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Punjab to launch ‘Mawan Dheeyan Satkar Yojna’ from July 1, offering monthly financial aid to women, check registration detailsPunjab is launching a new scheme to provide monthly financial aid to women. Eligible women will receive ₹1,000, and those from Scheduled Ca...
Supreme Court questions quota to children of economically, educationally advanced families in backward classesThe Supreme Court is questioning the continuation of reservation benefits for children from affluent families within backward classes. Just...
SIR rolled out to 'cut' SC, BC, minorities votes; Congress will protect them: Karnataka deputy CMKarnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar claims the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls targets SC, BC, and minority votes....
Multi-pronged contests to mark Gujarat local body polls; around 10,000 candidates in frayGujarat is gearing up for a pivotal showdown as local and civic body elections draw near. The BJP, long the frontrunner in the region, is b...
Switch by Raghav Chadha, others no surprise as BJP targets new voter blocs in PunjabSeveral Aam Aadmi Party leaders have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. This move is seen as a strategic preparation for the upcoming Punja...
Finish census 2027 online from home: Step-by-step guide for self-enumeration portal and state-wise schedule hereCensus 2027 self-enumeration: Self-Enumeration Portal for Census 2027, marking the country's transition to its first fully digital census, ...
Rajasthan HC calls transgender policy ‘eyewash’, orders 3% extra weightageRajasthan High Court has slammed the state's transgender reservation policy as a mere facade. The court has ordered a 3% weightage in marks...
HC acquits Punjab AAP MLA, 7 others in 2013 molestation caseThe Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted AAP MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura and seven others. They were convicted in a 2013 molestation...
Dhurandhar 2 box office collection day 10: Ranveer Singh film beats Pathaan, crosses Rs 1,200 crore mark worldwideDhurandhar 2 continues its impressive box office run, crossing Rs 1,200 crore worldwide in just 10 days and surpassing Pathaan's domestic c...
Should IAS and IPS children continue to get benefits of reservation, asks SC judge; Punjab govt says they shouldn'tJustice Gavai, a Dalit himself and slated to become CJI in May next year, said, "A person from the SC/ST community, after getting into cent...
Is state empowered to make classification in SCs, STs for quota: SC begins examining legal questionA seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud is also examining the validity of the Punjab Scheduled Castes and B...
Rs 129.29 cr given to over 25,000 beneficiaries under 'Ashirwad' scheme in current financial year: Punjab ministerA total of Rs 161.31 crore has been earmarked this financial year under the scheme, which offers Rs 51,000 to women from Scheduled Castes, ...
'Two lakh SC students dropped out of colleges in Punjab due to non-payment of scholarship by state'The allegations came a week after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ordered a probe into alleged irregularities in the post-matric schola...
Punjab polls: Arvind Kejriwal woos SC community, promises free education for their childrenArvind Kejriwal asked the people in the gathering to vote for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for once, saying they had given many chances to the...
Punjab waives Rs 590 crore farm debt loans for labourers and landless farming communityThe government will pay off loans to the tune of Rs 590 crore of 285,325 members of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS), ...
Govt paid Rs 10 lakh compensation each to 210 dead sewer workers in last 25 yrsThe Minister informed that a survey on it, which began in December 2013, is still on and is being conducted in 166 districts in 17 states.
National Commission for Scheduled Castes seeks report on action taken in Moga incidentNCSC has summoned two senior police officials over the case of a Dalit woman and her teenaged daughter being allegedly molested and thrown ...
- Punjab SC commission urges PM to bring back Sarabjit to India
Bagha requested the Prime Minister to take up the matter with his counterpart in Pakistan and get the sentence of Sarabjit pardoned.
- Punjab government dissolves panchayat bodies
Almost a year after coming to power, the SAD-BJP government in Punjab today dissolved all the 12,775 panchayats in the state,
- Cabinet clears proposal to filling SC, ST vacancies in central government
The proposal comes soon after the government decision to allow 4.5 per cent reservation to the minorities within the OBC quota.