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Akhilesh, Mayawati say BJP is fishing for women’s vote, using reservation as bait

Mayawati & Akhilesh Yadav attack Union Govt. for linking women's reservation Bill to census & delimitation. Demand quota be implemented "immediately" without census & delimitation. Yadav accuses BJP of making a mockery of serious issue & Mayawati demands 50% reservation for women.

The Hindu · Sep 20, 2023

Meitei group meets Rajnath, demands withdrawal of Assam Rifles from Manipur

The Defence Minister was also requested for the destruction of poppies with aircraft of the Indian Air Force. Mr. Rajnath gave assurance that it will be done if State government approaches the Union Government

The Hindu · Sep 15, 2023

The larger project of subverting the idea of India

In the simultaneous elections idea, lies the larger well-known ideological agenda of denying India its strength in heterogeneity

The Hindu · Sep 10, 2023

JD(U) takes out torchlight procession to expose BJP's double standard on caste survey

PATNA: Workers of the Patna Mahanagar and the Patna Gramin district units of the ruling JD(U) on Friday took out a torchlight procession in the state capital here as part of the party’s state-wide “Pol Khol Halla Bol Abhiyan” to expose the BJP and the BJP-led Union government’s attempt to…

The Times of India · Sep 1, 2023

Explained | Has the Right to Information been weakened over the years?

For 13 years, the Right to Information Act, 2005, helped citizens obtain information and data from the Government and State institutions, but has it been weakened?

The Hindu · Sep 1, 2023

Missing RTI info to be restored, website says, after years of data disappears

Years of missing Right to Information applications will be restored on the Union Government’s RTIOnline portal, the website said in a message on Thursday, after The Hindu reported that public records obtained by RTI applicants over many years had disappeared from many users’ accounts. The episode shed a light on…

The Hindu · Aug 24, 2023

An Act to cement digital authoritarianism

India requires a wider constitutional reboot on digital authoritarianism

The Hindu · Aug 16, 2023

Tribals in Andhra Pradesh’s non-ST villages feel left out

Notifying a tribal village under the Fifth Schedule gives it protection

The Hindu · Aug 8, 2023

National Exit Test (NExT) to be made mandatory for BDS graduates for licence to practice and dental PG courses

A common final-year undergraduate dental examination, to be known as the ‘National Exit Test (Dental)’ will be held for granting licence to practise dentistry. Any person with a foreign dental qualification will have to qualify NExT (Dental). The designated authority of the Union Government will conduct the common counselling for…

The Hindu · Aug 8, 2023

AISMK focusing on 2026 T.N. Assembly elections: Sarathkumar

All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) president R. Sarathkumar on Sunday said his party was focusing on the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and not on the next year’s Parliament elections.

The Hindu · Jul 30, 2023