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TopicQuota bill

Topic: quota bill

‘Are women less than cows?’ TMC’s Mahua Moitra attacks govt on delay in implementing quota Bill

The feisty MP said the govt built cow shelters without counting the bovines, while the women’s Bill will have to wait for the Census.

Quota seats for SC, ST students in higher education remain vacant, OBCs fare better

As the Centre introduces a 10% quota for 'poor' upper castes, data shows that little has been done to improve education enrolment for SCs and STs

How Modi left the opposition ashen-faced with 10% upper caste arithmetic

Even if the Supreme Court strikes it down, the BJP would have already won political credit for being the party to think through this highly contentious idea.  

‘Modi power’ running in reserve, and powers cut for reinstated CBI chief

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Junior social justice minister didn’t know of 10% quota bill even on day it came to Lok Sabha

LS website contains details of an unstarred question in which MoS Krishan Pal Gurjar has stated that govt was not considering any such quota proposal.

We may be late but at least we dared to bring the 10% quota bill: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad underlines that Parliament can amend the Constitution, says 50% quota cap has only come up in SC judgments.  

Modi’s quota bill is just a band-aid solution and doesn’t promise more jobs

Clearly, politicians get their worst ideas when they are in the last legs of their tenures.

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A war in the Gulf, a crisis in Gujarat’s Morbi: India’s ceramics capital counts the cost

Morbi makes 80-90% of India’s ceramic exports. The West Asia conflict has cut its propane supply, shutting 200 factories and threatening 400 more—along with 9 lakh livelihoods.

India-Bangladesh relations on track—After military intel chief’s visit, envoy goes to Army War College

In a first during his tenure as High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah addressed JOCAP consisting of tri-forces officers, as New Delhi & Dhaka step up normalisation efforts.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.