Centre to decide about restoration of the quota for Marathas in government jobs and education

The Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha will convene for a five-sitting long Special Session on September 18 as political parties gear up for Assembly and Central polls.... As the agenda continues to remain under wraps other Opposition lawmakers have sought discussion on a slew of issues during the special session.“ We have heard that PM Modi wants to have a discussion on China invading Ladakh and the Manipur issue.... I am thankful to PM Modi if he's going to discuss these," he added. The development c

Join our Whatsapp channel IN more ways than one, the Modi-Trudeau tiff has its origins in a centuries-old peasant struggle being waged in India, from the Mughal times till today.... The polls gave the BJP — which began its journey as a party of traders — its third consecutive victory in the predominantly agrarian state.... But his Brahmin-Dalit-Muslim voting calculus unwittingly excluded the middle rung peasants comprising the OBCs, who were snapped up by Nehru’s populist adversaries like Lohi

The Union Cabinet is learnt to have cleared a Constitution amendment bill which seeks to give power to states and UTs to make their own OBC lists, sources said on Wednesday. The bill will now be introduced in Parliament for passage, they said. The Supreme Court has dismissed the Centre's plea seeking review of the May 5 majority verdict which held that the 102nd Constitution amendment took away states' power to declare Socially and Educationally Backward Classes( SEBC) for grant of quota in jobs

The violence and its aftermath were a reminder of how little has changed for those at the bottom of India’s rigid social hierarchy. Advertisement With his home and business burned to the ground, Sakat now lives miles away in temporary housing.... In 1950, three years after independence, India banned discrimination against the Dalits and other marginalized communities and created an affirmative action program to help them get government jobs and school placements. Still, prejudice remains pervas

Gujarat's commitment to progress is evident not only in its thriving economy but also in employment statistics, with the state having the labour force participation rate of 44.3 per cent and worker population ratio of 43.3 per cent for all age groups, officials said.... Click here to follow our WhatsApp channel Gujarat's unemployment rate of 2.2 per cent is considerably lower than the national average of 4.2 per cent, thanks to the conducive investment environment created by the government that

The Congress Working Committee( CWC) on Saturday passed a resolution calling for an increase in the existing upper limit of reservations for SCs, STs, and OBCs, news agency PTI reported.... The court further laid out 11 indicators to ascertain a€？... More than 200 lives have been lost, over 500 injured, and more than 5, 000 houses gutted in arson-related incidents....

EVER thought of an all-women cabinet, not 10 per cent among predominantly male ministers, but all of them women?... A compelling reason for this obviously ambitious exercise is that the men have messed it all up.... Assembling cricket or football teams is, of course, old hat....

THERE is a belief that good journalists remain neutral in a conflict between two or more sides.... The ethnic massacres in Rwanda had turned into a single column story below the weather box.... Then one day in Kigali a wire service stringer made an unusual observation about Rwanda’s new murderous capital with its suspicious communities who otherwise shared a common language, colour of skin, mixed marriages and a single church....

Patil, a 27-year-old state police academy applicant, lives in Pune, the city central to India’s vaccine rollout, which is set to begin on Saturday.... India aims to do nothing less than “ protect humanity, ” Mr.... Modi said at an online address to the Indian diaspora recently. Stretched out on an exercise mat along a row of pink Mexican lilacs at the top of Parvati, a hillock popular with early-morning joggers, Mr....