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Hockey veteran booked on charges of using fake caste certificate to get j
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 14 (ANI): The Hyderabad police on Wednesday booked triple Olympian and former India hockey team captain Mukesh Kumar for allegedly illegally obtaining a Scheduled Caste (SC) certificate.
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Mention caste, sub-caste: Congress feedback form asks party workers
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 13 (ANI): After the recent Congress roadshow in Lucknow, party workers meeting with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia in Uttar Pradesh are being asked to fill in a feedback form that asks for their caste and sub-caste as well as details of
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I will thrash those who talk about caste: Nitin Gadkari
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 10 (ANI): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said he will thrash those who talk about caste.
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AP Assembly passes resolution seeking reservation for converted Christians
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Feb 6 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh assembly on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution appealing for providing reservation to the converted Christians as per their native Schedule Caste category.
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Delegation from Nepal visits NHRC in New Delhi
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): A delegation from Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is visiting the Indian NHRC from February 4 to February 8 to have an overview of the functioning of the Commission.
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'I don’t do caste politics like PM Modi': BJP's Rajveer Singh Diler
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 30 (ANI): A BJP MLA from Aligarh Uttar Pradesh was heard saying that "he does not do caste politics like Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
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Supreme Court to hear pleas against amendments in SC/ST Act
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 30 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday posted for February 19 for final hearing of pleas challenging SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2018 that rule out any provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of atrocities against SC/STs and review
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Nitish Kumar urges for caste-based census
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) (India), Jan 25 (ANI): Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called for a caste-based census in 2021, citing that the population of the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes had gone up from the previous estima
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Tejashwi denounces Bill on reservation for upper caste poor, accuses BJP o
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Jan 24 (ANI): RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday hit out at the central government for implementing 10 per cent reservation for the economically backward among the upper castes.
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SC refuses to stay amendments to SC/ST Act
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India] Jan 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2018 that rule out any provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of atrocities against SC/STs.
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Andhra Pradesh cabinet decides to give quota for Kapus community, EBCs
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Jan 22 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh cabinet has decided to cater five per cent reservation each for Kapu community and the economically backward classes (EBCs) among the forward castes.
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Madras HC seeks Centre's reply on DMK petition challenging 10% quota to po
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Jan 21 (ANI): The Madras High Court has issued a notice to central government seeking a reply on 10 percent reservation for economically poor upper caste, before February 18.
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