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Punjab Cong demands action against Minister Dhaliwal for violating election guidelines Jalandhar: Condemning the AAP’s “cheap” tactics to woo voters, Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Thursday demanded action against Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal for

Chandigarh, April 27: The Haryana government will initiate social auditing of 10 schemes of Social Justice, Empowerment, Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes and Antyodaya (SEWA) Department to ensure transparency and accountability in the implementation of government schemes and programmes, it was announced on Thursday.

Questioning the decision of the Bihar government to release the murder convict and former MP Anand Mohan Singh from Jail, All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz Chairman and Former JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Ali Anwar on Friday said that the decision gives wrong message to Dalits and backward Muslims.

Bhubaneswar, April 25: The Odisha Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday approved a proposal for the promulgation of an Ordinance, enabling the state government for the inclusion of 22 castes/communities in the State list of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBCs).

Overall, the Karnataka election result, to a large extent, will hinge on how much the major parties can safeguard their core vote-banks in key geographies. And the extent to which the Lingayat and Vokkaliga vote may shift

The state government said that two orders dated March 27, 4 per cent reservation in favour of Muslims was deleted and the members of the community were allowed to claim benefit of reservation under EWS scheme which is at 10 per cent (In EWS Scheme there are other communities namely, Brahmins, Aryavyashyas etc.).The

Reservation solely on the basis of religion is unconstitutional since it not only violates the mandates of Articles 14, 15, and 16 of the Indian Constitution, but also militates against the...

The Karnataka government told the Supreme Court that it took a conscious decision not to continue with the reservation for the Muslim community on the sole basis of religion since it is unconstitutional and contrary to the mandate of Article 14 ...

The state government said that two orders dated March 27, 4 per cent reservation in favour of Muslims was deleted and the members of the community were allowed to claim benefit of reservation under EWS scheme which is at 10 per cent (In EWS Scheme there are other communities namely, Brahmins, Aryavyashyas etc.).The

The two traditionally powerful caste groups, Lingayats and Vokkaligas, virtually controlled state politics between 1956 and 1972 and the L-V caste equation powered the Congress’s political hold over Karnataka until the mid-1970s