Monthly Archives: March 2015

In a judgment with far reaching consequences for reservation politics in India, the Supreme Court on March 17 scrapped the UPA government’s March 2014 notification that included Jats in the Central List of Other Backward Classes (OBC) in nine States. In Ram Singh & Others vs Union of India (WP … Read More →

Jammu & Kashmir is at a momentous crossroad. The coalition hammered out by the Peoples Democratic Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party after two months of negotiations, necessitated by the need to respect the largest voter turnout in the State’s history and bridge the regional divide created by that verdict, … Read More →