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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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UPSC Civil Services Exam has been reduced to a memory test. That’s not how you select officers

India’s civil services were once called the ‘steel frame’. But steel is forged in fire, not moulded in a coaching class. While dilution has made the exam easier, it has also made it harder to find the game-changers we need.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.