MUMBAI: ₹746 crore meant for SCs and STs diverted to the Ladki Bahin scheme sparks controversy; spending on welfare has ...

As the party seeks to consolidate its hold in the Bihar assembly elections later this year, opinion remains divided about ...

Anjum Manhas India, characterized by vast diversity, carries the complex legacy of the caste system-a centuries-old social ...

Karnataka has launched a statewide caste census focusing on Scheduled Castes, spearheaded by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The ...

Those who have enjoyed the fruits of reservation have to sacrifice a little in favour of those who have not....Enumerators ...

The Congress Working Committee has passed a resolution for the implementation of caste-based reservations in private ...

The count is likely lead to demands to raise the country's quotas that reserve government jobs, college admissions and ...

All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the ...

A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, he said. According to the complaint, the youth stepped out to watch ...

According to the 2011 census, the population of Scheduled Castes is 16.6 per cent and Scheduled Tribes is 8.6 per cent, together forming a quarter of the total population. In the period 2001-11, the ...