[ad_1] On 30 April, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre announced that caste enumeration would be conducted alongside the upcoming census, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reiterated his demand to remove the 50 per cent ceiling on quotas in India. “The 50 per cent cap on reservations is becoming an impediment to the progress of…
[ad_1] For months leading up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government’s surprise announcement of including caste enumeration in the upcoming census, Rahul Gandhi had been talking about the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) exercise that the Congress-led UPA-2 government conducted during its tenure. Gandhi, the most vocal voice in opposition demanding a Caste census, would…
[ad_1] The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s push for caste enumeration has stirred the political pot in the country ahead of the Bihar Assembly election. The decision to conduct caste enumeration along with the upcoming census was taken in the high-level Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) meeting held after the Pahalgam terror attack. Here’s…
[ad_1] Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira. File | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy With hundreds stranded in Sao Paulo, India to broach topic with Brazil Minister The plight of hundreds of men and women, many of them Indian, who are stranded at an airport in Sao Paulo as they are suspected to be illegal immigrants, maybe…
