Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said in earlier governments, the poor and SC/ST members were deprived of not only government schemes but also of ration.
The undergraduate admissions, which the university held through Common University Entrance Test (CUET) scores for the first time, concluded in December.
Officials said a tax officer of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) met with Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale in Mumbai on Monday. The meeting comes after the former filed a complaint against a number...
The commission headed by BP Mandal, commonly known as the Mandal Commission, recommended reservation for the other backward classes (OBCs) as part of the affirmative action programme for their betterment.
The Centre filed an affidavit on Wednesday opposing the plea seeking the inclusion of Scheduled Caste converts to Christianity in the list of Scheduled Castes.
In a police complaint, the boy's father alleged that the teacher beat him with sticks and rods until he fell unconscious after he spelt a word wrong in the social science test.
As the Women’s Reservation Bill is placed on the table of the Loksabha promising 33% reservation to the women, the debates over the representation of marginalised women have again taken the political centre stage.
The Opposition party also demanded the Narendra Modi government should implement the SC/ST Act with 'full force'.
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 &...
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced that 685 candidates have qualified the prestigious civil services examination.
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...
Jakhar could be heard saying this in a video -- that has surfaced online -- while addressing a gathering in Abohar on Tuesday.
This will be over and above the monthly pension of Rs 1,500 being given to them. This financial assistance will be credited directly into their bank accounts.
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...
Soren, however, said, "There has been no interference from the government (in conducting examinations).
Bihar craves fresh policy ideas at the top, and better, more imaginative politics at every level.
Without naming anyone, he said, "For 75 years, these political leaders and parties deliberately kept the government schools in a bad shape so that the poor and...
Observers feel that the smaller OBC castes, which were earlier with SP in significant numbers and shifted to the BSP to a reasonable extent in 2007, gradually...
In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the government has said that caste enumeration in Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 was “fraught” with...
'Atrocities are still happening against backward communities. Though there have been government interventions to end caste- based discriminations from the...
This huge number of certificates were issued following a flood of applications triggered by the Bengal CM's scheme for monthly financial assistance to female...
'Data shows that 65.7 per cent of households belonging to the general category have access to improved, non-shared sanitation facilities, while only 25.9 per...