Delhi Assembly Elections: Dalit votes may split between AAP, BJP Congress, say expertsAhead of Delhi Assembly polls, the AAP faces challenges from Congress and BJP for the crucial Dalit votes. Though AAP previously secured st...
24 Jan, 2025, 04.21 PM IST
Kejriwal announces Ambedkar scholarship for Dalit students' foreign education, BJP says old schemeDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the Dr. Ambedkar Samman Scholarship for Dalit students' foreign education. Kejriwal cited it...
21 Dec, 2024, 07.59 PM IST
Ambedkar Jayanti 2024: History, date, significance and other key detailsDr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the visionary behind India's Constitution, continues to be honored on Ambedkar Jayanti. His relentless efforts ...
14 Apr, 2024, 02.11 PM IST
Bihar caste survey shows 34% of households in poverty, 46 lakh live outside state for livelihoodThe caste survey report presented in the Bihar state assembly today revealed that 34% of families in the state lived in poverty, with a mon...
07 Nov, 2023, 03.11 PM IST
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discriminationCalls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora...
22 Feb, 2023, 09.08 AM IST
Tejashwi Yadav calls for Oppn unity, setting aside egosIn his speech at the party's open convention, which ratified Prasad's election as its president again, Yadav continued with his efforts to ...
10 Oct, 2022, 03.35 PM IST
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...
07 Dec, 2021, 07.27 PM IST
PM asks people to be vocal for local toys, calls for improving India's standing in 'Toyconomy'Prime Minister Modi made the remarks after interacting with participants of Toycathon-2021 via video conferencing.
24 Jun, 2021, 04.18 PM IST
Under new FCRA rules, grassroot NGOs stare at an uncertain futureThe revised FCRA requires NGOs to receive foreign funding only at a designated bank branch in New Delhi, prevents them from transferring fo...
09 Oct, 2020, 09.54 PM IST
AAP government to launch overseas scholarship scheme for Dalit studentsThe proposal is likely to be put before the cabinet soon, Delhi's SC/ST Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam told.
04 Aug, 2019, 12.44 PM IST
EWS quota will not affect exisiting reservation: PM Narendra Modi"It is unfortunate that an atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust is being created by some people in Tamil Nadu to serve their interest," PM ...
27 Jan, 2019, 04.47 PM IST
General category quota will get NDA 10 per cent more votes: Ram Vilas PaswanIn 2014, the NDA won 336 of the total 543 seats in Lok Sabha, with the BJP bagging a majority on its own by emerging victorious in 282 seat...
20 Jan, 2019, 02.16 PM IST
Eyeing world record, 5,000-kg 'khichdi' cooked by BJP Delhi at Ramlila MaidanThe khichdi was prepared with 400 kg rice, 100 kg lentils, 350 kg vegetables, 100 kg desi ghee, 100 litres of oil, 2,500 litres of water an...
07 Jan, 2019, 10.16 AM IST
This is fight between truth and lies; truth on our side: Rahul Gandhi in GujaratGandhi resumed campaigning in the poll-bound state after returning from Rae Bareli where he had flown to meet the victims of yesterday's bl...
03 Nov, 2017, 12.21 PM IST
Home Ministry "inadvertently" renews, cancels licence of another NGOThe licence of Florence Home Foundation, a member of France's Emmaus International, was cancelled for alleged misutilisation of foreign gra...
09 Jan, 2017, 10.13 PM IST
Government cancels FCRA licences of 7 NGOsThe decision has been taken after the Home Ministry conducted an inquiry into the functioning of the NGOs whose FCRA licences were renewed ...
15 Dec, 2016, 06.48 PM IST
2015: A mixed bag for Smriti Irani led HRD MinistryDuring the year, the move to implement a choice-based credit system which will make migrating from one university to another easier gathere...
30 Dec, 2015, 10.50 AM IST