All public sector banks will begin a special drive from October 2 for filling up of backlog vacancies reserved for scheduled castes, National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Chairman Vijay Samp...

The Jharkhand government is in the process of renovating and giving a facelift to state-owned hostels meant for tribal, Scheduled Caste, backward classes and minority students, and also provide food g...

The Jharkhand government has given its nod to a proposal for granting 77 per cent reservation in state government jobs for the members of the SC, ST, backward classes, OBC and economically weaker sect...

The brochure also prescribed subject-wise cut-offs. General candidates needed to obtain 10 per cent each in mathematics, physics and chemistry while the benchmark was 9 per cent for the OBC and EWS an...

Former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau Sameer Wankhede on Thursday filed an affidavit in a court in Maharashtra's Washim district, stating their family belongs to a Scheduled...

The Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and the British High Commissioner to India on behalf of the Jharkhand Government and UK Government respectively signed an MoU regarding the Chevening Marang G...

Kerala’s progressive image includes in it the empowerment of women at home and outside. Two rulings by a sessions court, however, demonstrated how regressive values may persist in spite of a for...

IRS officer Sameer Wankhede, who was accused of submitting a fake caste certificate to get a government job, called on National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairperson Vijay Sampla on Tuesd...

A nine-year-old Dalit boy who died after allegedly being thrashed by his school teacher in Rajasthan's Jalore district was cremated on Sunday, amid tension at his village where some "outsider...

Reservation policies have helped change social contours to some extent, but not enough. Otherwise discrimination against members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe groups would not have been a dee...