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Education Budget 2026 Highlights: 'Education sector allocation below 6% that NEP envisions'

February 03, 2026 9:25 am

Budget 2026 for Education Sector Highlights: FM proposes to support of Indian Institute of Creative Technologies Mumbai for setting up content labs in 15,000 secondary schools. She also announces setting-up of girls hostel in every district. She further announces National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences 2 to support medical healthcare system.

Today News Headlines for School Assembly, January 28, 2026: Ajit Pawar dead

January 28, 2026 1:36 pm

Today News Headlines for School Assembly, January 28, 2026: Get important National, International, Sports, Business, and GK current affairs updates curated for students, teachers, and morning assemblies.

NCERT launches official WhatsApp Channel

January 28, 2026 9:37 am

The Council aims to provide authentic updates on curriculum, textbooks, teacher training, educational research, workshops, and initiatives that promote quality, equity, and holistic education.

Odisha has introduced three new subjects -- Art Education, Physical Education & Well-being, and Vocational Education, to promote the holistic development of students.

Odisha govt introducing 55 new textbooks for Classes 1 to 8 in next session

January 18, 2026 9:37 am

The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has completed the translation and contextualisation of the new textbooks

More than 30,000 textbooks seized by NCERT as it cracks down on piracy

Over 30,000 textbooks seized by NCERT as it cracks down on piracy

January 18, 2026 6:12 pm

The police also recovered two printing machines, aluminium printing plates, paper rolls, and printing ink, indicating large-scale unauthorised printing.

Cap coaching hours, align curricula with JEE and NEET: Centre’s panel

Cap coaching hours, align curricula with JEE and NEET UG: Centre’s panel

January 14, 2026 5:09 pm

The committee is learnt to have identified a “disconnect between school curricula and the demands of competitive examinations such as JEE and NEET”, and flagged the transition from Class 10 to Class 11 as a “stress point” for students.

Prafulla Chandra Ray and Dayanand Saraswati

Why 'national' science has been obsessed with ancient history

January 13, 2026 5:20 pm

Today, when NCERT textbooks assert that Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya developed algebra independently and before Arab scholars, they repeat a logic that has haunted Indian scholarship for nearly two centuries. Such claims are framed as historical corrections. Yet, they obscure a complex reality: the compulsion to locate science in antiquity was itself a response to colonialism.