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NCERT has removed several topics from Class 12 textbooks including the 2002 Gujarat riots, the Emergency, and the Mughal court.

Many of these changes were announced earlier this year when the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) rationalised its syllabi in April

The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the Waqf Act 1995 and calling it an entirely violative inter-alia of the scheme of the Constitution and more particularly Articles 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 25, 26 and 300A.

Before this, the BJP and Nitish Kumar's JDU had also differed over the proposals of a Uniform Civil Code.

The two excerpts from Faiz's poems had been part of Class 10 social science syllabus for over a decade.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has dropped from the course content chapters on 'democracy and diversity', reported PTI. 

Chapters on Islamic empires, Cold War removed from CBSE curriculum, as are Faiz Ahmed Faiz poems - In the class 10 syllabus, the topic “impact of globalisation on agriculture” from a chapter on Food Security has been dropped.

The translated excerpts from two poems in Urdu by Faiz Ahmed Faiz in the 'Religion, Communalism and Politics Communalism, Secular State' section have also been excluded this year.

CBSE dropped chapters about Democracy and Diversity, Non-Aligned Movement, Cold War, rise of Islamic empires, chronicles of Mughal courts and the Industrial Revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.

The CBSE has dropped chapters about the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.