Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Three days after over 250 academics, including well-known linguist Noam Chomsky, wrote to President Droupadi Murmu about the sacking of a Visva Bharati professor and seeking her intervention, the central university in a statement regretted that the signatories signed the letter without ascertaining the real situation that had rocked the varsity in past two years. India News | Visva Bharati Hits Back at Academics for Writing Letter to President over Sacking of Professor.
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'This termination order is indicative of how the norms, laws and procedures governing Visva-Bharati are being violated under the leadership of its current Vice-Chancellor.'
AGRA: The largest body of historians in the country, the Indian History Congress (IHC), has objected to the proposed changes of school textbooks, saying that it is being done for political, not academic, reasons.
At the beginning of the year, the Rajya Sabha secretariat had notified that a change in school textbook curriculum would be discussed by a parliamentary standing committee. In what it called a “reform”, it said the focus would be on removing “unhistorical facts” and “distortions about our national heroes”, and on ensuring “equal or proportionate references to all periods of Indian history”. Public responses were invited till June 30 and the deadline was later extended till July 15, when the IHC sent its response.