The Union cabinet has sent back to the social justice ministry a proposal to include salary in gross family income for identification of the creamy layer within the other backward classes for exclusio...

Many American multinational corporations have adopted an ambitious racial justice and inclusion programme. In 2020, Apple filled 43 per cent of open leadership roles and 29 per cent of research and de...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and the 23 IITs on a petition alleging that these institutions were not offering reservation to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other ...

The Haryana government has included salary and agricultural earnings in calculations of whether an Other Backward Classes candidate belongs to the creamy layer, the notification coming just three mont...

The NDA government is planning a scheme to sponsor the education of 30,000 meritorious but poor Other Backward Classes students at top private residential schools and colleges every year, two governme...

A Jharkhand-based outfit espousing the cause of Other Backward Classes (OBC) will campaign against the BJP in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh in the run-up to the Assembly polls in both states in 2022 o...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) on a plea by a group of doctors to quash the July 29 notification allowing reservation for OBCs (Ot...

Sometimes it may be wise to seek operational convenience at the cost of precision in identifying a desirable set of characteristics in a set of individuals. The Supreme Court’s ruling that incom...

The sources said the Centre was considering accepting the demand for a caste census, announcing sub-categorisation of OBCs and clearing the backlog in vacancies under the OBC quota. The BJP and the M...

Politics is a strange animal; contestation can thus masquerade as consensus. Consider the all-party delegation led by the chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, that met the prime minister, Narendra M...