The Supreme Court ruled that states can now sub-classify Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) to grant quotas within these gro...

A seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud is also examining the validity of the Punjab Scheduled Castes and B...

Addressing the media after the meeting, Law minister HK Patil and social welfare minister HC Mahadevappa said the Cabinet had decided to re...

Former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan-headed panel will have IAS (retd) Ravinder Kumar Jain and UGC member Sushma Yadav as its memb...

The Allahabad HC last week quashed two GOs- one issued under the SP government in 2016 and one under the BJP government in 2019, saying onl...

The cash incentives are given to all legally registered inter-faith Indian couples, said officials of the state Social Welfare Department.

Kataria, union minister of state for social justice and empowerment, also said in Lok Sabha that under the existing scheme, an SC or OBC if...

A letter issued by the social welfare department of Uttar Pradesh said SC certificates should be issued to 17 OBCs.

The Supreme Court Wednesday said its 2006 verdict putting benefits of quotas in job promotions for SC/ST employees need not be referred to ...

The apex court said it would take time to constitute a bench to re-examine a 2006 verdict that the creamy-layer-exclusion principle could n...

Moving the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 Amendment Bill for consideration and passing, Social Justice Minister Thawar Chand G...

The government approved a proposal for inclusion of certain castes, including Sais, Aheria and Peruvannan, in the list of SC in five states.

The issue of categorising Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians among SCs is separate from that of earmarking 5% quota of OBCs for other relig...

"... Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad are trying to take away the nine per cent quota from Dalits and backward communities to give the same to ...

A delegation from Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana today met Union Parliamentary Affairs M Venkai...

Come election time and all parties set their eyes on the minority votes particularly the muslims, widely perceived as a "vote bank", and an...

HRD minister Arjun Singh may have thrown down the gauntlet to his party colleagues and the Left when he all but ruled out the possibility o...