Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has also questioned the government’s commitment, raising a similar concern & calling the exercise 'just another BJP gimmick'.
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.
Students, professors & civil society members have written to President of India, slamming Harisingh Gour University's decision to confer D.Litt degree on Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya.
AAP had slammed BJP over Home Minister Amit Shah’s controversial remarks on Babasaheb Ambedkar. The Dalit community constitutes over 16% of Delhi’s population.
SC has allowed states to sub-classify Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes for reservation, but they can do so only on basis of demonstrable data on backwardness and representation.
National Foundation for India report on coal-dependent districts in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand & Odisha finds that caste-based inequalities stand in the way of just transition to clean energy.
On 4 April 1968, Bansgaon MP Molhu Prasad delivered a speech in the Lok Sabha on the atrocities against the Scheduled Castes and their negligible representation despite reservation.
Siddaramaiah-led Congress govt has announced it would urge Centre to introduce an amendment to Article 341 to empower state governments to provide internal reservation.
SP, Congress, BJP & ASP plan outreach programmes for Dalit community. BSP chief Mayawati calls them ‘new well-wishers’ of party founder, says 'posing for sake of votes' ahead of 2024.
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.
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.
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