On the afternoon of November 21, when Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil arrived at an auditorium in Thane, two hours from Mumbai, the 1,000-seater venue was overflowing with people, with many happy ...

From time to time, the controversial issue of sub-caste reservation has been brought before the Supreme Court for its constitutional validity. In the recent case in 2024 the Supreme Court had to ...

The Supreme Court’s seven-judge constitution bench ruling on sub-classification of Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) categories required an exhaustive study and a report by a commission.

“Begin at the beginning, the king said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland For millenniums, caste has been cast in stone in ...

Following the BJP government's announcement that a caste census will be conducted alongside the general census expected to begin this year, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi renewed his demand to remove ...

On Tuesday, Union home minister Amit Shah said the government will soon conduct the decennial Census that was deferred in 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the fact that he stopped short ...

Alleging that the NDA governments at the Centre and in Bihar were against caste census and reservation, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday asserted that such an enumeration was "like an X-ray", ...

Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar on Monday released findings of Bihar's caste survey which revealed that OBCs and EBCs constitute 63 per cent of the state’s total ...

Mumbai: Former CM and Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Tuesday said a Bihar-type caste-based survey appears to be the way out to increase the reservation limit beyond 50 per cent. “We will be able to ...

On Monday, when the schedule for polls in five states was unveiled, the Congress pledged to conduct a nationwide Caste Census, implement OBC quota within women's quota and bring in a law to remove the ...