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Uma Bharti writes letter to PM Modi and demands quota for backward women in Womens Reservation Bill

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India's lower house of parliament passed a bill Wednesday that would more than double the number of women lawmakers in its ranks, following several failed attempts to enact the measure stretching back decades.Six earlier attempts to pass the bill stalled in the decades since it was first introduced in 1996, with sometimes vehement resistance from lawmakers.

The President of India, Droupadi Murmu, inaugurated the Annual General Meeting and Biennial Conference of the Asia Pacific Forum on Human Rights in New

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's parliament on Wednesday approved a landmark bill to reserve a third of its seats in the lower house and state assemblies for women to boost female participation in politics that had been disproportionately low for decades. Women now comprise nearly half of India's 950 million registered voters but only 15% of lawmakers in parliament and 10% in state assemblies, leaving the world's largest democracy at the bottom of global rankings on gender parity in ...

Rahul Gandhi extends support for Women's Reservation Bill but also says that bill is incomplete without OBC reservation.

Parliament Special Session Highlights: The five-day session began on Tuesday and is taking place in the new complex inaugurated this year.

The new Parliament building, on its second day of functioning, made history by passing the long-awaited Women’s Reservation Bill, rebranded as the “Nari Shakti Vandana Adhiniyam”, with an overwhelming majority in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present during the

The court clarified that it will not delve into the validity of prior extensions granted for SC & ST reservations through earlier amendments

The earliest that the Census exercise can now happen is 2025 – houselisting in 2024 followed by the actual Census and the publication would take one to two years.