The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) team, which reached trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Thursday morning, has received over 23 complaints of......
The Chhattisgarh High Court on Friday quashed an order of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes rejecting the ST certificate of former chief minister Ajit Jogi. A......
The Election Commission wrote separate letters to Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, asking them to comment on the complaints filed by the other side.......
The Madras high court has held that the concept of communal reservation or reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes of citizens would not apply to minority......
The government has no plans to release at this stage the caste data collected under the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. IMAGE: A census exercise......
Rather than a blind reproduction of the government template, a more productive way of enforcing affirmative action in the private sector could be to emulate an American model, suggests Kanika......
Tenants dwelling in prime properties of Jain temples for years may have to vacate these; government interference in institutions and trusts of the community will cease to exist; and there will be......
To rope in more allies ahead of the general elections, the United Progressive Alliance government might redefine the criteria for allocation of funds under the Backward Region Grant Fund and......
World Bank President James D Wolfensohn on Wednesday appreciated India's high economic growth and poverty reduction efforts in the last decade and had a word of praise for Indian corporates, but......
The government's decision to allow private airlines to operate in the Saarc countries may have cheered up private operators, which until now accused the Centre of favouring state carriers, but it......