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"Dedicated his life to service of Sanatan tradition": UP CM Yogi Adityanat
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited the Panchanan Puri Peeth to pay tribute to the late Mahant Ramdas on Wednesday. A cheque of Rs 4 lakh 12 thousand was given to his wife, Devi, as the first instalment under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act.
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Reserved-quota students now outnumber General category in higher education
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Research by a team from IIM Udaipur has found that students from Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) outnumber General Category students' enrolment into higher education, a press release by academic research platform CasteFiles said.
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Assam Cabinet approves report on proposal to grant ST status to 6 communit
Updated : 3 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Announcing the cabinet decisions, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the state cabinet has approved the GoM report on the proposal to grant ST status to six major communities of the state, namely Tai Ahom, Chutia, Moran, Motok, Koch-Rajbongshi, and Tea Tribes (Adivasis). Read More
BJP's Sanjay Jaiswal accuses Tejashwi Yadav of being "anti-reservation"
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"Tejashwi Yadav is anti-reservation. He is anti-backward classes. This is why, as long as Lalu Yadav was in power, neither the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, nor the Extremely Backward Classes received reservations in the Panchayati Raj system. When Nitish Kumar came to power, ev
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BJP govt is pro-poor, committed to tribal justice: Union Agriculture Minis
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Union Minister of Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the BJP government is pro-poor and committed to tribal justice.
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Assam cabinet exempts Tea Tribe, Moran-Motok, ST communities from State Po
Updated : 5 months ago IST
The Assam cabinet on Thursday decided to exempt members of the Tea Tribe, Moran, Motok and Scheduled Tribe communities from the provision of restricting the number of children to two under the State Population Policy.
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HP SC/ST Commission reviews Chirgaon suicide case, urge strict action from
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The Chairperson of the Himachal Pradesh Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, Kuldeep Kumar, along with other Members of the Commission, visited the Police Headquarters, Shimla, on Tuesday to discuss the case of Chirgaon, District Shimla of an unfortunate incident of suicide c
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Chandigarh Police file FIR against Haryana DGP, Rohtak SP over IPS officer
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The FIR, filed at Police Station Sector 11 under Sections 108 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and Section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, cites abetment to suicide and caste-based harassment.
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Karnataka HC upholds state's socio-economic survey, stipulates voluntary p
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
In its ruling, the court emphasised that participation in the survey must be voluntary, directing the authorities to issue a clear notification regarding this condition.
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Assam: SSP Leena Doley attached to police headquarters after lathi charge
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The development comes in the wake of injuries sustained by several individuals during a torchlight procession held by the All Koch Rajbongshi Students' Union (AKRASU) on September 10 in the Golakganj area of Dhubri. The protestors were demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Koch Rajbo
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SC says abolition of Waqf-by-user not prima facie arbitrary
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the provision in the Waqf Amendment Act 2025, which abolished the concept of 'Waqf-by-user', and said prima facie deletion of the provision in the amendment "cannot be said to be arbitrary."
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Golokganj Police Station Officer-in-Charge suspended: Assam Minister Jayan
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Minister Baruah said, "The Officer-in-Charge of Golokganj Police Station has been suspended. The Officer-in-Charge of Gauripur Police Station has been put under the reserve clause. The process of granting Scheduled Tribe status to six communities, including the Koch-Rajbongshi, is being purs
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