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Thursday, October 23, 2025
TopicQuota bill

Topic: quota bill

Our take on Trump assassination attempt, Karnataka jobs quota bill & gold smuggling — in 50 words

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

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

Moushumi Das Gupta -
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

Kritika Sharma -
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

Jyoti Malhotra -
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

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

Sanya Dhingra -
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

Ruhi Tewari -
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

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

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Opinion

In Bihar, BJP is courting upper castes—a clear shift from its 2020 strategy

Arvind Kumar -
With two parties led by Dalit leaders now part of NDA, the BJP is hopeful of winning a large number of reserved constituencies.

India is unprepared for its demographic shift — elderly outnumbering children

India can’t achieve strategic autonomy by chasing GDP stats. Break away from Western influence

Economy

Boom to bust: Haunted by Ketan Parekh saga, 117-yr-old Calcutta Stock Exchange’s future lies in limbo

Sampurna Panigrahi -
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001. 

Defence

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

National Interest

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Shekhar Gupta -
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.

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