In a powerful demonstration, hundreds of individuals convened at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to voice their concerns against caste-based reservat...

Assam's cabinet approved a Taj Gateway Hotel lease and streamlined police verification processes. The government also granted Aadhaar enrol...

BSP supremo Mayawati opposed the 'creamy layer' concept for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe reservations. She argued affirmative action...

The Centre opposes a Supreme Court petition for income-based reservation sub-quotas. It argues reservation for SCs, STs, and OBCs is based ...

The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the creamy layer principle does not apply to SC and ST reservations. It stated that previous...

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre announces 462 apprentice vacancies for 2026-27. A walk-in selection process will occur on July 25, 2026, at VS...

Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot suspended KPSC chairman Shivashankrappa S. Sahukar. He faces allegations of abusing his office to ap...

The Delhi High Court has directed the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) to re-examine a Forest Service exam candidate's challenge to th...

Controversy around Pooja Khedkar's certificate emphasizes delays in updating the 'OBC creamy layer' ceiling from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 15 lakh. I...

Congress member Dean Kuriakose had sought to know if there was any proposal to increase the OBC non-creamy layer annual income limit from t...

The social justice and empowerment ministry will begin consultations and examine the issue of increasing the ceiling limit from the present...

"The committee, therefore, concludes that the two sets of criteria are significantly different despite both using the Rs 8 lakh cut-off and...

"Creamy layer" is the section of backward castes which is considered economically advanced and ineligible for reservations.

The Centre on May 2013 had raised the income limit for OBC's Creamy Layer to Rs 6 lakh per annum.

Government today deferred a proposal to raise the income ceiling from Rs 4.5 lakh p.a. to Rs 6 lakh of the creamy layer OBC candidates.

The Centre may revise 'creamy layer' for OBCs at around or less than Rs 7 lakh per annum, diluting the existing ceiling of Rs 4.5 lakh.

After putting the admission process on hold, the IIMs have begun the exercise to sift creamy layer among OBC by asking candidates belonging...