New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya has triggered a major political controversy following his derogatory remarks on women and rape, drawing sharp condemnation from the BJP, which has demanded his immediate expulsion from the party.Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra strongly criticised Baraiya’s statements, describing them as deeply offensive not only to women but also to humanity and Sa…
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Hyderabad, Jan 14 (IANS) Taking a key step for conducting municipal elections in Telangana, the state government has finalised reservation of wards and offices of chairpersons/mayors in 121 municipalities and 10 corporations.The municipal administration department on Wednesday issued a notification regarding reservation for Scheduled Tribes (STs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), Backward Classes (BCs) and women.The reservation has bee finalised for SCs and STs as per 2011 census and for BCs as per recom…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and all state governments on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the implementation of the “creamy layer” principle in reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi sought responses from the Union government as well as all state governments on the writ petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by advocate…
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) A bench of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Railway Board to investigate a complaint alleging that in 2010, when the incumbent West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, was the Railways Minister, a tender policy was amended to provide reservation under the guise of minority preference, reducing the statutory reservation for SC/ST/OBC categories to benefit the Muslim community, which is not provided for under the Constitution of India.As per th…
Hyderabad, Jan 2 (IANS) Telangana Legislative Assembly on Friday passed a resolution, demanding continuation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) as it is and terming the recently passed Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Aajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB G RAM G) detrimental to the rights of the poor. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy tabled the resolution, which was passed unanimously by a voice vote.According to the resolution, the new law is against t…
Dehradun, Dec 29 (IANS) Acting on the directions of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, immediate financial assistance was sanctioned on Monday to Tarun Prasad Chakma, the father of Tripura student Angel Chakma, who was brutally assaulted in Dehradun and later succumbed to his injuries at a hospital, officials said.An official from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said that an amount of Rs 4,12,500 has been released as the first instalment, and the cheque has already been dispatch…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) As the Congress leader Digvijaya Singh landed in controversy after praising the BJP and its ideological parent – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said that the grand old party has “lost its mental balance”. The controversy erupted after Digvijaya Singh shared a black-and-white photograph on social media showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi seated on the ground while BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani sat on a chair in th…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court has ruled that alleged caste-based abuses hurled over the telephone, and not in any place within public view, would not prima facie attract the stringent provisions of the SC/ST Act. While disposing of an application for anticipatory bail, a single judge Bench of Justice Jay Sengupta observed that since the allegations in the FIR pertained to abuses allegedly made over a phone call, the essential ingredients of Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the …
Hyderabad, Dec 26 (IANS) Caste census and the move to enhance reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) dominated Telangana politics in 2025. Sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SCs), two Cabinet expansions, the Congress party’s victory in the Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll, and its strong showing in the recently conducted Gram Panchayat elections were among the other major political developments of the year.The Socio-Economic, Education, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey, launc…