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Saturday, July 19, 2025
TopicBackward castes

Topic: Backward castes

‘Reverse discrimination’: Justice Bela Trivedi’s dissent in SC sub-classification case

Supreme Court ruled in favour of states' right to grant separate quotas to weakest among weaker castes. Trivedi was the only among 7 judges to dissent, saying it violates Article 14.

Andhra to go for caste ‘census’, results to be out before assembly polls next year

Political analyst says Jagan’s census plan will disrupt rival TDP’s backward caste votebank, TDP calls it ‘ploy to identify party sympathisers & tamper with voter lists’.

Caste census will be INDIA’s rallying point in run up to 2024, but why BJP may not be overly anxious yet

Ruling party has learnt to counter conventional identity-based social justice politics as seen in its move to boost OBC representation & focus on delivering welfare schemes.

Rahul Gandhi’s jitni abadi utna haq should begin with Indian media

Of the 44 chief and senior editors of the top 18 national English television, print and digital media publications, nearly all are upper caste.

Maurya hits out at ‘contractors of religion’ & ‘community that thinks abuse is its right’

SP leader and former UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya has been in news for his comments on verses of Ramcharitmanas that he believes are hurtful to ‘97 per cent of people’ in India.

How to beat JD(U)-RJD caste maths? BJP to focus on EBCs & Mahadalits, hunt for ‘vibrant’ leader

Bihar BJP says party hopes to find a balance between caste politics and Hindutva, especially with former ally, CM Nitish Kumar, conducting a state-wide caste census.

The big move behind Akhilesh Yadav’s alliances with smaller players in Uttar Pradesh

Apna Dal, SBSP, and Jan Adhikar Party are among half-a-dozen small political players that have formed an alliance with the SP.

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Critical minerals are the new oil. India can’t afford to depend on China

Mineral security is no longer just an economic concern but a national security imperative, underpinning the country’s ambitions in clean energy, defence self-reliance, and advanced manufacturing.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

RSS chief Bhagwat draws the line at 75. India’s politics stares at the Modi Exception

BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.