Maurya has, once again, engaged in a gamble, one that is fraught with political and personal risks. He has dared to question the sanctity of one of the most popular Hindu epics Ramcharitmanas, months before the BJP-led...
Pasmanda is a Persian word that means 'the ones left behind'. It is used to refer to the backward community within the Muslim population.
Bihar: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi CM Nitish Kumar demanded the resignation of his ex-boss whom he squarely blamed for the adverse judgement of Patna High Court that declared as ‘illegal’ quotas for OBCs and EBCs.
The petition had contended that concrete policies cannot be formulated in the absence of concrete data.
RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav claimed CBI and ED actions against him were an outcome of his efforts to unite opposition parties.
"If the BJP continues with its Hindu-Muslim campaign, it won’t gain politically," says former Additional Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Anis Ansari
Kasani Gnaneswar took over as Telangana's TDP president on Thursday.
A student association on Friday alleged that the seats reserved for OBC, SC and ST categories were not filled up while admitting students to the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII) for the academic year 2021.
Empowered with access to the internet and burgeoning social media platforms, the rise of new platforms run by Dalit youth and others indicate the emergence of...
The results of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls will depend on the stitching of electoral alliances with OBCs and poaching of their leaders. Other issues may be...
AICC national coordinator K Raju said that the panel on social justice and empowerment formed by party chief Sonia Gandhi took a decision on this issue at...
A two-day Scheduled Castes Morcha meet by the state BJP worked out a three-month strategy to hold a sammelan at the constituency level that will inform the...
In the Hindi belt’s transactional politics, more and more caste groups are asserting their identity by harking back to historical or mythical icons, to...
The Mandal Commission also used levels of education and income as indicators to determine which castes to list as backward. However, in computing the final...
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the Dalits and the backward castes had become angry with the party in the last few years but now they are back with...
UP Election: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and former chief minister Mayawati said her party will reinstate rule of law in Uttar Pradesh.
The Madras High Court judgment quashed the law on internal reservation of 10.5 percent to the Vanniyar community under the Most Backward Classes category.
Has the Hindutva consolidation reached saturation, or will caste assertion make a comeback in the 2022 assembly polls?
The exodus of influential ministers and MLAs from BJP highlights the complexities of ‘social justice’
In a joint statement, the two leaders said the Friday judgement of the apex court was a 'victory' to the party's long-pending and sustained plea on the OBC...
The contributions of both Tamil Nadu, a pioneering state committed to social justice and that of the DMK would find a place in history for sure, the Dravidian...
In a tweet, MP Congress chief Kamal Nath supported the stir and said the BJP government in the state was quelling the protest by force despite claiming to be...
Voting was scheduled in January-February for the multi-phase elections to gram panchayats and the process of filing nominations for the first and second phases...
Supreme Court had directed the State Election Commission (SEC) of Maharashtra to notify 27 per cent seats in the local body, which were reserved for the OBCs,...
It has also urged the apex court to direct the local body elections to be deferred for four months with a mandate to the state government to come out with the...
