Academics on Friday described the 9.4 per cent budget increase for higher education as too little to implement the newly introduced 10 per cent reservation for the economically weaker sections.Some of...

The Indian Institutes of Technology have continued their relaxed cut-offs for merit-list qualification for a second year, trying to ensure the maximum possible intake in a session where their availabl...

 IIEST Shibpur will recruit visiting faculty to meet the crisis of shortage of teachers as more students will be admitted this year with the introduction of quota for financially weak candidates ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from the Centre and CBSE on a plea seeking 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections in the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET), 2019....

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear on April 8 a batch of pleas challenging the Centre's decision to grant 10 per cent reservation in jobs and admission for candidates of economically wea...

The Supreme Court on Monday hinted it might refer to a Constitution bench the 10 per cent quota for the economically weak among the upper castes but refused to stay the government’s decision and the...

The social justice ministry has turned down a Right to Information application that had sought details of the decision-making process on the quota for the economically weak, lengthening the list of is...

This is a government in a hurry. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre first decided that economically weaker sections among upper castes would be given 10 per cent reservations, and...

A gross annual family income below Rs 8 lakh is the criterion for identifying the economically weaker sections among people so far left out of reservation, the government has announced, ending specula...

The IITs and the IIMs are likely to seek exemption from the economic quota for the coming academic session, the tech institutes citing inadequate infrastructure and the B-schools flagging the absence ...