Prime Minister Narendra Modi accuses the Congress of planning to redistribute wealth based on its manifesto promise for a "nation-wide soci...

A senior BJP leader said going forward the BJP's focus will be on consolidating Hindutva vote bank and reach out to castes on the back of w...

Several states in India, including Rajasthan, Odisha, Maharashtra, Assam, and Karnataka, are planning or conducting caste surveys. The Raja...

The release of the caste-based socio-economic survey by the Bihar government has become a major political issue in India. The survey reveal...

According to the data, Scheduled Castes make up 19.65 per cent and the Scheduled Tribes 1.68 per cent of the population of the state. The d...

Participating in a debate on the bill, SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said, "State will get right to amend the list of OBCs, but you will reap o...

Caste-based reservation in higher education has always been a contentious issue, especially in medical education. While such affirmative ac...

The lotus will bloom in all the places where the SP or the BSP will field candidates, says Keshav Prasad Maurya.

They have found berths in various ministries, from HRD and health to power and petroleum. Unsurprisingly, many of these ministers have the ...

Any shift in Ezhava votes could hit Marxists badly before even helping BJP win a seat.

Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry has been allocated Rs 6,114.12 crore for the year 2013-14, out of which Rs 6,065 crore will b...

If the OBC quota judgement was expected to consolidate OBC votes for the ruling side, then the devil in the detail may thwart the project.

SC questions quota in higher educational institutions without full elementary education for social empowerment of backward classes.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the government will give special attention to providing education to minorities, SCs, STs an...

The Congress, has identified the implementation of the Sachar committee report and OBC reservation as major challenges facing it as it head...

The bandh on Saturday called in Tamil Nadu by the DPA front led by ruling DMK to protest against the supreme court stay on the 27% reservat...

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s "Muslims must have the first claim on resources" remark generating some political heat, the BJP and it...