NEW DELHI: While it is true that some sub-castes within scheduled castes and some tribes within scheduled tribes miss out on the benefits of reservation, a significant part of SC/ST quotas in government jobs goes unfilled every year, raising the question of whether the ‘dominant’ sub-castes and tribes are really keeping the more deprived ones…
GUWAHATI: Hmar Inpui, the top association representing Hmar tribe of Kuki-Chin-Zo ethnic group, declared Saturday a peace agreement brokered two day ago between Meiteis and tribal group in Manipur‘s Jiribam as “null and void”, saying it was signed “without our prior, informed consent”.Jiribam has a multi-ethnic demography and remained untouched until this summer by the…
PUDUCHERRY: First-year MBBS examinations of Pondicherry University, scheduled to begin on Friday, have been postponed after the question paper was leaked. The revised schedule is yet to be announced. More than a dozen government and private medical colleges in Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands are affiliated to the university.Students reached examination halls in their…
RAIPUR: “Being small does not make a child less of a human being than a grown-up, and corporal punishment causes incalculable harm to a child,” Chhattisgarh HC said, dismissing a teacher’s plea to quash a chargesheet against her after a Class VI girl died by suicide.“It is cruel to subject a child to physical violence…
MUMBAI/PUNE/NAGPUR: Election heat in Maharashtra went up a notch on Saturday with former cop Sachin Waze revealing that he had named another minister from the MVA govt – Jayant Patil – in his purported missive to deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on the orchestra bars extortion case involving former home minister Anil Deshmukh. The revelations by…
NEW DELHI: Foreigners account for nearly one in every 10 persons undergoing organ transplant in India, govt data shows. In 2023, data shared by National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation reveals, India recorded 18,378 organ transplants with 42 recipients getting more than one organ. So, there were a total 18,336 organ recipients in the country…
BAREILLY: An angry mob took matters into its own hands at a village in UP and set on fire the house of a 21-year-old man for allegedly eloping with a woman, 20, of another community from the same neighbourhood. When police arrived at the scene on Friday night, the mob vandalised their vehicle too. The…
A 32-year-old physically challenged autorickshaw driver was beaten to death after his three-wheeler grazed an SUV and left a deep scratch on it in Nangla Chowk of Faridabad around Thursday midnight. Rohit, the 19-year-old driver of the car who rained punches and kicks on the victim, was arrested on Saturday morning. Police said Bunty had…
MEPPADI (WAYANAD): Fate can’t be much crueller than this. Eleven members of Kalathingal Nousheeba’s family have been swept away by the Mundakkai landslide – her father, mother, elder brother, two sisters-in-law and six nieces and nephews – all of whom were staying at her ancestral house at Mundakkai that fateful night. As if this immense…
NEW DELHI: In a major step, government wants to curb the “unfettered” powers of Waqf Boards to declare any property a ‘waqf asset’ and take control of it.Sources said the Cabinet on Friday evening discussed 40-odd amendments in the Wakf Act (known as Waqf Act before 2013), including ones to check the jurisdiction, considered arbitrary…
