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THOOTHUKUDI: Following threats, Thoothukudi police provided armed police protection for C Chandrasekar, the father of 'honour killing' victim C Kavin Selvaganesh. The police personnel with the gun have been deployed to ensure safety and protection of Chandrasekar as recommended by the SC/ST Commission. He is a farmer. Coolie groups are suspected behind the murder. Several political leaders have also urged to protect Kavin's parents. Kavin Selvaganesh of Arumugamangalam village in Thoothukudi was brutally murdered on July 27 at Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli district. He was murdered by the accused S Surjit (23), the younger brother of the girl who was in a relationship with Kavin. Surjit and his family belong to MBC category. The case has been transferred to CBCID while the accused and his father and Sub Inspector Saravanan was arrested. The brutual murder over caste pride shook the States' conscience.
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions about caste for the first time since independence. The Home Ministry announced plans to conduct a two-stage count ending March 1, 2027, in a statement Wednesday night. India's last official census in 2011 counted 1.21 billion people. The country's population is now estimated to be well over 1.4 billion, making it the world's most populous country, according to the U.N.'s Department of Economic an ...Read More >
The AICC OBC Advisory Committee has requested the central government to implement the Telangana model of caste survey in the upcoming national census. The committee also aims to relax the 50% reservation cap for OBCs. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah mentioned Rahul Gandhi's influence on the caste census decision. He also spoke about a previous socio-economic survey ordered during his tenure. The AICC OBC Advisory Committee on Wednesday urged the Centre to adopt the Telangana model of the social, edu ...Read More >
Cuddalore: As long as dravidian, Marxist, Gandhian, and Ambedkar ideologies stay united in Tamil Nadu, no saffron agenda from Delhi will succeed in the state, said chief minister M K Stalin.Speaking after inaugurating the centenary auditorium with a life-size statue of the late social justice warrior L Ilayaperumal, at Lalpuram in Chidambaram, Cuddalore district, Stalin said that leaders of the dravidian, Marxist, Gandhian, and Ambedkarite movements were on the stage united. "This unity symbolises Tamil Nadu. VCK president Thol Thirumavalavan emphasized this, and I reaffirm it. When Tamil Nadu ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): The Indian government expressed regret on Tuesday over the reported demolition of the ancestral property of celebrated filmmaker and writer Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh, Bangladesh and expressed its willingness to extend cooperation in its restoration. "We note with profound regret that the ancestral property of noted filmmaker and litterateur Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, belonging to his grandfather and eminent litterateur, Upendra Kishor Ray Chowdhury, is being demolished," the Ministry of External Affairs said. Also Read | India Urges Bangladesh ...Read More >
Agartala, July 19: The Tripura government would constitute task forces in all the eight districts of the state to detect and deport infiltrators staying in the bordering state, officials said on Saturday. A senior police official said that the 'Task Force' has already been constituted in West Tripura district, and it is being constituted in the remaining seven districts. "A senior police official of the district would be the head of the Task Force, and officers-in-charge of various police stations of the concerned district would be the members," the official said, refusing to be named. The ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Calling it "unfortunate" that a prime minister who calls himself OBC has steered clear of social justice measures, Congress on Friday accused Narendra Modi of not implementing reservations in private educational institutions, including higher education, for 11 years since the Supreme Court gave its nod to the Constitutional Amendment of Article 15(5). The party demanded that the Modi govt bring a law to activate the constitutional provision in the coming Winter session of Parliament.Congress also slammed the non-revision of income ceiling for OBC "creamy layer" which is pending for ...Read More >
Mumbai, Sep 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Maharashtra Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal said on Monday that reservation should not be given to the Maratha community from the Other Backward Class (OBC) quota and warned that if it will be done then OBCs will come in millions to Mumbai to protest against it. "There are 374 castes in OBC. Therefore, our only demand is that the Maratha community should not be included in the OBC category. I met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today. Both the Deputy Chief Ministers (Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar) were present there an ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Days after TNCC president and floor leader of the State Congress party K Selvaperunthagai claimed that he was denied the respect accorded to an elected representative at the Vallakottai Murugan temple in his Sriperumbudur constituency, senior officials of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department have ordered an inquiry into the incident. Commissioner of the department P N Sridhar has been instructed to conduct the inquiry, Additional Chief Secretary K Manivasan told DT Next, adding that the department would take stern action against any officials if they were ...Read More >
Yogi Adityanath alleges a conspiracy to divide Hindus and Sikhs. He claims religious conversions are occurring with fixed rates. Chhangur Baba of Balrampur is accused of Rs 100 crore transactions. Adityanath highlights conversion cases in Pilibhit. He urges caution against religious conversions. He also criticizes Aurangzeb's atrocities and praises Guru Teg Bahadur's sacrifice. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday claimed attempts were being made to drive a wedge between the ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as the Indian astronaut and IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla returns to Earth after spending a fortnight in the International Space Station (ISS), a political fight has begun back home over his caste identity. The controversy stemmed from Congress leader Udit Raj's remarks as he questioned the government's 'preference and partisan' approach in picking astronauts from certain communities and depriving Dalits of a similar opportunity. Former Parliamentarian Udit Raj, speaking to IANS lauded Shubhanshu Shukla's milestone achievements and hoped that th ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) Two people died and four others were injured after a fire broke out at a house in east Delhi's Old Govindpura area on Tuesday evening, an official said. Police have identified the deceased as Tanveer (28) and Nusrat. A call was received at Jagatpuri police station at 8.46 pm regarding a fire incident at Band Gali, Old Govindpura, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Prashant Gautam said. When a police team reached the spot, it found that 10 people were trapped inside a residential building that caught fire, the DCP said. With the help of police personnel and fir ...Read More >
DHARMAPURI: For the third time in the past two months, a wild leopard wandered into a private farmland near Valaithottam village near Palacode and hunted chicken raised by a local farmer. Locals are increasingly distressed and urged the forest department to take steps to relocate the leopard. Over the past few months, there have been several reports of leopard sightings in forest areas near Palacode, particularly in Valaithottam village, near the forest's fringe. There have been two instances when the leopard attacked farmlands, taking away a domestic dog and a chicken. On Saturday, the leop ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Jul 17 (PTI) The Telangana High Court on Thursday quashed an FIR registered against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy under relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the IPC. The case, registered at the Gachibowli police station in 2016, named Reddy as Accused No 3 (A-3). The complainant, associated with the SC Mutually Aided Cooperative Housing Society Limited, had alleged that at Revanth Reddy's instigation, his brother Kondal Reddy and others trespassed on the Society's land in Gopanpally village and demolished two rooms using an earth-moving machine, inten ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The Supreme Court has said money cannot be recovered by filing an FIR and seeking help of police as it quashed a cheating case against the producer of Bollywood movie "Tanu Weds Manu". A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan expressed displeasure over the approach of the Allahabad High Court in dealing with the petition of producer Shailesh R Singh for quashing of the FIR against him by complainant Kunal Jain. "Money cannot be recovered, more particularly, in a civil dispute between the parties by filing a first information report and seeking the help of the ...Read More >
Patna, Aug 1 (PTI) Healthcare services were affected at AIIMS-Patna on Friday as resident doctors went on an "indefinite strike" in protest against the alleged high-handedness of Sheohar MLA Chetan Anand. According to a press statement issued by the Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), AIIMS-Patna, on Friday, "The RDA expresses deep disappointment and anguish over the lack of action by the administration following the violent and traumatic incident that occurred on Wednesday, when MLA Chetan Anand, his wife and their armed guards breached hospital security, physically assaulted staff, and thr ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Aug 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major development, the Karnataka government has announced that it has accepted the Justice H.N. Nagamohan Das Commission report, with certain modifications, and implemented its recommendations on the long-pending issue of internal reservation. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah made a statement in session in this regard on Wednesday and announced that, "The Government is pleased to place before this House that the report of Justice Nagamohan Das has been accepted with modifications. We believe that this decision has succeeded in delivering justice to ...Read More >
Rajgir, June 06 (UNI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday expressed his doubt over the intention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the caste census, saying he would not allow emerge true picture of the prevailing scenario on social dynamics in the country. Gandhi, while addressing a conference organised on the theme of "save the constitution ", said that Prime Minister Modi was not sincere and his intention was not clear on the caste census, as he had promised to do it in the country. Initially, he was not at all prepared for the caste census at the national level, but under his continue ...Read More >
Hyderabad: After a carefully calibrated Cabinet expansion, providing representation to marginalised sections, the senior Congress leadership reached out to aspirants who did not make it to manage internal party dynamics. While legislators like Sudarshan Reddy, Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy, Malreddy Ranga Reddy, and Premsagar Rao -- all from upper castes -- aspired for Cabinet posts, the party prioritised social justice by inducting Dr Gaddam Vivek Venkatswamy, Adluri Lakshman Kumar, and Vakiti Srihari. The induction of three ministers -- two from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community and one fro ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A day after the Cabinet approved 42 per cent reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) in local bodies, the panchayat raj department initiated the process to amend the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018 on Friday, to pave the way for an ordinance to implement the enhanced quota. The state government plans to issue the prdinance within a week and conduct zilla parishad and mandal parishad elections in August, followed by gram panchayat and municipal elections in September. The Telangana High Court has set a deadline of September 30 for the government to conduct the local body elections ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a relief to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, the Telangana High Court, on Thursday, quashed the case registered against him under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The High Court, which had reserved its orders on the Chief Minister's petition on June 20, pronounced the same on Thursday. The case was registered in 2019 against Revanth Reddy, his brother Kondal Reddy and another person for allegedly abusing N. Peddi Raju, Director, Razole Constituency SC Mutually Aided Cooperative Housing Society Limited, ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 18: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said that if a person belonging to a religion other than Hinduism, Buddhism or Sikhism has obtained a Scheduled Caste certificate fraudulently, it will be cancelled. Action will be taken against such a person if he or she has secured reservation benefits, such as government jobs. If such a person has won an election using a fraudulently obtained SC certificate, their election will be declared null and void, Fadnavis said in the legislative council. Replying to a calling attention motion, he also said the state governmen ...Read More >
KARUR: Acting on court orders, the HR&CE department-administered Mariamman temple at Chinnadharapuram in the district was reopened for public worship amid tight police security on Friday evening. The temple was closed in 2018 following a caste clash. The temple, which has been under the HR&CE department since 1973, had members of various communities participate in pujas and other rituals until 2018 when SC and MBC members involved in an alleged clash. With both groups approaching the Madurai Bench of the Madras HC, the temple remained closed since then. During the hearing on July 15, the cour ...Read More >
The All India OBC Students Association (AIOBCSA) has demanded that the Union government include Telangana's 42% BC reservation laws in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution, which would shield them from any judicial interventions. At the BC Dhoom Dhaam event held at Osmania University in Hyderabad on Saturday, July 19, AIOBCSA president G Kiran Kumar and other BC leaders demanded that the 42% reservation for Backward Classes (BC) promised by the Telangana government in education, employment, and local bodies must be implemented without fail. The Telangana Assembly had passed two important B ...Read More >
Nagpur: The OBC Mukti Morcha, led by its National Convenor Nitin Choudhary, approached the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court, challenging Maharashtra govt's recent resolutions (GRs) that allegedly favour the Maratha community in the reservation policy.The petition seeks to quash the government resolutions (GR) of September 2, 2025, and January 25, 2024, which the petitioner claims are unconstitutional and discriminatory. The petitioner, through counsel Bhupesh Patil, argues the resolutions, w ...Read More >
Census 2027: India's largest data exercise returns with digital tools and caste focus | Illustration: Binay Sinha After a nearly six-year delay, India's decennial census is finally back on the agenda. It would be conducted in two phases along with the enumeration of castes. India's population census is expected to be released on March 1, 2027. Here is everything known so far. What is the census and why it matters India's census is the largest population count in the world, conducted every 10 years by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, under the Ministry of Home Aff ...Read More >
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The Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB) has begun the registration process for the recruitment of Village Development Officers (VDOs). For the post, a total of 850 vacancies have been announced, allocating 683 posts to non-scheduled areas and 167 to scheduled areas. Candidates can visit the official website, rssb.rajasthan.gov.in, by July 18, 2025, to apply for the post. The application fee for the exam has been fixed at Rs 600 for candidates coming under the General and OBC (creamy layer) categories, while those coming under the non-creamy layer OBC, MBC, EWS, SC, and ST categories of Raj ...Read More >
Mumbai : Tesla's long awaited India debut finally took place with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurating its showroom in Mumbai on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-led car maker unveiled its Model Y compact all-electric SUV at its 'Experience Centre' in Bandra-Kurla Complex with the CM describing it as the "right city and the right state" for the launch."Mumbai stands for innovation and sustainability. In 2015, when I went to the US, I had my first ride in a Tesla, and then I thought we need such a vehicle for mobility in India. But it took 10 years for it to come to India. But we are very happy ...Read More >
Lucknow, July 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Uttar Pradesh Minister Sanjay Gangwar on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the Congress for raking up the caste issue time and again for its "vested" interests. Taking aim at the Congress and its 'Yuvraj' (an apparent reference to Congress scion and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi), Minister of State for Sugarcane Development and Sugar Mills Gangwar said that the party's memory has weakened. Minister Gangwar's remark came two days after Congress leader Udit Raj stirred a row by questioning the government's "partisan" approach i ...Read More >
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy received a relief with the Telangana High Court, on Thursday, quashing a case registered against him under the provisions of the Prevention of Atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act. The case was pending before the Special Sessions Judge for Trial of cases under the POA against SCs/STs Act-cum-VII Additional District Sessions Judge of Ranga Reddy at L.B. Nagar. Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya, pronouncing the verdict in a criminal petition fil ...Read More >
Mumbai: CM Devendra Fadnavis warned of strict action against those exploiting their official Hindu and reserved caste status to gain educational, job and poll benefits while secretly practising the Christian faith. Dubbing them as 'crypto-Christians', he warned that state govt will take legal action besides revoking their caste/validity certificate, reports Somit Sen.He was replying in the legislative council to a calling attention motion by BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe, who said some 'crypto-Christians' ...Read More >