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It is noted with deep concern and shock that the Government of India Department of Posts have issued an order dated 26-04-2023 derecognizing two major Trade Union organizations of the postal employees which represents more than 70 percent of the postal employees

We, the undersigned, have learned that sweeping changes are being proposed in the CBSE curriculum in the secondary and senior secondary courses. These changes, first introduced as a temporary measure during the Corona pandemic, are being continued even when schooling has gone back to offline mode. In particular, we are
concerned with the exclusion of the teaching of Darwinian evolution from the 10th standard curriculum, as seen in the information (see https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/BookletClass10.pdf, page 21) available on the NCERT website

Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) is shocked by the blatantly anti-women diktat of the spokesman of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board,

The present string of deletions in history textbooks under the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has sparked much debate and discussion. These deletions are in line with the ongoing attack on much of the existing historical scholarship in the country. A volley of abuses and accusations have been hurled at historians for intentionally misrepresenting and distorting India

In 2018, during the previous tenure of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, Minister of State for the Ministry of Human Resources Development (now renamed Education Ministry) Satya Pal Singh told Parliament, no less, that Charles Darwin