States cannot tinker with Scheduled Castes List, Supreme Court holds

States cannot tinker with Scheduled Castes List, Supreme Court holds

A view of the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The Supreme Court has held that States cannot tinker with the Scheduled Castes List notified under Article 341 of the Constitution. “Any inclusion or exclusion of any caste, race or tribe or part of or group within the … Read more

Will BJP revoke Emergency decision and shift education from State to Concurrent List, asks TN CM Stalin

Will BJP revoke Emergency decision and shift education from State to Concurrent List, asks TN CM Stalin

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin with a child of St. Anne’s Primary School at Keezhacheri in Tiruvallur district during the expansion of Tamil Nadu government’s flagship Chief Minister’s breakfast scheme, on July 15, 2024.  | Photo Credit: DIPR Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on July 15 questioned whether the BJP-led Union government would come … Read more

Congress CEC vets Telangana list for Lok Sabha polls, clears four names

Congress CEC vets Telangana list for Lok Sabha polls, clears four names

T. Jeevan Reddy (Nizamabad LS candidate) Neelam Madhu Mudiraj (Medak Congress LS candidate)  Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy Congress party’s Central Election Committee met in New Delhi on Wednesday night and cleared four names for the Lok Sabha elections. The party has named Congress MLC T. Jeevan Reddy (Nizamabad), TPCC vice-president Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy (Bhuvanagiri), … Read more

Lok Sabha polls | PMK releases first list of 9 candidates for T.N.

Lok Sabha polls | PMK releases first list of 9 candidates for T.N.

PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss released the party’s first list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on Friday, March 22, 2024. File photograph | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday, March 22, 2024, released the party’s first list of nine candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The … Read more

AIADMK Announces Second List of Lok Sabha Nominees

AIADMK Announces Second List of Lok Sabha Nominees

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami released the second list of his party’s candidates who will be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The AIADMK released its second list of nominees on Thursday, March 21, 2024, for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, and stuck to its approach of fielding … Read more