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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...

Hyderabad, March 4, Telangana Commission for Backward Classes said that the census in Telangana should only begin after the central government includes 40 castes in the central OBC list.Chairman of the Commission, G. Niranjan, has written a letter to Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao...

Mumbai, March 3 The Maharashtra government has decided to rename 416 hostels run by the Social Justice Department after the eminent social reformers, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Savitribai Phule, officials said on Tuesday.According to a government resolution (GR) issued by the Social Justice and...

Ranchi, February 26 Jharkhand Minister Chamra Linda stated that the state government will enact a law to prevent the diversion of funds from the Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP), ensuring they are used solely for the benefit of the tribal population.Responding to a question in the Jharkhand Assembly, the...

Chandigarh, February 25 Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Wednesday that under the BJP government, jobs have been given based on merit, as opposed to the recruitments done during the previous Congress regime.Responding to an adjournment motion brought by the Congress in the...

Chandigarh, February 25 – The Haryana Congress staged a protest here on Wednesday against the BJP government over the alleged renaming and weakening of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), accusing it of attempting to undermine social security provisions for the...

Lucknow, February 25 Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Wednesday that notices were being issued to voters on a large scale during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and described the exercise as the BJP's "vote suppression" (depriving someone of the right to vote) after...

Hyderabad, February 23 The Telangana Commission for Backward Classes on Monday sought reports from state government officials regarding the death of a baby following alleged assault and caste abuse against her family members in the Nagarkurnool district while visiting a temple fair.In separate...

New Delhi, February 23 The Supreme Court on Monday sought details of backward Muslim communities while hearing a plea seeking quota in jobs and admissions under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category for 'Pasmanda Muslims'."What about the other Muslim OBCs? The OBC is not only a social...