Coalgate fallout: Bill for SC/ST quota in promotions in limbo as BJP forces...
Download free ET iPad add for easier viewing of latest and financial News ! Both houses of Parliament were adjourned for the 11th consecutive day on Wednesday as the BJP continued its protest on the...
View ArticleBill for promotions of SC/STs to be tabled in Rajya Sabha today
Download free ET iPad add for easier viewing of latest and financial News ! The principal opposition, BJP, is unlikely to suspend its ongoing protest over the coal blocks allocations, which has...
View ArticleGovt moves Bill, DMK backs SP on OBC quota
On a day that the UPA government introduced the Constitution (117th Amendment) Bill, 2012, in the Rajya Sabha to provide quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotions, ally DMK came...
View ArticleMayawati launches attack on Congress
New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati yesterday launched a scathing attack on the ruling Congress party and accused it of playing a double role over the job quota bill. The...
View Article13/20: another low-yield parliament session ends (Roundup)
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Parliament's monsoon session ended Friday with 13 of the 20 days washed out due to BJP protests over coal block allocations and the bitter stand-off set to continue as...
View ArticlePlaying politics over a Constitutional right
There was far more political wrangling over the quota Bill, than the Samajwadi Party’s opposition to it. The Constitution (One Hundred Seventeenth Amendment) Bill, which sought to introduce...
View ArticleSP protests promotion quota bill
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party (SP) Wednesday said it will hold street protests against the UPA government introducing a bill to provide quotas in promotions in government jobs....
View ArticleSP, BSP MPs clash over promotion quota
Two legislators belonging to the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) nearly came to blows in the Rajya Sabha Wednesday as they clashed over the contentious Bill which seeks to introduce...
View ArticleUPA split as SP, DMK oppose SC/ST Quota Bill
New Delhi: Undeterred by unruly scenes in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, the government would try to bring the Bill providing quota in promotions to SC/ST in government jobs on Thursday in Parliament...
View ArticleDMK backs SP's demand for extending promotion quota to OBCs
SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet In a move that might complicate UPA govt's efforts to push through the quota bill, its key ally DMK backed SP's demand for extending similar quota to OBCs also. CHENNAI: In a...
View Article'Mulayam Singh now running away from corrupt Congress': BJP
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 12 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday alleged that Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) was disconnecting itself with the ruling Congress Party for it...
View ArticleSP, BSP MPs scuffle over promotion quota bill
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was marred for the 11th day Wednesday over the 'coalgate' saga, but it was an ugly clash between a BSP and a Samajwadi Party MP that generated the most...
View ArticleMPs scuffle in RS over promotion quota bill
SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet Scuffle in the Rajya Sabha over the promotion quota bill. NEW DELHI: First, it was the Lok Sabha which had begun to resemble state assemblies in terms of unseemly episodes....
View ArticleTrouble likely in quota bill passage, PM meets ministers
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Hinting at trouble in getting the promotion quota bill passed in parliament, the government Wednesday said there is little time during the monsoon session, with the prime...
View ArticleSC/ST job promotions quota bill in Rajya Sabha today
Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: The government will table a Bill providing for reservation to SCs and STs in promotions in government jobs in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The bill is being introduced in...
View ArticleSC/ST job promotions quota bill in Parliament today
Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: The government will table a Bill providing for reservation to SCs and STs in promotions in government jobs in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The bill is being introduced in...
View ArticleCabinet clears SC, ST quota in promotions
SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet The government will try to pass a constitutional amendment bill aimed at securing unfettered reservation in promotion for scheduled castes and tribes in Rajya Sabha. NEW DELHI:...
View ArticleSC/ST job promotions quota bill introduced in RS
Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: Amid pandemonium, the government tabled a Bill providing for reservation to SCs and STs in promotions in government jobs in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The bill was...
View ArticleNow, a Mandal wrench to unlock Parliament logjam
The UPA has come up with an idea to break the Parliament deadlock. It will move a bill in the Rajya Sabha today that would provide SCs and STs with reservations when it comes to promotions in...
View ArticleSP opposes quota bill, calls it 'unconstitutional'
New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday dubbed as "unconstitutional" the bill to provide reservation in promotion for SCs and STs in government jobs and threatened to oppose the measure tooth and...
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