India and Singapore upgraded bilateral ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership as PM Narendra Modi held talks with his counterpart Lawrence Wong to boost cooperation in a range of areas from advanced manufacturing and digitalisation to skills and healthcare. Four MoUs were signed, including one for establishing a semiconductor ecosystem partnership that was hailed as…
PRAYARAJ: Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi reiterated his demand for a caste census on Saturday, arguing that it was necessary for reshaping policies to benefit 90% of excluded people, reports Rajeev Mani. He said corporate sectors, judiciary, media, Bollywood, and beauty pageants lack representation from OBCs, SCs, and STs.“90% of people are out of the…
NEW DELHI: Grievances of the most backward among Scheduled Castes of being deprived of reservation benefits by those socio-economically advanced among them dates back to the 1960s but it took the shape of a legislation for the first time in Andhra Pradesh with the enactment of AP Scheduled Castes (Rationalisation of Reservations) Act, 2000.The law…
China expectedly loomed over the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo Monday as India, US, Australia and Japan expressed serious concern over Beijing’s “dangerous manoeuvres” in the South China Sea (SCS) and called for an Indo-Pacific in which no country dominates and no country is dominated.In a first, India also joined others in upholding in…
