backward classes

New Delhi, March 30 Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to instruct his MPs to conduct thorough research before raising issues in Parliament.This came after BJP MP K Laxman accused the Congress and other opposition parties of appeasement and engaging in...

Jammu, March 29 The State Election Commission is making the necessary arrangements to hold panchayat and urban local body (ULB) elections as soon as possible, the Jammu and Kashmir government has said.The terms of municipalities ended in October-November 2023, while panchayats and block...

New Delhi, March 27 Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti has taken over as the chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC), while Kiran Umesh Mahalle has also joined the commission as a member, according to an official statement released on Friday.Jyoti assumed office on March 18...

Kolkata, March 25 The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Wednesday evening that of the 60 lakh cases classified under the "logical discrepancy" category, the judicial adjudication process has been completed for 32 lakh cases by the judicial officer appointed for the process, as of...

Hyderabad, March 23 – Members of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) staged a protest near the Telangana Assembly building on Monday, demanding the immediate release of funds for fee reimbursements.Before the start of proceedings in the Legislative Assembly and Council, BRS MLAs and MLCs gathered...

Lucknow, March 23 Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said on Monday that his party would introduce a 'Stree Samman-Samriddhi Yojana' aimed at empowering women, whom he described as the 'A' or "half the population" within the PDA social coalition.In a post on his official X account, Yadav...

Jalna, March 22 Shabbir Ahmed Ansari, national president of the All India Muslim OBC Organisation, passed away in Jalna city, Maharashtra, on Sunday after a prolonged illness, according to family sources.He was 79 years old.Ansari was a prominent figure in the Other Backward Classes (OBC)...

Chandigarh, March 17 – Former Haryana Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, stated on Tuesday that the BJP had not refrained from committing the crime of vote-buying in the Rajya Sabha elections after the Assembly elections.“The BJP has vindicated the allegations...

Mumbai, March 17 The Maharashtra assembly passed the Self-Financed Schools Amendment Bill on Tuesday, with Minister Dada Bhuse stating that the law aims to improve regulation, expand access, and ensure better infrastructure for students.The Maharashtra Self-Financed Schools (Establishment and...

Ranchi, March 16 Jharkhand Minister Deepak Birua defended the state government's demands for grants in the Assembly on Monday, saying that recruitment and administrative reforms have been accelerated under the Hemant Soren-led government.Responding to criticism from Opposition BJP lawmakers...

Lucknow, March 15 BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday urged the Centre to confer the Bharat Ratna on party founder Kanshi Ram, and not make the same mistake the Congress did with B R Ambedkar when it came to the award.In a statement on Sunday on the birth anniversary of Kanshi Ram, Mayawati...

New Delhi, March 15 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to posthumously award the Bharat Ratna to Kanshi Ram, the founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), asserting that this would honor the aspirations of millions of people who continue to see him as a symbol...

Lucknow, March 15 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, BSP chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav paid tributes to Kanshi Ram on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Sunday.In a post on X in Hindi...

New Delhi, March 15 The Congress hailed the founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Kanshi Ram, on his birth anniversary, with Rahul Gandhi saying that his tireless struggle and dedication to the rights of the poor, Dalits, and the marginalized serve as "an inspiration to us".Paying tributes to...

Lucknow, March 13 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "psychologically finished", as he criticised the government for "getting nothing" from the interim trade deal with the US and "giving away India's energy security".Speaking at the Samvidhan Sammelan...

Ranchi, March 13 Jharkhand Minister for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes Welfare, Chamra Linda, blamed the Centre on Friday for delaying the release of around Rs 900 crore, saying it had hindered the payment of post-matric scholarships for SC/ST and OBC students in the...

Lucknow, March 13 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that if Jawaharlal Nehru had been alive, Kanshi Ram would have been made Chief Minister by the Congress.Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, died in 1964, while Kanshi Ram emerged on the political scene with the founding of BAMCEF...

New Delhi, March 12 The Supreme Court has ruled that the "creamy layer" status for reservation of OBCs cannot be decided solely based on parental income, and that treating similarly placed employees of private entities and PSUs differently from government employees, when deciding on reservation...

New Delhi, March 9 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Monday that the BJP claims to help the OBCs, but in reality, their government has given nothing to the backward classes, urging the women workers of his party's OBC Department to convey this message to the people.Gandhi also said that the...

Hyderabad, March 4 The Telangana Commission for Backward Classes urged the state Chief Secretary on Wednesday to take measures to include the 40 backward castes in the state on the Centre's OBC list before the census exercise begins in the state.In a letter to the Chief Secretary, the...