The Rajya Sabha, on Wednesday night, cleared the 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill, which seeks to provide 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education for the “economically weaker section” from the general category of citizens.
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The Constitution Amendment Bill, which provides for the provision of 10% quota for the economically weaker section in the general category, got approval from the Lok Sabha with 323 votes. Now, it will be presented in the Rajya Sabha, on Wednesday.
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In a significant move ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the BJP-led NDA government, on Monday, approved a 10 per cent reservation in jobs and higher education for “economically backward” sections in the general category.
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The police The notice sparked a controversy, which lead the Uttar Pradesh unit of the Congress to write to the state director general of police to stop Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh shakhas (meetings and drills) in parks as well.
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Union minister and RLSP leader Upendra Kushwaha has resigned from his post as minister of state for human resource development as well as from the NDA after a scuffle with ruling government over seat-sharing for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
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While responding to the criticism and clarifying the role of his department in the release of GDP back-series data by the Central Statistics Office, the NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said that the department was asked to look at the data before its release.
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Two petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court for contempt of court petitions against head priest of the famous Ayyappa temple and others for “blocking” the entry of women in the temple.
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The Tamil Nadu Raj Bhawan has strongly rejected reports published by the biweekly Tamil magazine Nakkeeran, which names the governor, Banwarilal Purohit, and his staff in a university sex scandal and termed the reports as yellow journalism.
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The Ayyappa Temple Association has filed a review petition, on Monday, in the Supreme Court against the court’s decision which had allowed women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala Ayappa temple in Kerala.
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