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After Rahul Gandhi reiterated the demand for a caste census on Saturday, Union Minister Chirag Paswan expressed his support for the initiative.

The centre's withdrawal of lateral entry ad points to the fraught times ahead as the opposition would exploit the caste divisions in furtherance of their political objectives.

A 7-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court ruled by a 6:1 majority that sub-classification of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes is admissible

With Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi giving a breach of privilege notice against PM Modi for sharing the speech of Anurag Thakur made in the Lok Sabha, sources said that that the BJP MP's remarks are part of parliamentary record and the notice does not hold ground

It is pertinent to mention that the RJD-JDU-led Bihar government's amendments in November last year, based on a state-wide caste census, increased reservations to 20% for Scheduled Castes, 2% for Scheduled Tribes, 18% for Other Backward Classes, and 25% for Extremely Backward Classes, with an additional 10% for the Economically Weaker Sections, bringing the total to 75%.

SC certificate of a woman in UP has been cancelled years after she won panchayat election from a reserved seat despite being a converted Muslim

Supreme Court on Thursday set aside Bombay High Court order that had cancelled the caste certificate of MP Navneet Rana

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently advised all the states and the Union Territories (UTs) against the practice of "segregating prisoners and assigning tasks based on their caste",

The claim of Rahul Gandhi that PM Modi's caste was made OBC by BJP govt has been busted because it was done by Congress govt in 1994

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said, "Chairman said the insult that happened was caste-based and that farmers were also insulted, but my caste is also always attacked and I don't say anything."