Madhya Pradesh: Mohan Yadav is BJP's surprise pick as Chief MinisterBJP also named Rajendra Shukla and Jagdish Devda, a SC, as deputy chief ministers. While both Yadav and Devda are from Malwa-Nimar region, ...
12 Dec, 2023, 12.04 AM IST
BJP begins Billava-Ediga outreach with community welfare board, schools as polls nearIn his budget three days ago, Bommai announced residential schools named after Sri Narayana Guru for Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannad...
20 Feb, 2023, 09.43 PM IST
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams gets a jumbo Board; 52 'special invitees' includedThe government issued three separate orders to this effect around midnight on Wednesday claiming that the jumbo Board was constituted to "p...
16 Sep, 2021, 12.25 PM IST
Karnataka budget offers sops to caste groups, promises to set up Vokkaliga development boardThe announcement came four months after the government established the Karnataka Veerashaiva Lingayat Development Corporation for the to he...
08 Mar, 2021, 05.51 PM IST
Karnataka government to remove Class 6 textbook content that hurt feelings of BrahminsThe Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar in a note to top officials of his department has also directed that a committee...
18 Dec, 2020, 03.32 PM IST
Boards for Caste Groups: Yediyurappa has mounted tiger, not easy to get offA few religious mutt heads are now putting pressure on ministers to get similar boards for the welfare of their respective castes as well.
03 Dec, 2020, 09.57 AM IST
Rajasthan reserves 10% government jobs for economically weaker sectionsRajasthan is the first Congress-ruled state which has moved on the 10% reservation following Modi government’s move.
21 Feb, 2019, 09.20 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee changes tack, prays to contain BJPMamata has come to realise the change that Modi has brought in the universe of Hinduism, including OBCs, Scheduled Caste and Tribes in the ...
30 Dec, 2017, 11.34 AM IST
Bihar's prominent Brahmin face Ashwini Kumar Choubey now Minister of stateChoubey held important portfolios such as Urban development, PHED and Health in both in NDA I (2005-2010) and NDA II (2010-2013).
03 Sep, 2017, 12.41 PM IST
BJP targets biggest voter pie, hopes for three-region sweep in Uttar PradeshET spoke to over a dozen BJP leaders on the ground to piece together BJP’s region-wise game plan in UP.
16 Jan, 2017, 12.12 AM IST
Voters won’t be influenced by narrow caste factors: Kalraj Mishra, Union MinisterWe are gradually going ahead towards ache din, confidence and credibility is our biggest achievement, Barack Obama first said Modi is a man...
28 Sep, 2016, 04.28 AM IST
Haryana's Jats to Kerala's Brahmins: Why reservation pleas are being heard all over IndiaAs a debate rages on about whether or how long reservations should continue, ET Magazine shines a light on some of the castes that are up i...
18 Oct, 2015, 11.31 AM IST
'All is well with Carnatic: Critics have no clue'Chitravina Ravikiran responds to the criticism of TM Krishna and others that Carnatic music is the exclusive preserve of brahmins.
20 Jul, 2015, 04.26 PM IST
Gail Director appointment 'biased', PESB told to review decisionThe National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has advised the Public Enterprises Selection Board to review the appointment of a director in ...
05 Aug, 2014, 05.58 AM IST
BSP leader Satish Chandra Mishra's cousin sister Divya, holding minister of state rank, joins BJPThe sudden development not only comes as a rude jolt to the BSP's Brahamin outreach gameplan but to Mishra as well, who had reposed a lot o...
18 Jul, 2014, 09.55 AM IST
GAIL India Executive Director Gajendra Singh complainS about Public Enterprises Selection Board of caste biasGAIL Executive Director Gajendra Singh, who was recently interviewed for the position of Director-Business Development appealed to NCST abo...
29 Apr, 2014, 07.20 AM IST
The eastern bubble bursts: East suffers due to lack of a capitalistic cultureThe rise of Saradha chief Sudipta Sen and his subsequent fall read almost like a celluloid script and it underscores the entrepreneurial ma...
30 Apr, 2013, 11.40 AM IST