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 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 executive council of Jadavpur University on Monday approved a proposal to reserve 90 per cent of its BTech seats in the general category for students who pass their Plus-II exams from Bengal.The c...

Jadavpur University is witnessing a debate on whether the executive council, its highest decision-making body, would approve a domicile quota of 90 per cent for the engineering departments or settle f...

The Narendra Modi government has cleared a proposal for economic reservation, springing a pre-poll gamble beyond the pale of the Constitution and triggering demands that could open a Pandora’s box.T...

Central government departments are continuing to hire people on contract without implementing reservations a year after the social justice minister proposed that contractual appointments in government...

A central university’s implementation of the Economically Weaker Sections quota in the recruitment of associate professors and professors has stirred controversy, because the prescribed salary for a...

 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 country’s education minister on Wednesday deflected a question on the delay in promulgating a proposed ordinance to bypass a high court judgment that threatens to drastically reduce reserved te...

Jadavpur University should not have implemented the domicile quota in engineering courses and shut the door on brilliant students from outside Bengal, said Anil Sahasrabudhe, the chairman of the All I...