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UGC chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said: “Seats remain vacant in some central universities even after three or four rounds of counselling. To keep the seats vacant for an entire academic year is not only a waste of resources but also results in denial of quality higher education to many students who aspire to pursue higher…

TOI has learnt that the projects include 68-km Ayodhya Bypass, 121-km Guwahati Ring Road, 516-km Kharagpur-Siliguri expressway, 6-lane Agra Gwalior greenfield highway (88 km) and an 30-km long elevated highway having eight lanes between Nasik and Khed (Pune). All the projects will be built on public private partnership (PPP) mode, sources said. NHAI has invited…

Justice Bhushan R Gavai, the lone Dalit judge in the seven-judge bench that permitted sub-categorisation of castes within the SC community, showed courage in tackling what has been a political hot potato and asked states to devise a framework to identify and eliminate creamy layer among SCs and STs from availing reservation benefits. He said…

Dividing the SCs at the grand national level, away from localised state audiences, risks attracting the cumulative ire of stronger Dalit groups from across the states, who would view it as a hostile act cutting into their share of affirmative action benefits.

In 2001, UP had constituted the Hukam Singh Committee, which found that benefits of reservation had not percolated down to people belonging to the most depressed classes. It said Yadavs alone garnered the maximum share of jobs. It had recommended sub-categorisation of the list of SCs/OBCs.

What may seem like a dull detail is in fact a sign of Madiga’s commitment to his cause. He has decided that he will keep wearing black as a mark of protest until discrimination against Dalits ends. Any picture from the past 30 years — there are many of him protesting — shows him in…

The opposition accused government of endangering children’s intellectual integrity by revising textbooks. Congress MP Mohammad Jawed argued that the Mughals, who ruled for around 330 years, cannot be erased from history simply by deleting their names.