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  J-K panel examining quota system given six months to submit report, says CM Omar Abdullah

  Jammu and Kashmir | March 15, 2025 21:12 IST

  Reservation has become a major issue in Jammu and Kashmir following the Centre's decision to add more communities to the reserved category and expand quotas in the Union Territory during the past five years.

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  Sharad Pawar urges Centre to remove 50 per cent cap on reservation, vows to 'support amendment'

  Maharashtra | October 04, 2024 17:49 IST

  Shiv Sena spokesperson and MLA Sanjay Shirsat asked why Sharad Pawar could not resolve the reservation issue when he was in government.

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  Chhattisgarh: Agniveers to get reservation in police constable, forest guard recruitment

  chhattisgarh | July 26, 2024 22:05 IST

  CM Vishnu Deo Sai's announcement comes after PM Modi slammed the opposition in a veiled attack for spreading misconceptions about the Agnipath scheme while speaking at the Kargil Vijay Diwas function.

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  Bihar govt moves SC against Patna High Court order quashing 65 per cent reservation law

  India | July 03, 2024 14:18 IST

  In a detailed order, the high court made it clear that it saw "no extenuating circumstance enabling the state to breach" the 50-per cent cap on reservations laid down by the Supreme Court in the Indra Sawhney case.

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  PM Modi writes to BJP candidates, urges them to highlight Congress' regressive politics

  India | April 30, 2024 14:19 IST

  In his letter the Prime Minister has directed BJP candidates to highlight Congress' agenda of extending reservations to Muslims, by taking it away from SC/ST and OBC communities.

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  'BJP will achieve its target of '400 paar' in Lok Sabha elections', avers Rajnath Singh | EXCLUSIVE

  India | April 30, 2024 12:22 IST

  In an exclusive interview with India TV, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh spoke on a few key topics, offering insights on the BJP's prospect in the Lok Sabha elections, the reservation system, and the alliance between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress in Uttar Pradesh.

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  OPINION | DOES CONGRESS WANT TO GIVE PRIORITY TO MUSLIMS ON RESOURCES?

  India | April 26, 2024 16:45 IST

  At three election rallies at Agra, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, PM Modi alleged that both Congress and SP are promoting appeasement politics and they want to reduce the quota of backward castes in order to give reservation to Muslims.

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  OPINION | MUSLIM RESERVATION: MODI IN AGGRESSIVE MODE

  India | April 25, 2024 6:24 IST

  Addressing an election rally in Tonk, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reminded that the Congress government in 2004 had reduced SC/ST reservation in Andhra Pradesh and had given reservation to Muslims.

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  Supreme Court strikes down 10.5 pc reservation for Vanniyars in Tamil Nadu

  India | March 31, 2022 11:46 IST

  The Tamil Nadu Assembly had in February last year passed the then ruling AIADMK-piloted bill providing internal reservation of 10.5 per cent for Vanniyars.

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  Rajya Sabha passes bill to restore states' power on OBC list, Opposition ruckus follows

  Politics | August 11, 2021 19:11 IST

  ​The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed a Constitution amendment bill to restore the powers of states to have their own lists of OBCs for reservation in jobs and educational institutions.

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  In a BIG shift, govt mulls defining 'creamy layer' on net taxable income and increasing ceiling

  India | July 24, 2020 11:05 IST

  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".

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  Vice President bats for political empowerment of women by providing quota in Parliament

  India | November 11, 2019 17:13 IST

  At the third convocation ceremony of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), he expressed happiness over the fact that women constitute 51 per cent of the students in the institute because of special admission policy for them, and those hailing from distant places and belonging to marginalized sections

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  Govt moves bill to provide reservation in jobs for people living on international border in J&K

  India | June 28, 2019 16:36 IST

  Home Minister Amit Shah has moved Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2019 in Lok Sabha. As per the new bill, people living along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir will get benefits of reservation in direct recruitment, promotion, and admission in professional courses.

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  Supreme Court refuses to pass interim order on reservation for SC/ST in govt jobs

  India | July 11, 2018 13:35 IST

  Attorney General KK Venugopal, appearing for the Centre, said that the matter should be urgently heard by a seven-judge Constitution bench.

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  If Dalits, backward sections get reservation in BHU, then why not in AMU or Jamia: Adityanath

  India | June 25, 2018 23:44 IST

  Adityanath said there was no discrimination in the schemes being run by the central government and they were meant for the welfare of all including Dalits and backwards.

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  No scrapping of reservation, lies being spread to mislead Dalits: PM

  India | February 03, 2016 8:54 IST

  Coimbatore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today ruled out any possibility of scrapping reservations, saying that a "campaign of lies" has been let loose on the issue of Dalits under a "deliberate conspiracy" to disintegrate the

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  Muslim quota row: MIM to launch agitation from today

  Politics | January 06, 2015 12:28 IST

  New Delhi: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) has asked all MIM units to submit a memorandum to the district collectors or tehsildars in their respective districts from today to register their protest against the state government's indifferent

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  Hedge disassociates himself from Team Anna remarks on PM

  India | May 29, 2012 21:18 IST

  New Delhi, May 29: Fresh differences appeared in Team Anna with Justice Santosh Hegde today distancing himself from corruption allegations against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other ministers even as the group sought to play

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  Pak Army Expresses Reservations Over MFN To India : BBC

  World | November 22, 2011 18:39 IST

  Islamabad, Nov 22: The Pakistan Army has expressed its reservations over the civilian government's move to grant Most Favoured Nation-status to India and conveyed its concern to the administration at the highest level, BBC Urdu

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  BJP Has Reservations On Right To Recall Provision

  Politics | October 18, 2011 17:34 IST

  Lucknow, Oct 18: Opposition BJP today said it had some reservations over the provision of right to recall as part of poll reforms in the country.“The BJP is working on poll reforms since last year