"The 50% reservation should be increased to at least 65%. The upper caste already has 10% reservation under EWS. Effectively, with a 65% re...

Voter turnout in the assembly bypoll in Rampur was an abysmally low 33% against nearly 57% in Khatauli. While BJP leaders said the turnout ...

Som, a two-term MLA from the Sardhana assembly seat in Meerut district, had hit the headlines for his alleged links to the 2013 Muzaffarnag...

Where do we locate contemporary service providers? By traditional classifications they are the shudras? Does the old varna system still hol...

The strategy, to fill majority posts with representatives of traders’ communities in urban areas, appears to be aimed at denting the prospe...

The Brahmins would make a king in two ways, one by establishing his genealogy and connecting him to the kings of yore from the solar or lun...

On the 31 seats where both the Congress and the BJP have fielded candidates belonging to the same caste, there is a direct contest between ...

Feudal land-based economies of kshatriyas value Lakshmi as Bhu-devi (tangible land) while market-based economies of vaishyas value Lakshmi ...

The PM belongs to the Teli community which was accommodated in the 'extremely backward' category just before polls were announced.

A group of Congress leaders from the Centre and UP were asked to reach out to influential leaders and families of the Muslim community in V...

Claiming that he has support from all communities in the seat, Upadhyay said a vast majority of Dalits, Brahmins, Muslims, Vaishyas and Guj...

Who Moved My Rice? Surely not the lala, although a recent government ad would want you to believe that.

Mayawati has convened a meeting of all secretaries, commissioners, district magistrates, IGs and SPs, fuelling speculation that she may rec...

BSP and SP jostle with BJP to capture votes of Banias, the trading community. Stage is set for an intense competitive politics to woo them.

Mayawati says her party would support nationwide strike on December 1, against organised retail.. calls Vasihya community rally on 18 Decem...

Votes Congress lost out after mandal-mandir seem to be returning to it and this could see its full revival in Hindi heartland.

The BJP on Friday decided to field its three prominent leaders of Jammu and Kashmir - former Union minister Chaman Lal Gupta, state union c...