reservations

Supreme Court to hear petitions in July seeking SC status for Dalits who converted to Islam and Christianity

The Supreme Court said, "What is the structure of the religions, do they recognise the caste system and what is the effect of it?"

‘No community deserves reservation more than Muslims’: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind to move court against Karnataka govt scrapping 4% OBC Muslim reservation

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind chief Maulana Madani to move Court against Karnataka govt scrapping 4% OBC Muslim reservation

Ahead of Karnataka polls, BJP govt scraps 4% OBC Muslim reservation, splits it between Vokkaligas and Lingayats

Karnataka govt abolished the current 4% reservation for Muslims under the OBC quota and transferred them to the 10% pool for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS)

Even as probe finds no ‘caste discrimination’ angle in IIT Bombay student suicide case, media and activists are trying to whip up a frenzy: Here is how

Darshan Solanki's death is being painted as caste discrimination citing that his 'general category' roommate had asked him about his JEE rank.

RSS body and other Hindu outfits oppose reservation benefits for Dalits converted to Islam, Christianity

RSS body and other organisations said that reservation benefits should not be extended to Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians.

AIMIM to march for 5% reservations to Muslims in Maharashtra: Here is how Congress, NCP, and Shiv Sena had fanned this demand

AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel said the march would take place during the upcoming winter session of the Maharashtra assembly.

SC upholds validity of 10% quota for EWS, Congress leader Udit Raj slams the decision calling the apex court ‘casteist’

The Supreme Court of India upheld the Constitutional validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment which grants a 10 per cent reservation to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) for unreserved categories

RSS chief’s comment to discard the caste system leaves the non-left in debate mode: Read arguments being offered in support and against

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat called for the discarding of varna and jaati, adding that they has no relevance in the present age.

Reports say govt may set up panel to ‘study condition of Dalits who convert to Islam or Christianity’: Why we need to tread carefully

With several such pleas pending in the court, that demand reservation for "Dalit Christians" and "Dalit Muslims", according to media reports, the government is now mulling setting up a panel…

DMK wants to keep poor ‘upper castes’ away from EWS reservation benefits, wants quota meant for economically weaker sections only for ‘lower castes’

DMK submitted in SC that including upper castes in the scope of the 10% reservation for EWS would make a mockery of reservation.