The wheels of Mandal have not stopped turning, and though they struck the most sparks and caused the maximum friction in the turbulent 1990s, their force is not yet spent. They can, potentially, still do both — deepen the constitutional promise of substantive equality, and unsettle and divide politically. This was underlined by the Supreme Court’s important verdict this week permitting the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for the purpose of reservation. It extended the sub-classification principle from OBCs to SCs/STs, holding that it is not unconstitutional to…
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Opposition protests ‘discriminatory’ Budget inside and outside Parliament: ‘No one has got justice’ | India News
The Opposition on Wednesday staged a protest inside and outside the Parliament over alleged discrimination against non-National Democratic Alliance (NDA) states in the Union Budget 2024, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday. Members of the INDIA bloc first protested outside the Makar Dwar of the Parliament building. Then, during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, they raised slogans about alleged injustice to Opposition-ruled states. Outside, leaders of the Congress, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, along with those of the Trinamool Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Samajwadi Party…
Framed by Kerala cop in spy case, ISRO scientists’s 30-year fight for justice | Thiruvananthapuram News
With the CBI saying in its chargesheet that an officer of the Kerala police’s special branch fabricated the 1994 espionage case, former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was among those arrested in the case and later exonerated, said this would inspire confidence in others implicated in false cases. “I had to fight for 30 years to get justice. I am happy that the case is coming to a conclusion when I am alive. I have fought several cases in various courts to bring to justice those who implicated us in…
‘Immense disrepute’: Unease in Jaipur’s Johri Bazar as US woman, sold fake jewellery worth Rs 6 crore, awaits justice | Jaipur News
An American jewellery designer, a viral news report on the sale of fake jewellery and an FIR have led to unease in Jaipur’s famous Johri Bazar, one of the biggest markets for coloured precious stones in the country. During a trunk show in Kansas City, US, on April 11, US-based Cherish Nortje, 43, was informed that the 478 jewellery pieces designed by her — and manufactured by a Jaipur-based jeweller for $4,50,000 (around Rs 4 crore) — were “fake”. Two months later, sitting in a restaurant in Jaipur, where she…