PM Modi releases additional Rs 2,000 cr under PM Kisan Yojana for Maharashtra farmers ahead of key pollsPrime Minister Narendra Modi disbursed Rs 20,000 crore as the 18th instalment of the PM-KISAN scheme, benefiting over 9.4 crore farmers. Ma...
05 Oct, 2024, 01.34 PM IST
Karnataka Cabinet recommends internal reservation among SCs, asks Centre for constitutional amendmentAddressing the media after the meeting, Law minister HK Patil and social welfare minister HC Mahadevappa said the Cabinet had decided to re...
18 Jan, 2024, 11.58 PM IST
Many BJP members feel changes to quota policy led to their defeatThe candidates freely aired their opinion at the introspection meeting organised by the BJP in Bengaluru with BJP national general secretar...
08 Jun, 2023, 11.32 PM IST
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge's son Priyank calls PM Modi 'nalayak', accuses him of creating confusion over SC reservationsPriyank Kharge, former minister and son of Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge, referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as 'nalayak' (...
01 May, 2023, 03.49 PM IST
Congress "instigating" Banjaras, Bhovis over SC internal reservation, says BJP leader Govind KarjolSenior BJP leader Govind Karjol on Monday accused the Congress of carrying out "misinformation campaign" about the internal reservation ann...
01 May, 2023, 03.22 PM IST
Quota Stir: Karnataka CM says he will talk to Banjara protestors as SC stir spreadsOn Monday, several protestors pelted stones at BJP veteran Yediyurappa’s home in a sudden flare-up in his constituency Shikaripur. While th...
29 Mar, 2023, 07.19 PM IST
Bommai blames Congress for violence over SC quota, says cameras have caught the imageWhile the CM, speaking to the media in Kalaburgi, accused the Congress of orchestrating the violence, the Opposition party sought to lob th...
28 Mar, 2023, 06.43 PM IST
Violence erupts as protestors pelt stones at Yediyurappa's house over reservationYediyurappa urged the Banjara community members to stay calm and offered to join them to the chief minister to discuss their demands. He al...
27 Mar, 2023, 08.13 PM IST
Prohibitory orders clamped in Karnataka town after Banjara community stages protest over quota issue"Local Congress leaders are instigating people. The Congress is unable to digest the social justice done to every community and it resorted...
27 Mar, 2023, 05.38 PM IST
Do away with caste and regional discrimination for nation's progress, says Adityanath; hails UP's anti-conversion lawThe UP CM was speaking at the 'Banjara Kumbh 2023' event in Jamner in Jalgaon district, some 415 kilometres from here. A large number of le...
30 Jan, 2023, 09.50 PM IST
RSS-backed 'Nomads body' seeks national 'Anti-conversion law'The Banjaras population is more than 150 million, with a majority of them living in states including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh...
29 Jan, 2023, 02.21 PM IST
PM Modi gives BJP launchpad in poll-bound Karnataka, showcases progress, welfare schemesThe visit gains significance, as the ruling BJP prepares for Assembly polls and has set a target of winning a minimum of 150 out of total 2...
19 Jan, 2023, 06.52 PM IST
Attire, culture and cuisine of every community is India's strength: PM Modi"Even today in the villages of Rajasthan and Gujarat, there exists some facility built by 'Lakha Banjara' to overcome water scarcity. I am ...
19 Jan, 2023, 05.21 PM IST
Modi’s big gift to SC subsect may be BJP’s masterstroke in North KarnatakaThis had been a decades-old demand of the two subsect who belong to the SC community. This set of beneficiaries live in the 1475 habitation...
18 Jan, 2023, 07.33 PM IST
All India Banjara Sangh formed to fight for community's rightsAn independent organisation has been formed to take up long pending issues of the 'Banjara' (nomadic people) community, Maharashtra MLC Har...
20 Sep, 2015, 02.53 PM IST
- Gujjars to intensify agitation; Ajmer bandh paralyses life
With talks between the Rajasthan government and the Gujjars on the latter’s demand for 5% quota in government jobs and educational institut...
28 Dec, 2010, 01.33 AM IST
- 3,000 goats sacrificed at Nashik fair
As many as 3,000 goats have been sacrificed by devotees at the Satimata-Samantdada fair in Vadangali village so far, reports reaching here ...
31 Jan, 2010, 06.02 AM IST