AICC OBC advisory panel to meet in Bengaluru on July 15Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that the AICC's OBC Advisory Council will convene in Bengaluru on July 15. The meeting will see parti...
06 Jul, 2025, 05.49 PM IST
Fresh caste survey in Karnataka: BJP says Congress always betrayed OBCsBharatiya Janata Party criticized the Congress party. The criticism follows Karnataka government's decision. The decision involves conducti...
16 Jun, 2025, 03.37 PM IST
'No limit to hypocrisy': Jairam Ramesh takes jibe at ministers over lateral entry move remarksCongress leader Jairam Ramesh criticized Union Ministers for their sudden shift in stance after the government decided to cancel the latest...
20 Aug, 2024, 05.17 PM IST
Manmohan Singh, Montek Ahluwalia came through lateral entry: Law minister reminds Rahul GandhiArjun Ram Meghwal rebuked Rahul Gandhi's claim that the government bypassed the reservation system via lateral entry, noting former PM Manm...
19 Aug, 2024, 09.59 PM IST
No reason for Muslims to be insecure in India since their population growing, says Anurag ThakurAnurag Thakur referred to a recent report on India's demographic transition, questioning the insecurity of Muslims, whose population report...
11 May, 2024, 06.07 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh: Mohan Yadav is BJP's surprise pick as Chief MinisterBJP also named Rajendra Shukla and Jagdish Devda, a SC, as deputy chief ministers. While both Yadav and Devda are from Malwa-Nimar region, ...
12 Dec, 2023, 12.04 AM IST
No evidence that government catered only to one community: EAC-PM paperThe paper titled 'A Secular Democracy in Practice: Objective Assessment of Amenities Programs in India', authored by Shamika Ravu analysed ...
20 Apr, 2023, 11.27 PM IST
Government must do more to uplift poorest 20% of households: EAC-PMIn her paper titled ‘A Secular Democracy in Practice’, EAC-PM member Shamika Ravi said that the government is responsive to the needs of th...
20 Apr, 2023, 07.49 PM IST
Congress set to provide 50 pc representation to SCs, STs, OBCs minorities at all levels in organisationIn a change in stance on “quota within quota” in the women's reservation bill, the party is likely to resolve to demand that from out of th...
14 May, 2022, 08.34 PM IST
Opposition parties demand curtailment of Goa budget sessionChief Minister Pramod Sawant is scheduled to present the budget on the first day of the session.
18 Mar, 2021, 02.40 PM IST
Caste is bad in politics, not in economics: S GurumurthyLaunching a book 'Caste as Social Capital' authored by R Vaidyanathan, Gurumurthy said classless and casteless society is a beautiful imagi...
09 Apr, 2019, 10.10 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee changes tack, prays to contain BJPMamata has come to realise the change that Modi has brought in the universe of Hinduism, including OBCs, Scheduled Caste and Tribes in the ...
30 Dec, 2017, 11.34 AM IST
Delhi University colleges get 'six-hour' deadline to get AICTE approvalUGC had, however, directed DU to continue with these five B.Tech programmes but only for benefit of over 6,000 students admitted in the aca...
12 Apr, 2015, 03.55 PM IST
- Sachar panel: Thin samples & inaccurate conclusions
The Economic Times carried a series of stories in the first week of April on income disparities across different religious groups in India.
01 May, 2007, 03.40 AM IST
- OBCs account for 41% of Indian population: NSS
The Supreme Court noted on Thursday that the government has no clear data on the Other Backward Classes (OBC), while staying the Central Ed...
31 Mar, 2007, 03.22 AM IST
- PSU bank trio charts roadmap for onward trip
An alliance of three banks - Indian Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and Corporation Bank - has identified as many as 13 areas on which they...
18 Nov, 2006, 12.07 AM IST
- IIM-A gives in, to implement 54% OBC quota in 3 years
The board of governors of IIM-A on Friday decided to implement 54% quota for OBCs in its PG programme in the next three years, instead of i...
30 Sep, 2006, 03.30 AM IST