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Panel set up to examine pol science textbooks

The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman S K Thorat in the wake of the cartoo...

Harry Potter e-Books come to Amazon Kindle library

On-line retailing giant Amazon has announced that all seven Harry Potter eBooks will be added to its...

NCERT asked to remove Ambedkar cartoon: Sibal

The objectionable cartoon, credited to Shankar`s Children`s Book Trust, appears in chapter I titled ...

Police recovers truck with 32,000 NCERT books

The police on Sunday recovered a stolen truck loaded with 32,000 NCERT books worth Rs 25 lakh from N...

Punjab govt to provide free text books to SC/ST students

In an effort to impart quality education to the marginalised, the Punjab government on Sunday said i...

`B` for bomb, `ch` for chaku...in UP school books

Upside down pictures of India`s national flag, chapters to teach the Hindi alphabet that say `b` for...

US judge to rule on Strauss-Kahn lawsuit next week

Nafissatou Diallo, a maid at Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan, accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a...

Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works

Digitized collections will centre on 3 subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books ...

Mamata wants end of Marx, Engels in WB textbooks

Trinamool Congress defended the move, claiming the attempt is to "correct the imbalance" which was t...

iPads could replace books in China school

Students in a Chinese school may soon carry iPads instead of books to their classrooms as the manage...

Harry Potter novels available in e-book format

Harry Potter novels are available for the first time in e-book format on the new website dedicated t...

Einstein`s private, professional life put online

Albert Einstein`s complete archives - from personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers to noteb...

Apple, book publishers facing potential US suit

The Justice Department is threatening to sue Apple and five major US publishers for allegedly collud...

Google launches unified digital content store

Google Play is entirely cloud-based so all your music, movies, books and apps are stored online.

Harry Potter e-books coming to schools, libraries

Harry Potter e-books are coming to schools and libraries, at a date to be determined.

Audio books at World Book Fair

Audio versions of about hundred fiction and non-fiction books have been featured as part of the ongo...

Samsung launches ultra notebook series in India

South Korean Samsung Electronics Thursday launched its Series 5 Ultra Notebooks, priced between Rs.4...

Afghanistan: ‘Books burned had extremist content’

Muslim holy books that were burned at a US base in Afghanistan had been removed from a library at a ...

‘Make text books more age-equivalent, simple’

The HRD Ministry is understood to have asked state governments and education boards to make text b...

E-textbooks knocking at Indian classroom doors

For a generation that has learnt to articulate thoughts in 140 characters and knows its smartphones ...

E-books damaging society: US novelist

Jonathan Franzen has warned that our desire for the instant gratification of e-books is damaging for...

Zimbabwe bookseller arrested over PM`s biography

Police raided Rosepet Bookshop and confiscated 10 copies of the book, "At the Deep End", the Moveme...

Chile backs off removing `dictatorship` from texts

Chilean Education Minister earlier suggested calling the 1973-1990 rule of General Augusto Pinochet ...

Intel ships new Atom processors to PC makers

The third-generation Atom processor-based platform introduces several new features for low-power des...

Slovakia launches website with e-books

The European nation of Slovakia has launched a new website to provide the public with digitised scho...

Ultrabooks to replace Laptops by 2013: Intel

Ultrabooks have sleek and compact design with computing speed that can match computing need of prese...

EU in antitrust probe of Apple, e-book publishers

The European Union`s antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses...

Penguin suspends library e-books, citing security

One of the country`s largest publishers, Penguin Group (USA), has suspended making e-editions of new...

NASA books 1st flight from New Mexico spaceport

NASA has booked a charter suborbital flight from Virgin Galactic`s spaceport operations in southern ...

Now read on e-books with sound effects, songs

E-books are now being given background noises and music in the hope to spark young people`s interest...

Berlin library returning books stolen by Nazis

Nazis had stolen the books from the Social Democratic Party.

New "porno" sex text book enrages Chinese parents

Early sex education is a field demanding more design and more ideas, which should be delicate with v...

New `Living Fossil` eel species found in Pacific

The small brown fish has very few of the anatomical characteristics of modern eels.

Baba Ramdev’s trust books released

A Delhi court has ordered release of some books and other articles which were found in two vehicles ...

China piracy sweep nets fake books, porn films

The US has complained that China has not kept promises to stamp out intellectual property theft.

SC extends deadline for text books distribution

The Supreme Court on Thursday extended till August 5 the dealine for Jayalalithaa government in Tam...

Judge grants more time to ink Google Books pact

A US judge today gave Google more time to work out a deal with book authors and publishers to put di...

Russian court bans Scientology books

Attempts by Russian authorities to ban Scientology literature have been overturned recently.

Google to digitise 250,000 British Library books

The project covers a huge range of books, pamphlets and periodicals dated 1700 to 1870. This covers ...

France to return looted Korean books `permanently`

After years of diplomatic wrangling, France in April and May sent back 296 volumes of "Uigwe".

Google launches Chrome-based notebooks

Google announced the launch of `Chromebooks` that will be available online from June 15.

Ex-Taliban fighter recruited in UK: Prosecutor

Munir Farooqi was one of several extremists who manned an Islamic bookstall.

France returns another batch of Korean royal books

The texts featuring the royal ceremonies & rites will be displayed at the National Museum of Korea. ...

e-book boom in China: Survey

Chinese people between the ages of 18 and 70 read 613 million electronic books in 2010.

France returns rare Korean books after 145 years

The ancient royal books will be housed at South Korea`s National Museum.

BJP delegation gifted Quran books

The visiting BJP delegation headed by Rajnath Singh was gifted copies of the Holy Quran translated i...

Jewish community given back books stolen by Nazis

The books were plundered from Jews by the Nazis more than six decades ago.

Headmistress beat children for asking for textbooks

Six minor girl students were allegedly beaten up by their headmistress when they demanded "adequate...

70 books, 2,000 years old, found in Jordan

A total of 70 books, made of lead and dating back to over 2,000 years, have been found in a cave in ...

ICSE Board restrained from using "objectionable" words in books

A Delhi court has restrained the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Board from using "objec...

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