S. Ramadoss. File | Photo Credit: M. Samraj Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president S. Ramadoss on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) said the Vanniyar Sangam, the parent body of the PMK, would organise protests in all district headquarters across the State in the first week of December, demanding the immediate implementation of a 10.5% internal reservation … Read more
The Tamil Nadu government will provide 4% reservation in promotion to its employees with benchmark disabilities. It has issued instructions in this regard. However, one of the instructions allows the government to exempt any of its establishments from provisions of Section 34 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. According to the instructions, … Read more
The forum for safeguarding reservation for Scheduled Castes of Karnataka, on Thursday, demanded the State government to implement internal reservation among the Scheduled Castes, in view of the recent Supreme Court’s judgement. The forum conducted a State-level seminar on the issue at Ambedkar Bhavan in Shivamogga. The participants in the events stated that the untouchables … Read more
M.K. Stalin | Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan The judgement of the seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, in a 6:1 ratio, upholding the validity of Tamil Nadu Arunthathiyars Reservation Act, 2009, is yet another recognition for the Dravidian model government, said Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on … Read more
Social activist Sunny M. Kapikkad opening a protest outside the University of Calicut at Tenhipalam in Malappuram on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A group of Dalit organisations under the aegis of the Forum for Social Justice staged a token protest on Monday outside the University of Calicut campus at Tenhipalam in Malappuram against … Read more
What’s the connection between Women’s Reservation Bill and Karnataka? | Video Credit: Ravichandran N With this, the 128th Constitutional Amendment Bill, or the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, will reserve one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and the legislative assemblies for women. Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded during an interaction with women on … Read more
“This (Women’s Reservation Bill) is not yours (Congress)… It is BJP’s Bill… you (Congress) are trying to play politics with this Bill alsom” BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said in the Lok Sabha on September 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI As the discussion on the Women’s Reservation Bill began in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, … Read more
Despite strides in local bodies, representation of women in the Karnataka Assembly has remained poor. The current Assembly with a strength of 224 has just 10 women MLAs and the 34-member cabinet has no more than one woman Minister. | Photo Credit: File Photo While the Women’s Reservation Bill introduced in the Parliament on Tuesday … Read more
Protesters have been camping in tents after blocking a 1-km stretch of NH-21 near Arauda village since April 21. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Jaipur-Agra national highway remained blocked in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, as protesters demanding 12% separate reservation for a group of Other Backward Class (OBC) … Read more
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) MLA ‘Aloor’ Mohamed J. Shanavas on Friday said in the Assembly that many among the younger generation seemed to be against reservation and language rights. Participating in the discussion on demands for School Education and Higher Education Departments on Friday, he said he observed this from the questions that were asked … Read more