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Naveen unhappy over dropping Paika rebellion from textbook
Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday expressed anguish, stating that the 'omission' of Paika rebellion from NCERT textbook was a 'huge dishonour' to the State's heroes. Patnaik, the chief of the Opposition BJD, said the Paika rebellion was a watershed moment in Odisha's history as they fought with extraordinary courage against the oppressive British way back in 1817. 'Deeply concerned to know that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (@ncert) has dropped #Odisha's Paika Rebellion or Paika Bidroha from its textbooks,' he said in a post on X. 'I had urged the Govt of India many times to declare it as first war of Independence,' he added. Patnaik, the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, said Paikas came together to fight against the tyranny of foreign, colonial rule with unparalleled bravery. 'The omission of the epic rebellion from NCERT textbooks, which took place 40 years before the sepoy mutiny, is a huge dishonour to our brave Paikas, 200 years after the rebellion- which became torchbearer for people's movement against British rule,' he said. Patnaik urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to ensure that 'justice is done to Paika Bidroha and Odisha'. The NCERT, in a statement, noted that 'the said textbook happens to be the 1st volume of this textbook'. 'The second volume is in final stages of development and is expected to be released in Sept-Oct 2025. Topics relating to the regional resistance movements/armed uprisings such as the Paika rebellion/Khurda uprising of Odisha, the Kuka movement/rebellion of the Sikhs in Punjab etc, will be handled in this volume,' it said. Paika, an Odia word, was derived from 'Padatika', meaning foot soldiers. They were members of local militias, which comprised people from different communities, who fought for the erstwhile kings.
NDTV
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Columbia Punishes 80 Students Over Anti-Israel Protests
Columbia University said Tuesday it has issued various punishments, including expulsions and degree revocations, against various students involved in anti-Israel protests on campus. The sanctions, which a student group said targeted nearly 80 people, come as the New York institution negotiates with President Donald Trump's administration to restore $400 million in cut federal funding. Trump has applied intense pressure on the prestigious university and others, accusing them of failing to address alleged anti-Semitism amid nationwide protests last year against Israel's war in Gaza. Columbia, which was the epicenter of the campus protests, has agreed to implement a series of policy reforms in an attempt to regain the federal funding, sparking anger from many students. Fellow Ivy League institution Harvard has also been targeted with billions in funding cuts, but is fighting the pressure campaign in court. The latest sanctions by Columbia stem from a library sit-in this past May, as well as an encampment set up during alumni weekend in spring 2024, the university said in a statement. The library protest disrupted hundreds of students during an exam study period, it said, with punishments including "probation, suspensions (ranging from one year to three years), degree revocations, and expulsions." "The University does not release individual disciplinary results of any student," the statement said. It did not specify which punishments had been issued for the spring 2024 encampment, which occurred after larger protests -- including the occupation of an academic building -- but Columbia said it was "the final set of findings from that period." The student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which calls for the school to cut all financial ties with Israel, said the library-related sanctions "hugely exceed precedent for teach-ins or non-Palestine-related building occupations." "We will not be deterred. We are committed to the struggle for Palestinian liberation," the group said.
Hans India
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BRS slams Cong's dishonesty over BC reservation
Hyderabad: BRS party leaders opined that the Congress party has been following a deceiving stance from the beginning on providing 42 per cent reservation for BCs. A meeting of BC leaders of the party was held at senior leader Talasani Srinivas Yadav chaired by party's working president KT Rama Rao here on Tuesday. The BC leaders of the party criticized that the Congress' real aim was to deceive BCs at all levels, starting from the caste census to the ordinance being brought by the government. Rama Rao discussed extensively on the treacherous activities being carried out by the Congress party towards BCs. In this meeting, BC leaders opined that the Congress party acted dishonestly in every case in the matter of providing 42 per cent reservations in local bodies with the malicious intention of deceiving BCs. They said that even though they knew that the law they brought would not be approved, the Congress government was once again engaging in a new drama in the name of an ordinance. They said that the Congress party's malicious intention was clearly visible in reducing the number of BCs from the caste census to the enumeration process. They said that the Congress party is doing serious injustice to the BCs by not implementing a single promise given by the Congress in the name of the BC declaration. The BRS leaders said that the Congress party acted dishonestly from the beginning in the matter of providing reservations for BCs in local bodies. They said that even though they knew about the flaws and loopholes in every process they undertook, they were now preparing to evade it in the name of courts and legal provisions with the malicious intention of deceiving BCs. The leaders were furious that by presenting the caste census survey conducted with the most flawed and malicious intentions as a national role model, they were not only deceiving the people of Telangana but were also telling lies on national platforms. On the one hand, while deceiving the BCs on the issue of 42 per cent reservations, the Congress deceived the BCs by not implementing any of the promises made in the name of the BC declaration. They said that the cancellation of the schemes started by the previous BRS government for the poor and weaker sections and not starting new schemes was a betrayal of the Congress party.
