Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar Azad claims that 54 per cent of the people belonging to Scheduled Castes do not own any land in the country, while a particular caste dominates and enjoys all privileges. read more

A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna said that reservation of any class comes into play only during admissions. read more

The issue dates back to 2002, when the Karnataka government had enacted a similar law, which was challenged for its validity under the Constitution. read more

Rutvik Patel was only 14 years old in 2015 when his community’s agitations for government quotas in higher education and jobs blazed through Gujarat. Hundreds of thousands of young Patidars poured into the streets from Surat to Ahmedabad. They burnt... read more

The Union Cabinet on Thursday rolled back a controversial faculty hiring system for universities and colleges that had angered SC, ST and OBC communities — the second time in seven months the Centre has reversed a court order following protests. read more

The Narendra Modi government will bring an ordinance within a day or two to reintroduce the 200 point roaster in appointment of faculty members that was invalidated by the Supreme Court in its January 22 order, union minister Ram Vilas Paswan said at... read more

The reservation will be provided in direct recruitment to group — A, B, C and D posts in the departments, boards, corporations, local bodies of the state. read more

Pakistan on Thursday said it has conveyed reservations over Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj’s presence at the upcoming Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in the UAE. read more

A bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna, however, refused to stay the implementation of the amendment. read more

They are a manifestation of deepening fault lines in our democracy. They will benefit only a minuscule minority. read more

Dwarka Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati has disapproved of the Centre’s decision to provide 10% reservation to economically poor in general category and said that quota, be it on the basis of caste or economic status, was wrong. read more

Reservation will be futile unless we improve the quality of school education for the poor and disadvantaged sections. read more

The Samast Brahmin Samaj, Maharashtra has maintained that a huge section of the Brahmins in the state is still backward and does not earn enough through their employment as priests. read more

18 million people between 18 and 23 are estimated to vote for the first time in this year’s Lok Sabha polls. What do they want? In Haryana’s Mahendragarh, which has the lowest sex ratio in the country, this 19-year-old woman will vote for Narendra Modi’s... read more

This is the time to reconsider this system (of reservation) too. Are we not creating a new section of the deprived along with the upliftment of the oppressed classes? read more