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  Bharat Bandh today: Will schools, colleges, banks, offices remain closed in Delhi-NCR?

  India | August 21, 2024 6:19 IST

  Bharat Bandh: The Reservation Bachao Sangharsh Samiti has urged all business organisations to keep markets closed during the day-long protest. However, it is not clear if markets will remain shut or not.

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  Kharge condemns SC's 'creamy layer' judgement, says govt should have nullified it through Parliament

  India | August 10, 2024 17:18 IST

  The Supreme Court had ruled that states must evolve a policy for identifying the creamy layer even among the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Schedule Tribes (ST) and deny them the benefit of reservation.

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  JDU slams Tejashwi for his plans to undertake Bihar yatra to highlight NDA govt's failure

  Bihar | August 04, 2024 10:01 IST

  Senior JD (U) leader and state minister Ashok Choudhary came out with a statement attacking RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, a day after the RJD leader announced his plans to undertake the yatra from August 15.

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  Will strongly oppose any move to apply creamy layer criteria in quota for SCs/STs: Ramdas Athawale

  Maharashtra | August 03, 2024 14:30 IST

  The Supreme Court said that states are empowered to make sub-classifications of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for granting quotas inside the reserved category to uplift more underprivileged castes.

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  Jharkhand govt raises reservations for SC, ST, others to 77 per cent

  India | September 15, 2022 7:49 IST

  Jharkhand govt on Wednesday also gave its nod to a proposal to use the 1932 land records to determine those who are local inhabitants.

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  Rules modified to enable quota for SC, ST and women in DDC in Jammu and Kashmir

  India | October 24, 2020 23:12 IST

  The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday amended the Panchayati Raj rules, making provision for reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women in the district development councils.

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  Lok Sabha passes bill to extend SC-ST quota in legislatures by 10 years

  India | December 10, 2019 20:12 IST

  Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a Constitution amendment bill to extend reservation to SCs and STs in Lok Sabha and state assemblies by another ten years, with Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserting that the quota in legislatures was required to build a new political leadership of the two communities.

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  Union cabinet approves SC/ST reservation in Lok Sabha, state assemblies

  India | December 04, 2019 11:04 IST

  The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to extend the reservation for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies for another 10 years, highly placed sources said. The reservation for these categories in the LS and the assemblies was to expire on January 25, 2020.

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  Representation of SCs, STs in Government jobs above prescribed percentage: Government

  India | July 17, 2019 18:07 IST

  The representation of SC and ST members in central government services is more than the prescribed percentage while that of other backward classes is lower, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

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  Benami flats in Adarsh were bought under SC/ST quotas: CBI

  India | March 28, 2014 22:07 IST

  Mumbai: Many of the ‘benami' flats (the flats held in the name of a proxy buyer) in the scam-tainted Adarsh Society here were purchased under the quotas for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and ‘weaker sections