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REVISING the criteria for applying creamy layer criteria for other backward classes, the Union cabinet on Thursday raised the income limit to Rs 6 lakh per annum from the existing Rs 4.5 lakh per annum that will allow more persons to take advantage ...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) will conduct the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship and Lectureship in social science subjects on June 30. The objective-type multiple-choice test has three papers. The 75-minute ...

More young people from the other backward classes (OBCs) will be entitled to quota in jobs and education in government institutes with the Centre set to relax the creamy layer bar. The cabinet will Thursday consider a proposal to raise the bar to annual ...

SACP Gauteng held a Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) meeting in the District of Sedibeng, Evaton on the 08th-9th June 2013. Meeting in Sedibeng is part of PEC decision to hold its PEC meetings in working class areas such as townships and ...

JALANDHAR: National Commission for Scheduled Castes Vice Chairman Dr. Raj Kumar Verka today directed the commissionerate police not to arrest any person booked in the case of thrashing Inspector Dharambir SHO, Jalandhar Cantonment for his alleged ...

(PPI-OT): Executive Director National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) Rashid Bashir Mazari has said that Foreign Countries are going to clamp down on Un-Accredited, Un-Licensed and Un-Certified Labour by 2015. At Present this ...

Inclusion of castes/communities in the Central List of Other Backward Classes is a continuous process. The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment notifies castes/ communities in the Central List of OBCs for different States/Union Territories on ...

The failure of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has augmented the migration of labourers from Bihar, a New Delhi-based organisation has said in its survey report. The survey was conducted among 3,037 respondents from two ...

Amidst the elevation of BJP leader Narendra Modi to the national platform, a section of the Congress leaders in Karnataka is trying to project Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as a national level leader of backward classes to counter him. Both Modi and ...