Mumbai: Bombay High Court recently asked the state govt to form a committee to consider allowing applicants to provide details of their mother's social status on the ‘Aaple Sarkar' portal for ...

Children of single mothers from other backward classes should be entitled to OBC certificates irrespective of the parents’ marital status, the Centre has told the Supreme Court, adding that it was for ...

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday refused to grant an 18-year-old student the Scheduled Category (SC) status of his mother as his estranged father belonged to the Other Backward Class (OBC) ...

Chennai: The issue of legal validity of verifying the community certificate or caste status of a govt employee after retirement from service is to be considered by a larger bench of Madras high court.

The Indian Railways is concerned over the inordinate delay in verifying the genuineness of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Backwards Classes certificates of employees. In a note sent to General ...

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has made it clear that the burden of proving that the individual does not belong to the claimed caste rests with the authorities themselves when government ...

In a significant move, the central government has approved a caste census, which means castes will be counted in the upcoming national census. This development could make it mandatory for many ...

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court ruled that even if Scheduled Tribe certificates are issued to the parents of a person, claiming the benefit of reservation, he/she should get the caste certificate ...