In a move to aid the students of the country, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), on Monday, announced a 20 per cent cut in its textbook prices for classes 9 to 12 with effect from the upcoming academic year.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday highlighted the immense pressure the younger generation faces, particularly the unrealistic expectations of achieving academic excellence, which, he felt, steals their childhood and leaves little room for joy.
Organised in collaboration with the National Book Trust and the Lucknow Development Authority, the festival will run from November 9 to 17.
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Actress Rashmika Mandanna has shared a glimpse of her newfound passion that she has discovered in the past two months, which is reading books.
Literary translation is a fusion of the craft of translation with creative artistry, or the creative crafting of words in the target language, so that the purpose and aesthetic style of the source text are recreated and transferred with felicity into the target text.
College Dupleix to Chandernagore College: The Journey from Revolution to Emancipation contains in detail the revolutionary activities and the secret societies that came up in Chandernagore with the sole motto of driving out the British through armed revolution.
However, despite many obstacles, it appears that college and university students in India are still fighting to make space for books in their lives, exhibiting a wide range of reading preferences, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama.
Books on Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Vedanta literature worth over Rs 50 lakh were sold in the recently-concluded 47th International Kolkata Book Fair.
Following the opening of the Ram Mandir, mythology has surged in popularity at the fair, with the "365 Vedas" book by Ajay Mago, renowned for Om Books International's children's fiction, emerging as the top-selling title in the genre.
