
New Delhi: In the wake of the Andhra Pradesh High Court order striking down the 4.5 per cent sub-quota to minorities within OBC reservation, IITs have decided to abide by the ruling, "ignoring" the quota provision till further legal developments. With this, candidates who benefited under the sub-quota and shortlisted for counselling have been advised to register the choice of courses accordingly under the ongoing counselling process, IIT-JEE 2012 organising...

08:32 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: Bill Gates met Rotary International India on Thursday in New Delhi on his three day visit to the country where he is expected to meet a number of Government functionaries before heading to Bangalore for a discussion on philanthropy with India's industrial leaders. Gates met Rotary leaders " Rajendra K Saboo, Past President, Rotary International , Ashok M Mahajan, Trustee & Member, International PolioPlus Committee and Deepak Kapur,...

06:59 PM, May 31, 2012

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11:44 PM, May 29, 2012

Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said that minority sub-quotas are not aimed at minority appeasement but the empowerment of all communities. ...

10:14 PM, May 29, 2012

Kolkata was indeed the City of Joy on Tuesday as the Knight Riders returned to their home city having won their first ever Indian Premier League title. ...

10:05 PM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...

09:44 PM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: Dismissing Law Minister Salman Khurshid's statement that he will take the 4.5 per cent sub-quota issue to the Supreme Court, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said religion based reservation was not legally sustainable and Congress had misled the minorities with the politically-motivated step. Asked about the government decision to file a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court on the issue, BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said...

08:06 PM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that the government would move the Supreme Court against a Andhra Pradesh High Court order scrapping 4.5 per cent minorities sub-quota. A division bench of the AP High Court on Monday set aside the Centre's decision to carve out a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for backward classes belonging to notified minorities from the 27 per cent OBC reservation, saying there was...

04:03 PM, May 29, 2012

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11:42 PM, May 28, 2012

New Delhi: Maintaining that its stand has been vindicated on the Muslim quota issue, BJP on Monday welcomed the Andhra Pradesh High Court's decision to quash 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities within the OBC reservations. "When these reservations were announced we had clearly said it is against the Constitution," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters in reply to a question. A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High...

09:08 PM, May 28, 2012

Hyderabad: A Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh on Monday struck down the office memorandum issued by the Central government creating a sub-quota for religious minorities out of the existing 27 per cent reservation for the other backward classes (OBCs). The Bench, comprising Chief Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, declared that this action of the Central government was based upon religious lines and...

04:41 PM, May 28, 2012

Mumbai: Karan Johar's birthday celebrations are almost akin to some film awards event. The filmmaker's friends are clearly pulling out all stops to make it a memorable night and KJo is feeling super about it. The filmmaker who turns 40 today, talks about his clout and makes a birthday wish. Excerpts from the Q and A What's the first thought that comes to your mind on turning 40? I feel...

04:35 PM, May 25, 2012

The release date of 'Adhinayakudu' has been fixed as June 1. Languishing for half-an-year now, the film had till recently seen no glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. So, Balayya's fans must brace up to receive the Yuva Ratna with full josh. That the film's climax scenes are tinged with political colours should make 'Adhinayakudu' all the more important. Much like NTR, who made a political statement...

10:58 AM, May 24, 2012

Jalandhar: Buried in recent monthly data for wholesale prices in India, the wild gyrations of a humble vegetable tell the tale of an economy trapped in inflation by its own rigidities. Back in December, after a bumper harvest of potatoes, furious farmers dumped tonnes of their crop on roads in protest over a crash in prices: four months later, the annual wholesale inflation rate of the potato is galloping at...

12:33 PM, May 22, 2012