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Demand to induct Motamma into Cabinet
Mumbai :: India | 12 hours ago
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Members of the organisations working for the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes took out a procession under the banner of the Federation of Dalits' Associations here on Thursday, demanding Cabinet berth for MLC and former Minister
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Cabinet nod to fill up reserved...
New Delhi :: India | 19 hours ago
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Cabinet nod to fill up reserved posts Friday, 24 May 2013 New Delhi: The cabinet yesterday approved a special recruitment drive to fill up vacancies reserved under the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs)
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11 held, 3 surrender for attack on Dalits
Madurai :: India | 4 days ago
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Twenty five Dalit houses damaged, a few vehicles torched Eleven members of an intermediate caste were arrested, while three others surrendered before the Nanguneri Judicial Magistrate Court, in connection with the attack on Dalit women and incidents
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19 Indian state officials face corruption charges
Boston :: MA :: USA | 4 days ago
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India (AP) An Indian state official is recommending that 19 people be charged with misappropriating millions of dollars in the construction of monuments honoring dalits, the lowest Hindu caste...Mehrotra says a total of 199 people, including former
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Drop ?creamy layer? concept: Karunanidhi
Mumbai :: India | 6 days ago
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Karunanidhi on Saturday urged the Centre to dispense with the creamy layer' concept while implementing reservation. He also demanded that the present annual income limit for exclusion from the purview of backward class reservation be raised to Rs 12
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Income limit of 'creamy layer' hiked to Rs 6 lakh per annum
Mumbai :: India | 8 days ago
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In a bid to widen the ambit of beneficiaries getting reservation under the OBC quota, the Central government today enhanced the ceiling for applying the 'creamy layer' restriction on "socially advanced persons". While the income criteria so far was
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Boost for OBCs, creamy layer bar to go up
New Delhi :: India | 10 days ago
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More young people from the other backward classes (OBCs) will be entitled to quota in jobs and education in government institutes with the Centre set to relax the creamy layer bar. The cabinet will Thursday consider a proposal to raise the bar to
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Not caste in stone
Mumbai :: India | 11 days ago
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The Samajwadi Party, taking a cue from its rival, the BSP, is trying its best to woo the significant Brahmin vote in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2014 polls. It organised a special convention on Parashuram Jayanti, where Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav
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Cabinet to consider 2013 as Water Conservation Year
New Delhi :: India | 16 days ago
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Against the backdrop of per capita availability of water falling at a fast pace, the Union Cabinet is likely to consider a proposal to declare 2013 as Water Conservation Year under which awareness programmes will be launched for conservation of the
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Marakkanam: Activists demand judicial probe
Marakkānam :: India | 17 days ago
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A fact-finding team comprising human rights activists representing various organizations has demanded a judicial enquiry by a sitting judge of the Madras High Court into the violent incidents reported at Marakkanam in Villuppuram district on April 25.
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