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TopicScheduled Tribes

Topic: Scheduled Tribes

Medical colleges set up for Schedule Caste can’t have general quota ceiling. HC misread it

The Allahabad High Court's misinterpretation lies in treating four special medical colleges in UP as ordinary educational establishments, when these colleges were conceived as instruments of constitutional justice.

Siddaramaiah’s push to include Kurubas in ST fold ruffles complex caste dynamics in Karnataka 

The CM has for decades been advocating for Kurubas' inclusion in the ST fold, which would not just further consolidate his support base but also become part of his legacy.

What’s behind Goa BJP govt’s renewed push for bill to reserve assembly seats for STs

Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has raised the pitch over a key bill to enable political quotas for Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Goa,...

Affirmative action beyond jobs: Why HC upheld 1994 quota for SC/ST bidders in PSU transport contracts

Some BPCL contractors challenged guidelines issued by Centre on 18 August 1994. Policy mandates reservation to SC/ST bidders in transport contracts by oil marketing companies.

Finance ministry gets 2 secretaries from Northeast—a Kuki-Zomi and a Mao Naga, both from Manipur

Vumlunmang Vualnam named expenditure secy, K Moses Chalai secretary, Dept of Public Enterprises. This is 1st time Centre's appointed ST members from Northeast as finance ministry secys.

40,000 scholarships pending: Haryana SC/ST & OBCs panel flags gross lapses in welfare & fund use

Report presented in Haryana assembly highlights serious concerns over the backlog of reserved category vacancies in govt jobs and underutilisation of funds for state programmes.

SC grants inheritance rights to ST women via 1875 law, urges Centre to amend their succession laws

Judgment is significant because there is no specific law governing intestate succession among Scheduled Tribes, who are also excluded from provisions of Hindu Succession Act.

Tribal land being usurped in name of mosques, must be returned, VHP tells joint panel on Waqf Bill

As Jharkhand polls approach, VHP has written to joint committee on waqf bill, requesting provisions in law to ensure waqf boards don't 'violate' constitutional protections for STs.

Karnataka ex-minister Nagendra mastermind of Valmiki ‘scam’, spent Rs 15 cr of funds on LS polls, says ED

Agency filed prosecution complaint last month before court, alleges Nagendra pressured Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation MD to transfer account.

NHRC takes sou motu cognizance of death of 2 ST students in MP govt hostel

The two students belonging to the ST community were allegedly asked to clean septic tanks on campus.

On Camera

Hitlerite vegetarianism is not virtue. India’s food debates need more science, less sentiment

Vegetarianism is as much a fad as prohibition. To say that man by nature is vegetarian is baseless and misguiding, wrote Tahir Siddiqui in 1953.

Paul John Whisky, Malhar Gin win top honours at Soho India Wine & Spirits Awards 2025

Goa: Creators of the Paul John Indian Single Malt Whisky and Malhar India Craft Gin, John Distilleries registered yet another stellar showing at the...

Munir threatens India, again; accuses Delhi of ‘using’ TTP, asks Afghan Taliban to ‘rein in proxies’

Speaking at Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad’s Kakul, Field Marshal Munir said it is ‘disconcerting that Afghan soil is being used for terrorism in Pakistan’.

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

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.