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Akhilesh calls Payal Tadvi's suicide 'murder of constitutional protection
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 28 (ANI): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday termed the death of Dr Payal Salman Tadvi, a medical student in Mumbai, "a murder of the constitutional protection given to the Scheduled Tribes", the community she hailed from.
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Cabinet approves continuation of sub-schemes under 'umbrella programme for
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 14 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave its approval for continuation of sub-schemes under 'umbrella programme for development of Scheduled Tribes (STs)' from April 1, 2017, to March 31, 2020, wit
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Govt gives nod to revision in list of STs of Chhattisgarh
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 14 (ANI): The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave its approval to the Cabinet note on the proposal for official amendments in The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2016 so as to modif
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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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Gehlot approves amendments in Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 2010
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan), [India], Dec 31 (ANI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved the proposal for amendments made in Rules-12 and Rule-17 of the Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 2010.
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Ministries told to fill up SC, ST, OBC vacancies through Special Recruitme
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): The Department of Personnel and Training has (DoPT) issued instructions to all ministries and departments to constitute an in-house committee to identify backlog reserved vacancies, study of the root cause of backlog reserved vacancies, initiate measures to r
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Exclusive courts to deal with SC/ST atrocity cases in Haryana
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana), [India], Dec 4 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to take up the matter on priority basis regarding the setting up of exclusive courts to deal with the cases registered under the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tri
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NCST chairman says Lord Hanuman was a tribal
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Nov 30 (ANI): Days after a legal notice was served to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for claiming that Lord Hanuman was a Dalit, the Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NSCT), Nand Kumar Sai on Friday said that Lord Hanuman belo
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Maharshi Valmiki Jayanti Award for Deve Gowda
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 23 (ANI): Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda will be conferred with the Maharshi Valmiki Jayanti Award for his contribution to the welfare of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes communities.
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Ahead of MP polls, locals oppose caste-based reservation
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Oct 14 (ANI): Ahead of assembly elections in the state, residents in Bhopal have registered protest against caste-based reservation by putting up posters outside their houses asking political parties to not seek votes from people belonging the 'general category'.
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Mayawati welcomes apex court's decision on SC/ST reservation in promotion
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sep 26 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Wednesday welcomed the directives of the apex court on the case pertaining to the reservation in job promotion for the people belonging to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
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No arrest under SC/ST Act without probe in MP: Chouhan
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Balaghat (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Sep 21 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said that no one will be arrested without an investigation under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, in the state.
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