Reservation In India

'Kitne haath tode maine, maloom?' Meet Hardik Patel, Patidar poster boy and man without a plan

Nothing prepares you for the disappointment of meeting Hardik Patel, the 22-year-old leader of the Patidar reservation movement.

OBC quota: HC seeks DU reply to plea of minority inst

The Delhi High Court today asked Delhi University to respond to the plea of four of its colleges, claiming to be minority institutes, that they be exempted from giving 27 percent reservation to OBCs.

Minorities sub-quota: Muslim leaders say govt was callous

Muslim community leaders believe that the Centre did not do enough research and did not defend the creation of a sub-quota for minorities properly.

Help minorities use existing quotas better instead of creating new ones

Was the move to create a sub-quota reservation for minorities in educational institutions well thought out? Unlikely. Here's what the government could do instead.

Centre submits relevant documents before SC on sub-quota issue

The Centre today placed before the Supreme Court the "relevant" material and documents on the basis of which it carved out 4.5 percent sub-quota for minorities in the central educational institutions such as IITs.

HC quashes Centre's 4.5 percent minorities sub-quota

In a setback to the Centre over the sub-quota issue, the Court said the Office Memorandum(OM) creating the sub-quota was based on religious grounds and not on any other intelligible consideration.

RTE: Girls to get preference over boys in Maharashtra

The Maharashtra cabinet has decided that under the 25 percent reserved seats under RTE, more girl students will be given admission over boys.

Mamata says no to religion-based reservation

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday rubbished demands of reservation for Muslims on the basis of religion and said the idea cannot work as it is not permitted by the Indian Constitution.

Cong, SP fuel fight for Muslim votes across UP

With stakes high in the Assembly elections, the Muslim vote is being wooed like never before in Uttar Pradesh where Rahul Gandhi has also joined the race for quota politics.

BJP promises temple, Congress jobs, quota

BJP today revived the Ayodhya issue promising to build a Ram temple but Congress came out with plans to create 20 lakh jobs for unemployed youth in their manifestos for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.