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Tuesday, July 22, 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 -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

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

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

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

Keshav Padmanabhan -
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.

Defence

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

Snehesh Alex Philip -
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.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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