Guwahati, May 25 (IANS) Assam Minister Arup Bora on Monday tabled the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Assam, 2026 Bill in the state Assembly, proposing a single civil legal framework governing marriage, divorce, succession and live-in relationships for all residents of the state, while excluding Scheduled Tribes to protect their constitutional safeguards.The proposed legislation seeks to replace religion-based personal laws with a common code aimed at ensuring gender justice, equality and legal unifor…
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Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) The newly formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal plans to address long-pending demands of bankers’ representatives for administrative support in recovering unpaid loans, particularly from wilful defaulters.At the State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) meetings — which include representatives from both banks and the state government — both sides have raised recurring concerns. While state officials have urged banks to improve the credit-deposit (…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court of India on Friday questioned whether children from families that have already attained educational and economic advancement through reservation should continue receiving its benefits, observing that such upward mobility should place them within the creamy layer category and exclude them from further reservation benefits. The remarks came from a Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan while hearing a special leave petition (SLP) challenging a…
Ranchi, May 22 (IANS) Efforts to resolve the dispute over the language policy for the Jharkhand Teacher Eligibility Test (JTET) failed to yield consensus at the second meeting of a five-member high-level committee of ministers held here on Friday.The final decision is now likely to be taken by Chief Minister Hemant Soren.The committee was constituted by the Chief Minister after controversy erupted over the recently approved rules for language for JTET, which excluded Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili a…
Ahmedabad, May 21 (IANS) Wadi – a backward belt in Gujarat’s Surat, with predominantly high tribal population, is making headlines because of youths’ popular desire to join the Armed Forces and the Sainik schools coming forward to help them realise their aspirations. The Sainik school has launched a special drive to encourage the children of tribal community to excel in sports also groom them to serve as future military officers, dedicating their lives in the service of motherland.The initia…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The West Bengal Backward Class Development Department had directed District Magistrates to re-verify all Backward Class certificates, including Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) documents issued in their respective districts in the last 15 years from 2011 to 2026, that is the three terms of the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state.Insiders from the current state secretariat of Nabanna said that cle…
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) The West Bengal government has decided to double the payments under the state-sponsored old-age pension and disability pension schemes in the state.Till now, the monthly amount fixed under the two schemes was Rs 1,000. Sources in the state secretariat, Nabanna, said that the new state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had decided to increase the amount to Rs 2,000 a month.Although it has not yet been decided when the enhanced amounts will b…
Bengaluru, May 13 (IANS) Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, R. Ashoka, on Wednesday accused the Congress government in Karnataka of doing “great injustice” to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) community by ‘reducing reservation percentages and betraying’ Dalit communities.Speaking to reporters at the BJP state office ‘Jagannath Bhavan’ in Bengaluru, Ashoka said the previous BJP government had increased Scheduled Caste (SC) reservation from 15 per cent to…
Bengaluru, May 12 (IANS) Former Karnataka Chief Minister and MP Basavaraj Bommai said on Tuesday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to launch a public awareness campaign across the state against the Congress-led state government’s alleged rollback of the enhanced reservation provided to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) during the previous BJP government. Addressing the media after a meeting with BJP SC/ST leaders at his residence in Bengaluru, Bommai accused the s…
Aizawl, May 7 (IANS) Mizoram Governor General Vijay Kumar Singh on Thursday emphasised the importance of preserving tribal culture, heritage, and traditions while inspecting key cultural infrastructure projects in Aizawl district. The Governor visited the ongoing development works of the Tribal Research Institute and the Ropuiliani Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum at Kelsih in Aizawl district. The projects are being implemented under the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs.During the visit, General (…