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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Review: Sanatan by Sharankumar Limbale

If reading for you is an exercise primarily in pleasure seeking, then Sharankumar Limbale’s novel will make you deeply uncomfortable. The battle in question is the war waged by upper castes on the bodies of Mahars, and the disfigured book is a harrowing archive documenting that barbarity in the form of a novel: Sanatan. Throughout this sprawling work, Limbale shifts …

Dalit British Hindu Sanatan Novel Characters Upper Castes

1 month, 2 weeks ago

CSDS-Lokniti Survey: BJP builds a broad caste coalition, garnering Maratha and OBC votes - The Hindu

The Hindu

For the past three decades, Maharashtra has seen continuous fragmentation of various caste groups, but notably the Maratha-Kunbi caste cluster. Since then, the BJP and the Shiv Sena together and separately kept trying to win a larger share of both the Maratha and the OBC vote. In the process, these social sections have also supported the other two partners of …

Support Congress Caste Mahayuti Maratha State Vote

A Precursory Look at Community-wise Voting in Maharashtra and Jharkhand

The Quint

In Maharashtra, caste is the very foundation of the political battleground. The OBCs, who constitute 38 percent of the state’s population, played a decisive role in this election, won by the Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, the Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar's NCP. Despite agitation over the reservation and dissatisfaction with unresolved demands, the BJP managed to retain a significant …

Maharashtra Maratha Bjp

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Sameer Wankhede seeks CBI probe against Nawab Malik

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: Indian Revenue Service officer Sameer Wankhede on Thursday approached the Bombay high court seeking a court-monitored probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation or any other independent agency into an atrocities case against Nationalist Congress Party leader and former minister Nawab Malik. Though the offence registered against Malik was cognisable and non-bailable, he was neither arrested nor had police …

Mumbai Wankhede Irs Petition Nawab Malik Sameer Wankhede

Atrocities case: IRS officer Wankhede moves HC seeking independent probe against Nawab Malik

Hindustan Times

Mumbai, Sameer Wankhede, former zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, has urged the Bombay High Court to transfer the probe into an atrocities case against NCP leader Nawab Malik to an independent agency like the CBI. Atrocities case: IRS officer Wankhede moves HC seeking independent probe against Nawab Malik Wankhede, an additional commissioner in the Directorate General of Taxpayer …

Caste Case Wankhede Khan Officer Probe Irs

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Maharashtra Elections: Disputed Villages Push for Land Rights

Deccan Chronicle

Adilabad: Voters from 14 disputed villages along the Telangana-Maharashtra border are set to participate in the Rajura Assembly Constituency elections in Maharashtra on November 20. On the final day of campaigning, rural development minister Seethakka and Backward Classes Minister Ponnam Prabhakar actively campaigned in Ghadchandur in Rajura and Ballarpur Assembly Constituencies on November 18, supporting their party’s candidates. Senior Congress …

Maharashtra Congress Land Rights Land Telangana Villages

1 month, 4 weeks ago

How to cook chicken liver from Marathwada’s Dalit kitchens

Live Mint

If anything has lived, we will eat it," my father once boasted. We could make choices that, as Shahu Patole indicates in his book, Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, were not available to people like him at the bottom of Hindu society. Patole’s book deals primarily with the lowest of Dalit subcastes in the Maharashtra region of Marathwada: the Mahar and …

Dalit Marathwada Add Cook Eat Chilli Liver

2 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP's Dalit Outreach in Maharashtra: A Strategy for Consolidation

Hindustan Times

Kiren Rijiju's recent trip to Maharashtra highlights the BJP's strategy to reach out to Dalit voters. The party has carefully curated a schedule of meetings to engage with Dalit communities across the state, emphasizing the importance of their religious and historical significance. The objective is to increase voter awareness and turnout among Dalits, who comprise 5.57% of the Maharashtra electorate. …

Politics Law Religion Social Issues Nashik

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Bhima Koregaon case timeline

Hindustan Times

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case, saying it might take several years for the trial to conclude considering the number of witnesses and other pertinent factors. Navlakha was arrested for allegedly making provocative remarks in December 2017 at an Elgar Parishad conference a day before violence …

Supreme Court High Court 2018 Court Bail Case Pune

8 months, 1 week ago

Women block Army contingent carrying weapons seized from armed group in Manipur

The Hindu

Eleven armed miscreants dressed in police uniforms who were intercepted by the Army in Manipur’s Bishnupur district in the early hours on Tuesday were “snatched by womenfolk during an aggressive confrontation” with the security forces, the Manipur Police said. Later in the day, around hundred women blocked the Army contingent carrying the weapons seized from the armed miscreants. Police said …

Women Army Manipur

8 months, 1 week ago

Congress has an edge over its opponents in Peddapalli

Deccan Chronicle

Adilabad: Congress candidate Gaddam Vamsi appears to have an edge over his rivals Koppula Eshwar and Gomasa Srinivas in the Peddapalli Lok Sabha constituency, as the party had won all its seven Assembly segments in the recent state polls. BRS candidate Koppula Eshwar claimed that there was an anti-Congress wave in the constituency and the party campaign was drawing a …

Congress Bjp Candidate Brs Singareni Peddapalli Eshwar

8 months, 3 weeks ago

BR Ambedkar Jayanti 2024: 10 timeless quotes by the architect of India's Constitution

Hindustan Times

Ambedkar Jayanti is also known as Bhim Jayanti and is celebrated as a public holiday across India since 2015 to celebrate the champion of Dalit rights and the principal architect of the Indian Constitution, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who was born on April 14, 1891 in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow. He is fondly called Babasaheb by his followers and each year, …

India Constitution Ambedkar Dr Br Ambedkar

11 months ago

Governments urged to take control of renewable rollout to combat community distrust

ABC

In short : Australia's Energy Infrastructure Commissioner Andrew Dyer says developers are creating mistrust towards the renewable rollout in the regions. : Australia's Energy Infrastructure Commissioner Andrew Dyer says developers are creating mistrust towards the renewable rollout in the regions. "The potential for new transmission lines … has unleashed a plethora of wind and solar farm developers, descending on the …

Energy Projects Report Transmission Renewable Dyer Developers

1 year, 1 month ago

No Service Tax Payable On Service Of Laying Of Pipeline For Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage Board: CESTAT

Live Law

The Ahmedabad Bench of Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that no service tax is payable on the service of laying a pipeline for the Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board.The bench of Ramesh Nair and C. L. Mahar has observed that the service of laying pipelines for GWSSB does not fall under the service of. The …

Board Supply Water Gujarat Pipeline Stat Sewerage

1 year, 2 months ago

Pollution Control Services Of Factory Are Input Services, Eligible For Cenvat Credit: CESTAT

Live Law

The Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that services that are in relation to pollution control in the factory are input services in terms of Rule 2 of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 and hence are eligible for Cenvat credit.The bench of Ramesh Nair and C.L. The Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that …

Environmental Credit Pollution Factory Pollution Control Production Received

1 year, 3 months ago

Uttarakhand: 7 feared dead as car buries under debris triggered by landslide

Hindustan Times

At least seven people were feared dead after the car they were travelling in was buried under heavy debris triggered by a landslide on the Dharchula-Gunji road in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh on Sunday, a senior official said. Bhupendra Singh Mahar, district disaster management officer, Pithoragarh, said the incident took place around 1pm. He said, “The rescue teams from SDRF, Police, ITBP …

Uttarakhand Dharchula

1 year, 3 months ago

Farmers are bracing for another drought. Here's what it might mean for food prices

ABC

Australia is drying out and farmers are concerned drought is returning to parts of the country. Key points: Australian farmers are increasingly nervous about a return to dry conditions The dry weather is expected to take a $16 billion toll this financial year Treasury analysis says climate change could reduce crop yields by 4 per cent by 2063 Confirmation that …

Weather Farmers Drought Rainfall South Billion Dirranbandi

1 year, 3 months ago

Exemption Claim On Service Of Rent-A-Cab Provided In SEZ To Be Supported By Invoices: CESTAT

Live Law

The Ahmedabad Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that exemption claim on service of rent-a-cab provided in Special Economic Zone to be supported by invoices.The bench of Ramesh Nair and C.L. The Ahmedabad Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that exemption claim on service of rent-a-cab provided in Special Economic …

Service Provided Assessee Sez Cest Invoice Exemption Claim

1 year, 3 months ago

CISF Lacked Clarity About Leviability Of Service Tax On The Security Services; CESTAT Quashes Penalty

Live Law

The Ahmedabad Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has quashed the penalty on the Central Industrial Security Force on the grounds that CISF lacked clarity about the leviability of service tax on the security services.The bench of Ramesh Nair and C. L. Mahar observed that since there was a lack of clarity about. The Ahmedabad Bench …

Tax Central Stat Clarity Cest Service Tax Security Service

1 year, 4 months ago

RS passes four Bills, including data protection Bill, in Opposition’s absence

The Hindu

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Constitution Order Bill, the Anusandhan National Research Foundation Bill, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill and the Coastal Aquaculture Authority Bill. “The proposed legislation will help expand the benefits of government schemes and benefits meant for Scheduled Castes in the State to around two lakh more people,” Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment …

Opposition Coastal Aquaculture Amendment Bill Scheduled Castes Mahar

1 year, 5 months ago

Calling out injustice: review of Aakash Singh Rathore’s ‘Becoming Babasaheb’

The Hindu

A new biography of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is always a special event. Latest in the line of biographies of this exceptional and full life is Aakash Singh Rathore’s work, Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Birth to Mahad. He notes insightfully that in the earlier years, Ambedkar’s affable personal manner had tempered the bluntness of his …

India Social Justice Life British His Life Columbia Ambedkar

1 year, 6 months ago

Bleeding blue in Nanded | Where celebrating Ambedkar’s birthday is a crime

The Hindu

/ repeat shuffle If Vandana Bai had to describe her son Akshay Shravan Bhalerao in one word, it is “resolute”. What one of the men, Santosh Tidke, shouted particularly stuck with him: “He said, ‘These two must be killed for celebrating Bhim Jayanti.’” That is when Akash began fearing for their lives. They warned him against trying to become a …

Community Dalits Dalit Maharashtra Blue Fir Residents

1 year, 7 months ago

Department Should Not Have Invoked The Extended Time Period For Issuance Of Second Show Cause Notice Demanding Service Tax: CESTAT

Live Law

The Ahmedabad Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that the second show cause notice should have been for a normal period of demand and the department should not have invoked the extended time period for demanding service tax.The bench of C.L. The Ahmedabad Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has …

Tax Service Cause Period Notice Demand Department

1 year, 8 months ago

No Excise Duty Payable On Amortization Cost Of The Cylinder: CESTAT

Live Law

The Ahmedabad Bench of the Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that no excise duty is payable on the amortization cost of the cylinder.The bench of Ramesh Nair and C.L. Mahar has observed that for the purpose of valuation of the packaging material, the amortization cost of the cylinder needs to be included in a. The Ahmedabad …

Duty Cost Material Stat Excise Cylinder No Excise Duty

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Review: Sanatan by Sharankumar Limbale

CSDS-Lokniti Survey: BJP builds a broad caste coalition, garnering Maratha and OBC votes - The Hindu

A Precursory Look at Community-wise Voting in Maharashtra and Jharkhand

Sameer Wankhede seeks CBI probe against Nawab Malik

Atrocities case: IRS officer Wankhede moves HC seeking independent probe against Nawab Malik

Maharashtra Elections: Disputed Villages Push for Land Rights

How to cook chicken liver from Marathwada’s Dalit kitchens

BJP's Dalit Outreach in Maharashtra: A Strategy for Consolidation

Bhima Koregaon case timeline

Women block Army contingent carrying weapons seized from armed group in Manipur

Congress has an edge over its opponents in Peddapalli

BR Ambedkar Jayanti 2024: 10 timeless quotes by the architect of India's Constitution

Governments urged to take control of renewable rollout to combat community distrust

No Service Tax Payable On Service Of Laying Of Pipeline For Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage Board: CESTAT

Pollution Control Services Of Factory Are Input Services, Eligible For Cenvat Credit: CESTAT

Uttarakhand: 7 feared dead as car buries under debris triggered by landslide

Farmers are bracing for another drought. Here's what it might mean for food prices

Exemption Claim On Service Of Rent-A-Cab Provided In SEZ To Be Supported By Invoices: CESTAT

CISF Lacked Clarity About Leviability Of Service Tax On The Security Services; CESTAT Quashes Penalty

RS passes four Bills, including data protection Bill, in Opposition’s absence

Calling out injustice: review of Aakash Singh Rathore’s ‘Becoming Babasaheb’

Bleeding blue in Nanded | Where celebrating Ambedkar’s birthday is a crime

Department Should Not Have Invoked The Extended Time Period For Issuance Of Second Show Cause Notice Demanding Service Tax: CESTAT

No Excise Duty Payable On Amortization Cost Of The Cylinder: CESTAT