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Maharaja Ganga Singh University invites applications for Faculty posts with 60 vacancies in 2024 recruitment.

Congress fields the same number of Muslims, and one more woman candidate as compared to 2018; 8 additional tribals in list (all Meenas) against 25 ST seats

Gujjars now under MBC, Rajasthan cites Centre's EWS rule; Patidars get Gujarat EWS cover; Haryana Jats wait for Supreme Court's decision; Andhra keeps Kapu hopes in suspension

OBCs, the beneficiaries of 27% reservation in Central Govt jobs, are not a monolith. Within the OBC are hundreds of castes, all at different levels of marginalisation. States have long sought to dice the OBC quota to ensure equity, but subcategorisation at the central level has seen difficulties

5597 Radhika Ramaseshan Senior journalist Uttar Pradesh is in a political churn a little over a year before it votes. The social hierarchy that evolved in the post-Mandal, post-Ayodhya phases has become shaky. While the order that was built and re-built since the ’90s by the principal political players — the BJP, the SP and the BSP — is still not seriously challenged, the early tremors leading to a long-term transmutation are palpable. The BJP, SP and BSP, that took caste allegiances for ...