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West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 Key Issues: Jobs distress, welfare politics and identity battles shape high-stakes TMC vs BJP contestWest Bengal Election 2026: West Bengal is voting in its 2026 Assembly elections. The political battle is intense, focusing on economic hard...
Supreme Court dismisses pleas for review of 2021 verdict quashing Maharashtra law on grant of quota to MarathasA five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan, since retired, had on May 5, 2021 delivered the verdict on petitions relat...
No proposal to alter existing reservation scheme: GovernmentIn a landmark verdict on November 7, the Supreme Court upheld the 10 per cent reservation introduced in 2019 for economically weaker sectio...
EWS quota verdict: DMK to file review petition, Karti Chidambaram welcomes moveCongress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the EWS reservation was the outcome of a process initiated by the Ma...
SC observes pleas challenging 10% EWS quota; Economic criteria for policies not proscribedA five-judge Constitution bench was told by several lawyers that the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota on the sole criteria of the f...
Govt introduces Constitution amendment bill in Lok Sabha to restore states' rights on OBC listThe Supreme Court has dismissed the Centre's plea seeking a review of its May 5 majority verdict that held that the 102nd Constitution amen...
BJP MP Sambhaji Chhatrapati meets Sharad Pawar over Maratha quota issueThe Supreme Court recently struck down the Maharashtra law granting quota to the Maratha community in admissions and government jobs, by te...
Move SC afresh for raising quota limit: Devendra Fadnavis to Maharashtra govtThe top court had recently struck down the Maharashtra government's decision to exceed 50 per cent reservation for Maratha community in edu...
Centre moves SC for review of verdict denuding states of power to declare SEBCThe Centre has maintained that the amendment did not take away the power of the state governments to identify and declare SEBC and the two ...
SC strikes down Maharashtra law granting quota to Marathas, terms it unconstitutionalThe judgement came on a batch of pleas challenging the Bombay High Court verdict which had upheld the grant of reservation to Marathas in a...
Supreme Court's decision on Maratha quota unfortunate: Uddhav ThackerayThe chief minister said he expects the Centre to show the same alacrity on the Maratha quota issue as it did in delivering verdicts on issu...
Karnataka govt to submit before SC need for exceeding quota capKarnataka at present provides 15 per cent reservation for SCs, 3 per cent for STs and 32 per cent for the other backward classes (OBC), whi...
If only Parliament can make SEBC list, then Maratha quota beyond legislative competence: SCThe Supreme Court on Tuesday observed if the argument that after 102nd amendment of the Constitution only Parliament can prepare one "Centr...
SC commences hearing whether Mandal verdict that caps the quota at 50% needs to be revisitedA five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan, gave a week time to all the states to submit their brief note of submissi...
High Court restrains Harsh Vardhan Lodha from holding office in MP Birla GroupThe court also told Lodha not to draw any benefit from the assets of the MP Birla estate. The latter is expected to challenge the ruling be...
Will not proceed with the recruitment process till Sept 15: Maharashtra government to SCA bench of Justices L N Rao, Hemant Gupta and S Ravindra Bhat adjourned the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the High Court orde...
SC to hear Friday plea challenging Bombay HC order upholding law granting reservation to MarathasA bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices Deepak Gupta and Anriuddha Bose took note of the plea that the issue of Maratha ...
PM Narendra Modi faces no real challenge in 2019: Ram Vilas PaswanThe Lok Janshakti Party chief and Union minister mocked opposition parties, saying they should start concentrating on the parliamentary pol...
SC refuses to pass interim order on plea on reservation to SC/ST in government jobsA bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said a seven-judge Constitution bench is needed to con...
Bihar poll result a referendum on PM Narendra Modi's performance: CongressCongress today said the Bihar poll outcome was a referendum on the performance of PM Modi and hinted that he could soon face music from wit...