BJP leaders criticised the previous classification, alleging that religious groups were added to the OBC list for political reasons, while “depriving genuinely backward Hindu communities” of their share. India’s National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has recommended that the Union government remove 35 communities, most of them Muslim, from West Bengal’s central Other Backward Classes (OBC) list, following a review...
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Supreme Court rules Muslim men must return bride’s parental gifts after divorce
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NPR presents a Clear Danger to Women, De-link NPR from Census house listing, says More than 1000 Women from across India
Given that the updation of the National Population Register (NPR) is scheduled to begin from April 1, 2020 along with house listing for the Census of India 2021, prominent women rights activists, including Annie Raja, Farah Naqvi, Anjali Bhardwaj, Vani Subramanian, Meera Sanghmitra, Mariam Dhawle and Poonam Kaushik released a letter at Delhi’s Press Club, that was sent this morning...
Telangana Assembly resolution against CAA, NPR and NRC, “a welcome step, but not sufficient” says Citizens’ group
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COVID-19 pandemic: SC takes suo moto cognisance of overcrowding of prisons
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