Bhopal, Jan 17 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh BJP leaders, including Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, criticised senior Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya, who allegedly made a controversial statement claiming that some religious scriptures promote assault of women from Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities.The controversy erupted after a short video clip surfaced on social media in which, Baraiya could be heard saying that, “certain religious scriptures suggest that assaulting women from …
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Bilaspur, Jan 7 (IANS) Bilaspur witnessed enthusiastic participation from tribal athletes across Chhattisgarh as selection trials for the upcoming Khelo India National Tribal Games are underway in the city.The trials are being conducted by the Chhattisgarh government’s Sports and Youth Welfare Department. Both online and offline registration facilities were made available for the players. Athletes can register online via a QR code and registration link, or register on-site.All participants wer…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court has quashed a criminal case, including charges under the SC/ST Act, arising from alleged irregularities in land allotments made more than two decades ago and related revenue proceedings. Allowing a criminal appeal, a single-judge Bench of Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav observed that a mere reference to Scheduled Caste land or the caste status of the informant is insufficient to attract the provisions of the special law.Justice Yadav held that the ca…
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010, which were scrapped earlier by the high court, as supporting documents for the second phase of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state. Last week, the West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), approached the Calcutta High Court’s single…
Ranchi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Jharkhand government on Monday launched a free residential coaching programme for medical and engineering entrance examinations for Scheduled Tribe (ST) students of the state.Chief Minister Hemant Soren inaugurated the ‘Dishom Guru Shibu Soren Engineering and Medical Coaching Institute’ at Hindpiri in Ranchi. The institute will be operated in collaboration with a reputed coaching institution from Rajasthan’s Kota.The Chief Minister said the initiative reflected a st…