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Delhi Social Welfare Minister writes to UPSC, alleges discrimination in aw
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): Delhi Cabinet Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam on Friday wrote a letter to UPSC chairman Pradeep Kumar Joshi, raising the issue of "caste-based discrimination faced by many candidates belonging to the reserved categories in UPSC interviews".
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SC dismisses plea of fixing time limits of caste-based reservations expiry
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Supreme Court on Friday dismissed as withdrawn a petition filed by a MBBS doctor, seeking appropriate directions to fix the time limits for expiry of caste-based reservations in education.
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Caste-based census not Nitish Kumar's formula, says Tejaswi Yadav
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], February 18 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Tejaswi Yadav on Thursday said chief minister Nitish Kumar was attempting to appropriate veteran socialist leader and former chief minister Karpoori Thakur's demand for caste-based census.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar calls for caste-based census
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], February 17 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday again voiced the demand for a caste-based census.
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Census 2011 finalised and published, sans caste data: Home Ministry
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday said in Rajya Sabha that the data of Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) conducted in 2011 excluding the caste data has been finalised and published.
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Maharashtra Cabinet clears proposal to rename all residential colonies hav
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 2 (ANI): Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday has cleared a proposal to rename all residential colonies having caste-based names.
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Rahul Gandhi highlights caste-based discrimination in Hathras, urges peopl
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI): Sharing a clip which highlights the caste-divide in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, where a Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped and murdered, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday urged the people to bring a change.
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Manual scavenging-- a caste-based discrimination that persists in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): It's a cultural, traditional inertia of sorts that the descendants of lower-caste Hindus who converted to Christianity centuries ago still find themselves marginalized and subjected to menial labour, including manual scavenging in Pakistan.
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RS Deputy Chair praises Nitish Kumar for working on development agenda, en
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 19 (ANI): Deputy Chairman Rajya Sabha Harivansh on Thursday praised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for working on the development agenda, changing caste-based politics and forcing political parties to contest polls for the welfare of people.
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Uddhav Thackeray-led delegation to meet Amit Shah to demand caste-based ce
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 29 (ANI): Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said a delegation led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray would meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah to demand caste-based census to calculate the exact population of Other Backward Classes (OBC) to ensure
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Bihar Assembly passes unanimous resolution in favour of caste-based census
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Patna [Bihar], Feb 27 (ANI): Bihar assembly on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution in favour of a caste-based census.
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Bihar Assembly adopts resolution to not implement NRC; Nitish seeks caste-
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Feb 25 (ANI): The Bihar Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution to not implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state. The Assembly also passed a resolution to implement the National Population Register (NPR) but in its 2010 form, with an amendment.
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