MANGALORE: Karnataka Komu Souhardha Vedike( Karnataka Communal Haemony forum) is gearing up to fight legally and socially what it describes an apparent move by the BJP government to 'saffronise' social sciences textbooks of class V and VIII from next academic year. The textbooks, according to the vedike, will go for printing in the next three days. The government is spending about Rs 14 crore on printing of the new textbooks.  read more »

Thiruvananthapuram- May 30

Catholic Church in Kerala has taken serious objection to the new Social Science textbook for the 10th standard, prepared during the previous LDF's rule, alleging that it contained ''grossly baseless anti-church contents'' and "propagated Marxist political ideology''.  read more »