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  OPINION | Haryana police suicides: Avoid Jat-Dalit confrontation

  India | October 16, 2025 16:08 IST

  The double suicide of IPS officer Puran Kumar and ASI Sandeep Lather is gradually taking the shape of a caste confrontation. Puran Kumar's family had been alleging from Day One that the suicide was a result of caste-based harassment.

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  In SP-RLD, not Jayant Chaudhary but Azam Khan will rule: Amit Shah to Jat leaders

  Elections | January 26, 2022 20:37 IST

  A Jat leader who attended the meeting said that they have demanded Bharat Ratna for (former PM) Chaudhary Charan Singh, reservation for Jats and proportionate representation in Centre and UP government. The HM has responded positively.

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  UP Elections: SP banks on Jat, Muslim candidates for first phase; will BJP's development plank work?

  Elections | January 14, 2022 14:04 IST

  The list of 29 candidates has nine Muslim and Jat candidates each, indicating a clear shift in strategy of the Opposition alliance to challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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  PM Narendra Modi to lay foundation of university in Aligarh named after Jat leader

  India | September 08, 2021 7:30 IST

  UP CM Yogi Adityanath will be visiting Aligarh on Wednesday to take stock of the preparations for the prime minister's visit.

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  ‘Lord Hanuman was a Jat’: UP religious affairs minister stirs fresh controversy

  India | December 21, 2018 19:47 IST

  On Thursday, MLC Bukkal Nawab had created a row by claiming that Lord Hanuman was “actually a Muslim”.

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  Jat stir: Virendra Sehwag appeals agitators to shun violence

  India | February 21, 2016 14:55 IST

  New Delhi: In the backdrop of ongoing Jat agitation demanding reservation, former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag today appealed to protestors to shun violence and allow people to return to their normal routine."The country's defence forces, the

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  Jat stir: No water left in Delhi, schools closed

  India | February 21, 2016 12:58 IST

  New Delhi: Schools in the national capital will remain closed on Monday in view of the water crisis here following the closure of the Munak Canal which supplies water to Delhi, a minister said on

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  Stir will end only after quota Ordinance: Jat leaders

  India | February 20, 2016 19:36 IST

  Chandigarh: Several Jat leaders today refused to call off the pro-quota agitation unless the government promulgates an ordinance to include the community in the OBC category.The response came after Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today

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  Jats lash out at BJP led Centre over reservation issue

  India | September 13, 2015 18:35 IST

  Hisar: Jats today lashed out at BJP led government at the Centre for not giving reservation to the Jat community, threatening to launch an agitation in this regard."If BJP continued its policies against Jat reservation,

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  Supreme Court rejects Centre's review against scrapping quota for Jats

  India | July 22, 2015 7:31 IST

  New Delhi:  The Supreme Court today dismissed the plea of the Centre seeking a review of its March 17 verdict that set aside a notification to include Jats in the central list of Other Backward

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  Jats to cut supplies to Delhi if reservation not implemented by Sep 28

  India | July 04, 2015 7:38 IST

  Jind: Jat bodies yesterday threatened to seal Haryana border along Delhi and cut off all supplies to the national capital if the Union government fails to implement reservation for the community before September 28.  A

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  Jat reservation: Important developments through the years

  India | March 17, 2015 14:59 IST

  In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the government's decision to include Jats in the list of Other Backward Classes (OBC) category in nine states (Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya pradesh,

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  President's Bodyguard reserved only for Rajput, Jat, Sikhs, Army tells SC

  India | October 02, 2013 20:16 IST

  New Delhi: The Army has admitted in the Supreme Court that recruitment to President's Bodyguard (PBG) is open only to Hindu Rajputs, Hindu Jats and Jat Sikhs, saying that it is done purely on “functional

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  Jat Protesters Block Rail Traffic In Haryana

  India | February 22, 2012 11:57 IST

  Hisar, Haryana, Feb 22: Jat protesters continued their protests on the rail tracks here for the fourth day today after talks broke down yesterday ober OBC reservation for Jat community. Haryana minister Randeep Singh Surjewala

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  Jat Stir: Dikshit Hopes Centre Will 'Do The Needful'

  National | March 24, 2011 7:21 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 23: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today hoped that the Centre would do the "needful" to pacify the agitating Jats who threatened to cut off the capital from the rest of north