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Budget '18 offers boost for SCs/STs
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Presenting the Union Budget 2018-19 in the Parliament here on Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the total earmarked allocation for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in 279 programmes has been increased from Rs 34,334 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 52,719 cror
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AP Govt passes resolution to include Boyas, Valmikis in ST list
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 02 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh government passed a resolution to include Boyas, Valmikis and related sub sects of Andhra Pradesh in Scheduled Tribes (STs).
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Telangana CM waives off pending power dues of STs
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 19 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has announced the waiver of all pending power dues of the Scheduled Tribe category, as well as the lifting of electrical cases against them in the state.
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Nitish bats for reservation in private sector
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India] Nov. 6 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday batted for reservation in the private sector.
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Search operations for crew of Mexican Navy Ship underway
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], June 12 (ANI): The Indian Navy has launched a "Search and Rescue" operation to look for a lady cadet who has reportedly fallen overboard from Mexican Sail Training Ship (STS) Cuauhtemoc, at 14:00 hours yesterday in position about 560 Nm west of Goa.
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Eyeing MCD, Kejriwal promises SC-ST Commission in Delhi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 14 (ANI): Post the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) debacle in Rajouri Garden bye-poll, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday tried to woo people of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) to recover political capital in upcoming Municipal Corporat
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Telangana Govt. to bring new reservation act to raise ST quota, include Mu
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Apr. 12 (ANI): The Telangana Government on Wednesday decided to extend the reservations to Muslim population apart from raising the existing quota of the scheduled tribes (STs) to 12 percent.
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Telangana Assembly to pass two legislations to enhance reservation for STs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana)[India], Mar 12 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has said that the state assembly will pass two legislations during the ongoing Budget Session to enhance reservation for the Scheduled Tribes and Muslims.
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Remembering Kalpana Chawla: Girl who dreamt of stars
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 1 (ANI): Today is the death anniversary of the first India-born woman astronaut Kalpana Chawla. In the year 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 was re-entering Earth's atmosphere, the space shuttle burnt and disintegrated into pieces killing all the cre
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KCR for comprehensive plan for welfare of SCs, STs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan. 27(ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday expressed his agony that despite several programmes, schemes and plans for the SC/STs since independence, there is still poverty among these communities.
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