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Union Government Rolls Out Free Online Coaching For Disadvantaged Students
Free Online Coaching For Competitive Exams: The programme is open to candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, and beneficiaries of the PM CARES for Children Scheme from across India, including Odisha.
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"Bihari Doesn't Mean Backward": JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar To NDTV
Ahead of the highly anticipated Bihar Assembly elections, media executive and JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar made an appeal for the state to rise above its caste politics and focus on economic transformation.
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'Hope She Says Same When Centre...': Minister On Sudha Murty's Caste Survey 'No'
The Karnataka government has accepted Sudha Murty's refusal to reveal her caste in a non-mandatory statewide survey, but wondered if the BJP-nominated Rajya Sabha MP would do the same when the centre conducts its exercise.
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In Nitish Kumar's Bihar List, A Muslim Balancing Act, And Caste Equation Play
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) has fielded Muslim candidates in four seats for the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, carefully balancing caste equations with community vote banks in the politically sensitive state.
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Backward Castes, Professionals, Bureaucrats On Prashant Kishor's List: Sources
Election strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor, who declared that his Jan Suraaj Party would contest from every constituency in Bihar in the coming assembly election, is banking heavily on candidates from backward castes.
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Telangana Minister's "Regret" Note After Buffalo Remark Against Colleague
Telangana's Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar has expressed regret over the row over his remarks on cabinet colleague, Scheduled Caste Welfare Minister Adluri Laxman Kumar.
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Telangana Minister Compares Colleague With "Buffalo", Sparks Row In Congress
The Telangana Cabinet saw internal unrest as Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar allegedly referred to his Scheduled Caste Welfare colleague Adluri Laxman as a "buffalo" who "has no value for life".
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Daily Hearings In Madhya Pradesh's OBC Quota Case And Its Big Complications
The Supreme Court will begin day-to-day hearings on Madhya Pradesh's move to grant 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Castes or OBCs. The hearings will begin on October 8.
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"Fought All Members Of Lalu Yadav Family": BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Former Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy - four-time MP from Bihar -- has said he has become the voice of the ignored forward castes in Bihar, where politics, for the last few decades, has revolved around social justice and backward castes.
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1995 Bihar Polls: How 'Vikas Nahi Samman' Won Lalu Yadav Chief Ministership
Janata Dal won 167 of 324 seats in the 1995 Bihar polls, securing an absolute majority. The backward castes and Dalits finally felt empowered.
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Union Government Rolls Out Free Online Coaching For Disadvantaged Students
Free Online Coaching For Competitive Exams: The programme is open to candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, and beneficiaries of the PM CARES for Children Scheme from across India, including Odisha.
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"Bihari Doesn't Mean Backward": JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar To NDTV
Ahead of the highly anticipated Bihar Assembly elections, media executive and JioStar Vice Chairman Uday Shankar made an appeal for the state to rise above its caste politics and focus on economic transformation.
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'Hope She Says Same When Centre...': Minister On Sudha Murty's Caste Survey 'No'
The Karnataka government has accepted Sudha Murty's refusal to reveal her caste in a non-mandatory statewide survey, but wondered if the BJP-nominated Rajya Sabha MP would do the same when the centre conducts its exercise.
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In Nitish Kumar's Bihar List, A Muslim Balancing Act, And Caste Equation Play
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) has fielded Muslim candidates in four seats for the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, carefully balancing caste equations with community vote banks in the politically sensitive state.
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Backward Castes, Professionals, Bureaucrats On Prashant Kishor's List: Sources
Election strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor, who declared that his Jan Suraaj Party would contest from every constituency in Bihar in the coming assembly election, is banking heavily on candidates from backward castes.
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Telangana Minister's "Regret" Note After Buffalo Remark Against Colleague
Telangana's Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar has expressed regret over the row over his remarks on cabinet colleague, Scheduled Caste Welfare Minister Adluri Laxman Kumar.
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Telangana Minister Compares Colleague With "Buffalo", Sparks Row In Congress
The Telangana Cabinet saw internal unrest as Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar allegedly referred to his Scheduled Caste Welfare colleague Adluri Laxman as a "buffalo" who "has no value for life".
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Daily Hearings In Madhya Pradesh's OBC Quota Case And Its Big Complications
The Supreme Court will begin day-to-day hearings on Madhya Pradesh's move to grant 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Castes or OBCs. The hearings will begin on October 8.
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"Fought All Members Of Lalu Yadav Family": BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Former Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy - four-time MP from Bihar -- has said he has become the voice of the ignored forward castes in Bihar, where politics, for the last few decades, has revolved around social justice and backward castes.
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1995 Bihar Polls: How 'Vikas Nahi Samman' Won Lalu Yadav Chief Ministership
Janata Dal won 167 of 324 seats in the 1995 Bihar polls, securing an absolute majority. The backward castes and Dalits finally felt empowered.
