Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has given his assent to a Bill envisaging 7.5 per cent reservation to government school students who have cleared the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test in admission to medical courses
Tamil Nadu government on Thursday passed an order to provide 7.5 percent reservation in medical colleges to students studied from the state government schools and have cleared the NEET examination.
Maratha Kranti Morcha staged protest at office of Collector in Bandra, demanding reservation for the community.
Indian Railways on Thursday said that it has reserved 20 per cent vacancies for the apprentices in 1,03,769 notified vacancies for the level-1 recruitment. According to the official release, against these employment notifications, more than 2.40 crore candidates have applied.
The Kerala cabinet on Wednesday approved the implementation of 10 per cent reservation in government jobs for the financially backward section in the general category without affecting the existing ones.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has announced a 5 per cent reservation for jobs in the Group C posts for former service personnel.
Maharashtra government filed a petition in Supreme Court, seeking vacation of its stay order on Maratha reservation.The Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra and Congress leader, Ashok Chavan met with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar
Members of Maratha Community staged protest in Lalbaug area against Supreme Court's stay order on Maratha reservation. Social distancing norms also being followed during protest.
Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday announced reservation of 4 percent seats in its engineering, medical colleges for students hailing from Ladakh Union Territory.
In a major move aimed to redefine "creamy layer" for OBCs, the government is mulling to increase the income bar from present Rupees 8 lakh to Rs 12 lakh and and drop "gross income" to bring in "net taxable income". The government had earlier proposed to include "salary" in determining "creamy layer".
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will begin day-to-day hearing from July 27 through videoconference on a clutch of pleas filed against reservation for the Marathas in education and jobs in Maharashtra.
The cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, approved the proposal for drafting Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Ordinance, 2020, “to address the aspect of unemployment of the local population on priority basis”, will be placed before the Council of Ministers in its next meeting.
Seventy-five per cent of private sector jobs in Haryana will be reserved for local candidates as per a proposed ordinance cleared by the state cabinet on Monday.
The political parties have challenged the decision of Centre not granting 50 per cent reservation to OBC’s in seats surrendered by Tamil Nadu in the All India Quota for under graduate, post graduate medical and dental courses in a current academic session.DMK, in its plea, had said that it was opposing the denial of implementation of 50 per cent OBC policy of the state, other than in central government institutions.
Root is slated to miss the Windies opener as his wife is due to give birth to their second child. In his absence, the responsibility of leading the team will go to Stokes who is presently the vice-captain of the team.
Indian railways has resumed the service of 200 special trains from today. The initiative has been taken by the government to enable citizens to go back home as relaxations are given in the COVID-19 lockdown norms.
The Railways on Thursday increased the advance reservation period from the present 30 days to 120 days for all special trains -- the 15 pairs operating since May 12 on Rajdhani routes and the 100 new pairs of special trains scheduled to run from June 1.
Railway reservation is open for public in all classes of 230 trains connecting various stations in the country.
Indian Railways on May 21 announced that ticket reservation counters and Common Service Centers will be opened in a phased manner across the country from today onwards.
In a big relief for passengers, Indian Railways opens its reservation counters at select stations for booking of only reserved tickets from today, nearly two months after they were shut due to the coronavirus lockdown. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal also said an announcement on the resumption of more trains will be made soon.
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