# NCERT

• A group of over 1800 scientists and teachers have objected to the National council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) dropping Charles Darwin’s Theory of Biological Evolution from its class 10th Textbook and urged the Centre to restore the Chapter.
• As part of its rationalization exercise, NCERT had last year announced that the Chapter “Heredity and Evolution” Will be replaced with Heredity in class 10 science textbook.
• The scientists said in the current structure, only a small fraction of students choose the Science stream in Class 11 and 12 and even smaller fraction of those choose biology as one of the subjects of study, thus the exclusion of Key concepts from the curriculum till class 10 amounts to a vast majority of students missing a critical part of essential learning in this field.

# RIL

• Reliance industries limited saw its profit rise by 18% to ₹21327 crore in the March quarter on the back of strong performance by its oil to chemicals, digital services (Jio), retail and oil and gas businesses.
• Profit would have been higher had it not been for the export tax on refined fuels.
• Revenue rose 2% to nearly ₹2.2 lakh crore on the back of traction in the company’s consumer businesses.
• Operating profit, a yardstick for underlying business performance, increased 21% to ₹40376 crore.

# Forex

• India’s forex reserve rose by $1.7 billion to $586.4 billion as of April 14.
• It is the second consecutive week of increase, according to RBI data released on Friday.
• In the previous reporting week, the overall reserve rose by $6.3 billion to $584.4 billion.

# Uganda

• A controversial new measure against homosexuality that calls for the death penalty in some circumstances has been rejected by Ugandan president.
• The Uganda president announced the decision after meeting the parliamentarian of the ruling party.