Ram Vilas Paswan pitches for quota in judiciary

The constant collaboration by Paswan and Nitish are being seen as a major step to strengthen the National Democratic Alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. PATNA: With an aim to woo the Dalits, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Food Supply ...

States should issue strict directions to sugar mills to clear their dues to sugarcane farmers and consider taking action against defaulting factory owners, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today while expressing concern over rising arrears which have ...

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has favoured inclusion of the SC/ST Act and reservations for Dalits in Ninth Schedule of the Constitution so that they cannot be challenged in a court of law.  Laws under the Ninth Schedule are beyond the purview of judicial review. The Supreme Court, however,  in 2007 had ruled that any law placed in the Ninth Schedule after April 24, 1973, would be subject to scrutiny of courts if they violated fundamental rights. "I would also urge the government to ...

No power can abolish the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan said today.

BJP National President Amit Shah visited the Amba Vilas palace in Mysuru on Friday morning and spent some time conversing with the members of the Wadiyar royal family-- the rulers of erstwhile Mysore state. Shah, who arrived in Mysuru at midnight on Thursday ...

More than sixth months after funds were allocated for setting up a breast milk bank in Vani Vilas Hospital, the first-of-its-kind facility in a state-run institution is yet to take shape. Rs 36 lakh was released under the National Health Mission to the ...

He expressed concern over some leaders of the ruling NDA at the Centre occasionally making remarks that created an impression of the alliance being against certain sections of the society.

The bank had registered a net profit of Rs 78.38 crore in the corresponding quarter of 2016-17.

P Vilas, a Kalaburagi advocate, has presented two people cheques of Rs 50,000 each, for having acted without communal bias and attempted to save Abdul Basheer who was killed in communal strife in Mangaluru on January 3, 2018. Dakshina Kannada Deputy ...