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“If you are so sympathetic towards backward class, why you don’t conduct BC census,” Mr Owaisi asked Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has sought to know why the BJP does not get “Backward Classes caste census” conducted if it was so concerned about the community. The statement comes a day after Union Home Minister Amit…
New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee has unanimously endorsed a call for caste census at a meeting held today. Sources said the initiative was of Rahul Gandhi who in an address to the party later, said the INDIA bloc will “put pressure on the BJP to conduct this”. The Prime Minister, Mr Gandhi said, is…
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Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the House floor after being ousted as Speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington on October 3, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Kevin McCarthy becomes the first speaker ever to be ousted from the job in a U.S. House vote Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday…
While an election resolution was adopted at the Mumbai meeting, a political resolution had to be dropped. Mumbai: Amid all the bonhomie on display, the third meeting of the INDIA alliance also saw one of the first major differences emerge between the opposition parties since they decided to band together in June. While an election…
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New Delhi: No other body other than the Union Government can conduct a caste census, the Supreme Court was told today. The Centre, in an affidavit, asserted that the Census Act, 1948, empowers only the Government to conduct the census. The move is a challenge to the Bihar government which in an earlier hearing informed…
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