The UPSC has opened online applications for numerous Group A and B positions in central government departments, including DGCA, IMD, and AS...

Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav has questioned the upcoming Uttar Pradesh cabinet expansion by the BJP government. He raised concerns...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee clarified in the assembly that OBC classification is based solely on a community's backwardness, not religio...

Responding to another question, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria said a committee was constituted to...

While expanding the scheme, the government “rationalised” the criteria for identification of minority concentration towns (MCTs) and villag...

‘Special category’ states are those that are effectively entitled to extra funds, on easier terms, from the central govt. Such states face ...

"Let us see what decision the govt takes of the special committee headed by the Finance Ministry's chief economic advisor Raghuram Rajan," ...

Demanding special category status for Bihar to fast track its economic development, Nitish Kumar today pinned hope on the high-level sub-co...

The Centre today set up an expert committee to evolve a composite index to measure backwardness of states.

The special category status to various states in accorded by the National Development Council based on consideration of a set of criteria.

Centre will shortly change the criteria for evaluating a state's claim to be "backward", meeting the demand of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for sp...

The Centre’s efforts to help Bihar coincides with an unease in JD(U) over its ally BJP’s plans to project Modi as the PM candidate.

Official sources said a package is being worked under which criteria for backwardness of a state are being framed.

"It is the victory of the people of Bihar(granting special status in the budget) and Chidambaram deserves kudos ," Kumar said.

Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Minister Geeta Bhukkal today said the Haryana government has issued a notification in this...

The National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities , better known as Ranganath Mishra Commission, was given an opportunity to ...

The anti-quota petitioners contended before the Supreme Court that the legislation providing 27% reservation to OBCs in central educational...