Read more...
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‘Getting upset over cartoons immature’
May 19th, 2012 - 12:03 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Eminent journalists, writers and cartoonists gathered at the capital's Press Club of India (PCI) Friday for a discussion on the controversy stirred by famed ... Read more...
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‘Let academicians decide on Ambedkar cartoon’
May 15th, 2012 - 9:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) A artist-activist group Tuesday said the government should not withdraw a textbook cartoon featuring Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar under political pressure.Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (Sahmat) ... Read more...
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Bhagavad Gita studied by Hindus and Muslims in this school
December 26th, 2010 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
By Asit Srivastava
Lucknow, Dec 26 (IANS) Schools across the country may have modified textbooks over the decades, but an institution in Lucknow has persisted with the Bhagavad Gita as a moral science ... Read more...
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Textbook row: Kerala Catholics pledge to protect their beliefs
August 15th, 2008 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kozhikode, Aug 15 (IANS) Members of Kerala's 29 Catholic dioceses took a pledge on Independence Day Friday to protect their faith from "atheist movements" and "anti-religious" ideas propagated in a controversial Class ... Read more...
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Kerala Sunni group to take anti-textbook stir to mosques
August 6th, 2008 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
Kozhikode, Aug 6 (IANS) A prominent organisation of Sunni Muslims in Kerala has decided to hold a campaign through mosques against a controversial Class 7 social science textbook, which they say promotes ... Read more...
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Chandy cancels foreign trip due to textbook stir
August 5th, 2008 - 12:15 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 5 (IANS) Kerala opposition leader Oomen Chandy Tuesday said he has cancelled his proposed trip to Australia and Singapore as his party will intensify protests for the withdrawal of a ... Read more...
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Congress leaders ask Achuthanandan to withdraw school book
July 31st, 2008 - 6:31 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 31 (IANS) Congress leaders in Kerala Thursday met Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan to demand the withdrawal of controversial chapters from a Class 7 social science textbook, saying these try to ... Read more...
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Less than four percent of IAS, IPS officers are Muslims
July 31st, 2008 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
Prashant K. Nanda
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Muslims are the most deprived in terms of socio-economic parameters including their share of jobs in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police ... Read more...
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Protest against teacher’s death peaceful in Kerala
July 20th, 2008 - 7:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kozhikode, July 20 (IANS) The dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of Kerala Sunday, to protest against the death of a teacher during ... Read more...
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Controversy over Class 7 textbook continues in Kerala
July 19th, 2008 - 3:51 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 19 (IANS) The Catholic Church in Kerala and the two Left parties that are in the ruling coalition criticised each other Saturday over a controversial Class 7 social science textbook ... Read more...
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Textbook controversy snowballs in Kerala
July 16th, 2008 - 9:01 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 16 (IANS) The controversy over a class VII social science textbook in Kerala snowballed further Wednesday with rival political fronts in the state strongly justifying their positions on the issue. ... Read more...
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Nehru’s last will and testament changed in Kerala texts
July 7th, 2008 - 3:38 pm ICT by IANS
By Liz Mathew
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) He didn't believe in "religions ceremony", to be forced to do so, he said, would be a "hipocracy"... those are, according to a textbook for ... Read more...
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Youth Congress activists baton charged in Kerala
July 1st, 2008 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 1 (IANS) Minutes after national Youth Congress president Ashok Tanwar Tuesday urged the state unit to oppose the "wrong policies" of the Left government, the police brutally beat up some ... Read more...
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BJP calls for shutdown in Kerala capital Friday
June 26th, 2008 - 10:50 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, June 26 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a shutdown in Thiruvananthapuram district Friday to protest the police baton-charge on its youth wing activists Thursday. The police resorted ... Read more...
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