
New Delhi: Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Union cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to fill vacancies for SCs and STs in Central Government jobs. The Cabinet has issued a directive for about 50,000 positions to be filled. The timing is significant as it comes just before the UP Assembly elections in February. The move obviously aimed at helping the Congress woo the voters in Mayawati's state and...

01:38 PM, Jan 04, 2012

Patna: LJP supremo Ramvilas Paswan on Friday threatened to resign from the Standing Committee on Lokpal in the parliament if Centre failed to ensure representation of SC, ST, women and minorities to the proposed Lokpal. "I will resign from the Standing Committee considering the proposal for Lokpal if my demand for giving representation of SC, ST, women and minorities is not met," Paswan told reporters. He said he had already...

07:10 PM, Nov 25, 2011

Lucknow: Going full throttle to woo SC and ST voters, Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding increase in quota for them as per their population and job reservation in the private sector and the judiciary. In her latest missive to Singh, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister contended there has been an increase in the population of these communities but the quota has remained static,...

04:33 PM, Oct 01, 2011

Bainsala has revived his agitation for Scheduled Tribe status. ...

12:34 AM, Jul 27, 2009

They wanted a sub-categorisation bill on SC/ST quotas introduced. ...

05:27 PM, Feb 04, 2009