Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday changed his stand to oppose the BJP government’s bill facilitating a quota for the economically backward among the general category population. In ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday told a public rally in Maharashtra’s Solapur that his government had demolished the falsehood being spread and provided 10 per cent extra reservation withou...

The Centre on Wednesday night cleared the Rajya Sabha hurdle on the upper caste quota bill that was likened by the Opposition to “demonetisation” and triggered demands for caste-based reservation ...

The contrast in the reactions to two landmark decisions on the contentious issue of reservations tells us a great deal about ourselves as a people and society, of our understanding of privilege and de...

Sir — A Portuguese charter airline, Hi Fly, recently conducted plastic-free trial flights. The first such flight took off from Lisbon, Portugal, with no single-use plastic item on board. The unbridl...

The Nitish Kumar government’s move to implement 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections is aimed at striking at the Opposition’s fault lines, sources in the Bihar chief minister�...

Three organisations fighting for the cause of social justice are up in arms against the economic quota as they see it as a threat to caste-based reservation.They feel the 10 per cent quota for “econ...

This last week in Parliament could be, potentially, a turning point in the history of the republic. The Lok Sabha passed two bills that have large constitutional implications.The citizenship amendment...

The Union cabinet on Monday gave the go-ahead for a legislation to give 10 per cent quota in state jobs and educational institutions for 'economically weaker sections'.The proposed criteria for determ...

Isaac Newton’s third law of motion — every action has an equal and opposite reaction — is applicable in the case of the Narendra Modi government’s recent decision to give 10 per cent reservati...