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The apex court’s explanatory distinction between formal and substantive equality, made in the context of quotas, is also relevant to the understanding of equality...

The ministry had sent the proposal in 2020 based on the recommendation of a committee headed by retired bureaucrat B.P. Sharma...

Corporate India reflects embedded social inequities...

The petitioner alleged IITs are not following transparent hiring process, which opens up chances for non-deserving candidates to join by exerting influence...

A senior lawyer said the latest notification — which also flouts a 1992 apex court ruling — had exposed the BJP-ruled state administration to contempt charges...

Ideologues and activists express reservations, saying the number of beneficiaries is too low or that the proposed scheme should not have been linked to the private sector...

The qualified candidates will now be called for counselling, the last round of filtering for admission to MBBS and BDS (dental) courses in medical colleges...

The central president of Arakshan Manch said nearly 70 per cent of the saffron party legislators in both the states are OBCs...

The all-India quota comprises 15% of the total available undergraduate seats and 50 per cent of postgraduate seats in government medical colleges...