Protests by the Lingayat Panchamasali community in Belagavi, Karnataka, turned violent on Tuesday as protesters demanded quotas. The police lathi-charged when protesters tried breaching a security cordon. Watch for more details!

Quota Protests in Karnataka Turn Violent

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that began as protests against job quotas and swelled into a movement demanding her ouster.

Crowds swarm Sheikh Hasina's private residence as she resigns and flies out of country amid protests

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son and former official adviser of Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said in an interview on Monday that she will not enter politics again. He asserted that on her family's insistence, she left the country for her own safety.

Sheikh Hasina's son Joy says Bangladesh's 'iron lady' wouldn't return to politics "ever"

Mr. Jaishankar said that the country had been facing “considerable tension, deep divides and growing polarisation in Bangladesh politics,” since its General elections in January 2024. He continued that this aggravated a student agitation that began in June.

S Jaishankar addresses the Bangladesh crisis in Rajya Sabha

In an effort to address Bangladesh's ongoing dilemma, leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement have proposed an interim administration headed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

Bangladesh's student leaders call for Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus to head interim government

At least 93 people, including 14 policemen were killed and hundreds injured in clashes in Bangladesh. Rubber bullets were used by the police to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign.

Bangladesh Protest: Renewed anti-government protests leave nearly 100 dead

Bangladesh Protest: Bangladesh is on the boil again, indefinite curfew imposed

At least 91 people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign.

Bangladesh Protests: At least 91 killed as clashes rock Bangladesh, curfew imposed

Bangladesh on August 5 saw a dramatic and unforeseen end of Sheikh Hasina's 20-year rule when the prime minister fled from the capital Dhaka to a "safer place" in a military chopper.

Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh's tainted leader who once promised 'democracy' only to get toppled by it

Bangladesh's capital Dhaka is now slowly returning to normalcy after a 4-day nationwide shutdown that was triggered by deadly student protest against quotas for government jobs

Bangladesh: Calm returns to streets after 4-day nationwide shutdown

Students in Bangladesh set fire to the country's state broadcaster headquarters on Thursday (July 18). The escalation occurred a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appeared on the network while appealing for peace as fierce clashes continue to take a heavy toll on Bangladeshi lives and their lifelines. At the time of filing this report, at least 32 people were reported dead in the clashes. Watch in for more details!

Bangladesh quota protests: Students demand transparency in Government jobs

Thousands of job reform protesters in Bangladesh clashed with police on Wednesday (July 17), a day after violent clashes left six people dead and scores injured.

Bangladesh protests: US urges Bangladesh to uphold right to peaceful protest

The Maharashtra government has now proposed a 10% quarter for the Maratha community, According to the socially and educationally backward classes Bill 2024. The Maharashtra cabinet has approved the draft of the bill for 10% Maratha reservation in education and government jobs. The bill has received cabinet nod and it will be presented to the State Assembly and the council today in a special session. Watch to know more!

Maharashtra cabinet approves 'Maratha Quota Bill' with 10% quota

India's Punjab and Haryana High Court declared as unconstitutional the Haryana government's 2020 law, which mandated a 75 per cent job reservation for locals in the private sector.

India: Court strikes down Haryana's 75% job reservation law for locals in private sector

Is it time for India to revisit the relevance of reservation? Is Quota holding India's healthcare service hostage? Is reservation killing merit and giving undue advantage to a selected few? Listen in to Palki Sharma.

Gravitas: Should India revisit the relevance of reservation?

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said that reservation should be given to the "oppressed, Dalit, socially and economically backward sections," however thinking that a community will progress by reservation alone is not true.

Not true that just by giving reservation, community will progress: Nitin Gadkari

Both the big Tamil Nadu parties said Tuesday that they would urge the government of India to order the release of the seven people convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

2019 Lok Sabha polls: AIADMK, DMK say will urge Centre to release 7 convicted in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday addressed a joint press conference on key decisions taken by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening.

Union Cabinet approves Constitution amendment to pave way for 10% quota to EWS in J&K

The Rajasthan Assembly on February 13 passed a bill granting 5 percent reservation to Gujjars and four other communities in jobs and educational institutions. The government had introduced the Rajasthan Backward Classes (Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutes in the State and of Appointments and Posts in Services under the State) Amendment Bill, 2019, in the Assembly for giving reservation to Gujjars and the other castes.

Amidst violent protests, Rajasthan Assembly passes bill granting 5% quota to Gujjars

The Bihar Cabinet has approved the Centre`s scheme of 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker general candidates in government jobs and educational institutions in the state on Friday.

Bihar cabinet approves Centre's 10% quota for economically weaker general category

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday hit out at critics of the 10 per cent quota for the economically weaker sections, saying some persons in Tamil Nadu were creating an "atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust" to serve their interest.

10% quota will not affect reservations for Dalits, tribals & others: Modi in Tamil Nadu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the bill to give 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education to the general category poor will boost the "self-confidence of new India", asserting that existing quota policy for SCs, STs and OBCs is as strong as it was and will remain so.

Quota for general category poor will boost confidence of new India: PM Modi

Soon after the Centre approved 10 percent quota for economically weaker upper castes in government jobs and education, several political leaders called the decision a politically-motivated move ahead of 2019 general elections.

Opposition corners Centre over general category quota

The Government on Tuesday introduced a Bill in Lok Sabha for 10 per cent reservation in jobs and educational institutions for economically backward section in the general category.

Government introduces quota bill in Lok Sabha

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