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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicOther Backwards Castes

Topic: Other Backwards Castes

IPS suicide rocks Haryana bureaucracy. Calls to remove accused officers with ‘power to influence probe’

Haryana officers say false FIRs & direct arrests of Dalits or those from weaker backgrounds among them are used by the anti-corruption bureau to show off its successes.

Mayawati strives to rebrand self, BSP ahead of key assembly bypolls, one move at a time

Reversing its position, BSP has decided to contest all 10 seats in upcoming assembly bypolls, and is inducting more OBC and Muslim faces. It has also reduced the membership fee.

IAS trainee Puja Khedkar’s ‘false’ OBC certificate highlights ‘lapses’ in UPSC, DoPT verification process

The 2023 batch IAS officer had allegedly submitted an OBC non-creamy layer certificate. Centre has constituted a committee to inquire into the matter and verify her candidature claims.

No proposal to revise OBC non-creamy layer limit at present, govt tells Rajya Sabha

The income criterion for the creamy layer is revised every three years to adjust inflation. OBC outfits have been lobbying to have the policy of creamy layer done away with.

‘Can’t oppose it, can’t endorse’ is BJP’s caste survey predicament, writes Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

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.

Rohini Commission report ‘addresses Hindu-Muslim anomaly’ in OBC quota for occupational groups

Report on sub-categorisation of OBCs submitted to President. Panel found that in some states, Muslims from certain occupational groups have OBC status while Hindus don't, it is learnt.

Why Modi’s Cabinet reshuffle doesn’t really benefit SCs, STs and OBCs

As long as there are foreign-educated, dominant-caste ministers who find a Cabinet position via Rajya Sabha, SCs, STs and OBCs will continue to lose out.

Supreme Court says states are free to give quota in promotions to SC, ST candidates

Supreme Court also says states willing to give reservations to SCs and STs will no longer need to collect data on backwardness.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.