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BJP and Congress have shifted their focus to the yearend polls, with both trying to reach out to different communities in Madhya Pradesh. Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan attended two meetings on Sunday and made a flood of promises.In…

A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said the government is "willing to take all legislative and statutory steps" to carry forward the survey of castes which has been stalled by the Patna High Court. Bihar Finance and…

By DEEPA BHARATH | Associated Press The California Senate voted 34-1 Thursday in favor of legislation outlawing caste discrimination in the state. If it passes in the state Assembly and is enacted, California could become the first state in…

The Patna High Court on Thursday ordered a stay on the caste survey being conducted by the Bihar government. Hearing a bunch of petitions, a division bench of Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad directed the state…

The Rashtriya Janata Dal, the largest constituent of Bihar's ruling alliance, on Thursday described as "unfortunate" the Patna High Court's decision to stay the ongoing caste survey in the state and said it is painful when institutions…

The direction Bihar politics will take following former parliamentarian Anand Mohan's release from jail is anyone's guess, but many in the state are seeing it as chief minister Nitish Kumar's attempt to blur rigid caste-lines in the…

The release of tainted politician Anand Mohan Singh from jail may help the JD(U)-RJD alliance in getting some support from the Rajput community, but the situation remains fluid as new caste equations emerge in Bihar ahead of the 2024 Lok…

Across India, musicians are using hip-hop to say, “This is us”; “Stop and reconsider”; “Join our cause”. In the US, the original home of this subculture, rap started out subversive, then went mainstream and softened its edges,…

In a dig at the ruling BJP, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said socialism is at the root of the great concept of "Ram Rajya" and it is possible only through a caste census. Yadav's statement comes days after several…

BJP sources on Wednesday cited the critical stance of previous Congress governments on the issue of caste census to accuse Rahul Gandhi of "hypocrisy" after the Congress leader came out strongly in support of the census demand in a bid to…