Reports have emerged from Kathur village in the Maniyarsyun Patti area of Pauri district, where a Scheduled Caste woman's ...

While other backward classes had a share of 9 per cent, there were no scheduled tribe billionaires. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Caste shows, even in riches. More than 85 per cent of total ...

A seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court today okayed sub-classification within Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories to provide reservation in jobs and education for the ...

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairperson Kishore Makwana has accused the Karnataka government of diverting over Rs 14,000 crore funds from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Atrocities against members of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities continue to be a concern across the state. Last year more than 11,000 cases of ...

However, independent India since 1951 only counted Dalits and Adivasis, who are referred to as scheduled castes and tribes, respectively. Everyone else’s caste was marked as general. The next ...

The caste certificate of a person, belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe, seeking public employment requires to be validated as per the law if the caste certificates of parents of such ...

Haryana will subclassify Scheduled Castes into two groups for job reservations, following a Supreme Court ruling, aiming to better represent disadvantaged communities. Chandigarh Haryana will ...

Following the contentious caste census, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has announced a statewide survey to gather empirical data on Scheduled Caste (SC) sub-castes. The exercise ...