Bharat Bandh: The Reservation Bachao Sangharsh Samiti has urged all business organisations to keep markets closed during the day-long protest. However, it is not clear if markets will remain shut or not.
The Supreme Court had ruled that states must evolve a policy for identifying the creamy layer even among the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Schedule Tribes (ST) and deny them the benefit of reservation.
Senior JD (U) leader and state minister Ashok Choudhary came out with a statement attacking RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, a day after the RJD leader announced his plans to undertake the yatra from August 15.
The Supreme Court said that states are empowered to make sub-classifications of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for granting quotas inside the reserved category to uplift more underprivileged castes.
Jharkhand govt on Wednesday also gave its nod to a proposal to use the 1932 land records to determine those who are local inhabitants.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday amended the Panchayati Raj rules, making provision for reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women in the district development councils.
Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a Constitution amendment bill to extend reservation to SCs and STs in Lok Sabha and state assemblies by another ten years, with Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserting that the quota in legislatures was required to build a new political leadership of the two communities.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to extend the reservation for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies for another 10 years, highly placed sources said. The reservation for these categories in the LS and the assemblies was to expire on January 25, 2020.
The representation of SC and ST members in central government services is more than the prescribed percentage while that of other backward classes is lower, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Mumbai: Many of the ‘benami' flats (the flats held in the name of a proxy buyer) in the scam-tainted Adarsh Society here were purchased under the quotas for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and ‘weaker sections
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