India

Replace India with “Bharat” in school textbooks, recommends NCERT committee

NEW DELHI — A committee formed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to revise school curriculum has suggested replacing “India” with “Bharat” in textbooks across all classes. According to committee chairperson C I Isaac, the panel has suggested replacing the name “India” with “Bharat” in the textbooks, introducing “classical history” instead […]

Kashmir

Bhatnagar reviews performance, functioning of School Education Department

SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar today chaired a meeting to review the performance and functioning of School education department as well as progress on implementation of Project Samagra Shiksha across Jammu and Kashmir at Civil Secretariat here. The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary, Education, Alok Kumar; Director School Education […]

Kashmir

School timing changed in Srinagar

SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Directorate of School Education, Kashmir (DSEK) on Wednesday changed the timing of schools in Srinagar city from June 1, 2023. According to an order issued by Director School Education, Kashmir, all government and private recognized schools within the municipal limits of Srinagar city shall observe school timings from 9:00 AM to […]

Kashmir

Regularisation of ReTs who enhanced higher studies via regular mode in service deferred

SRINAGAR — The School Education Department has ordered deferment of regularisation and recovery of salaries of those RRETs who were in government services and were simultaneously perusing graduation via regular mode while being in service. Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) has said that upon the approval from administrative department and decision taken in divisional […]

Kashmir

Two IUST PhD scholars Zeeshan Majeed, Umer Iqbal awarded ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship

SRINAGAR — Two PhD scholars from the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) Awantipora have been awarded the Centrally Administered Doctoral Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) for the year 2022-23 & 2023-24. The scholars namely; Zeeshan Majeed Nadroo, working on ‘Determinants of consumer shopping behaviour, a study of North […]