The 126th Constitutional Amendment Bill seeks to extend this special provision of reservation of seats for members of SC/ST communities till January 2030.
A major controversy erupted last month when the top court diluted certain provisions in the law, prohibiting automatic arrest of government servants among others.
The Supreme Court had last month diluted stringent provisions in the SC/ST Act. The order triggered a nationwide outrage with opposition parties alleging that the changes made by the court will make the law ineffective.
The Supreme Court had last month diluted certain provisions under the SC/ST Act including to stop automatic arrest of government servants on mere complaints filed against them. The court had said that it was needed to stop mi
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government has taken note of the directives of the apex court about laying down new norms and will soon do the needful.
Ever since the data breach row erupted, Facebook is facing ire from various world quarters for misusing personal information of its users' without their knowledge.
Agressively targeting Congress and Samajwadi Party at the BJP National Executive meeting, Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said, "Two years of Modi government have been of "No corruption government". However, 10 years of Congres
As the Department of Posts is gearing up to set up a payments bank, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday wrote to its employees saying India Post Payments Bank...
Govt today reacted sharply to Finmeccanica's warning to reassess ongoing projects of supplying components to India, which has initiated process of blacklisting the Italian firm, saying no threat can scare it.
From extension of Chennai Metro Rail project to proposal to set up India Post payments bank, the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved a slew of decisions.
Government today cleared proposal to set up India Post payments bank with a corpus of Rs 800 crore and has plans to have 650 branches operational by September 2017, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
Government is working on a mobile application which will give access to over 1,000 services from Centre and state governments and would be launched by December 2016, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
The communications ministry is ready to consider any proposal to empower the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and give it punitive powers, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Monday
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has directed the Department of Telecom to look into the call drop masking technology being used by mobile service providers.
Receiving Ganga water by post could be a reality soon as the government endeavours to tap the e-commerce platform to bring the holy water at the doorsteps.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who is on his third trip to India in just seven months, met MoS Finance Jayant Sinha and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The Centre will continue to take up the issue of hike in visa fees for Indian software professionals working in the US at the highest level with that government, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
India Post's payments bank will start functioning from March 2017 and serve as a wider platform to implement financial inclusion programmes, IT & Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.