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Social media debate over UPSC rank holder allegedly misusing OBC quota

Poorva Chaudhary, whose sister posted a congratulations post for her which went viral and garnered millions of views, has now disabled her Instagram account.

Poorva Choudhary cleared UPSC CSE 2024 with a rank of 533.(Instagram/@poorva_choudhry)

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Updated on May 05, 2025 11:02 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

Jarange-Patil starts 7th hunger strike, seeks death for Beed sarpanch murderers

The activist ended his previous hunger strike, in September 2024, after nine days owing to ill-health and requests from supporters

cities

Updated on Jan 26, 2025 06:24 AM IST

ByFaisal Malik

Delhi HC reserves order on Puja Khedkar's pre arrest bail plea

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Published on Nov 28, 2024 02:42 PM IST

PTI |

Sharad Pawar calls for 75% reservation quota to include Marathas, others

Highlighting TN's 69% reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and backward classes since 1990, Pawar questioned why Maharashtra can't follow suit

Sharad Pawar made the comments while responding to a question from reporters in Sangli related to resolving the Maratha reservation row.

india news

Updated on Oct 05, 2024 09:30 AM IST

ByFaisal Malik

Simplify Kunbi caste certification for Marathas, recommends report

The third report of the Shinde committee said that the government had found 5.4 million documents related to Marathas which proved their Kunbi lineage

Maratha Kranti Thok Morcha workers are among those agitating for certification. (Photo by Raju Shinde/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

cities

Updated on Oct 01, 2024 09:45 AM IST

BySurendra P Gangan

Jarange-Patil calls off nine-day hunger strike

On Tuesday, members from his community, especially women, requested him to call off the agitation and not put his life under threat

cities

Updated on Sep 26, 2024 09:40 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Cong MP demands splitting of OBC quota for better caste representation in Gujarat

india news

Updated on Sep 25, 2024 09:09 AM IST

PTI |

Bandh hits life in 4 districts as state placates OBC, Maratha protestors

In Mumbai, chief minister Eknath Shinde holds meeting with a seven-member delegation from the Maratha community

CM Eknath Shinde and other leaders met a delegation of Marathas from Pune at Azad Maidan, where a sit-in protest was started on Saturday out of concern for Jarange-Patil’s deteriorating health. (Raju Shinde/HT Photo)

cities

Updated on Sep 23, 2024 08:59 AM IST

ByFaisal Malik

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil begins 6th indefinite hunger strike

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil begins his sixth indefinite hunger strike, demanding OBC quota reservation and nine other demands from the state

Jarange-Patil has earlier warned the government that he would field candidates for all 288 assembly seats in the state polls if his demands were not met.(ANI)

cities

Updated on Sep 17, 2024 08:45 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

‘CM Shinde is backing Maratha activist Jarange-Patil’

n the second phase of their agitation, they spoke to Surendra P Gangan at Bhagwangad, Ahmednagar, about their fight and the ruling government throwing its weight behind Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil’s agitation.

OBC activists Laxman Hake (right ) and Navnath Waghmare, started the seven-day Jan Aakrosh rally in tyhe Beed district on July 22. (Raju Shinde/HT Photo)

cities

Updated on Jul 25, 2024 07:34 AM IST

BySurendra P Gangan

On paper, Puja’s parents are separated; poll affidavit shows opposite

During a viral mock interview given to a private coaching institute during her civil services exam selection process, Puja had claimed that her parents are separated and her income is “zero”

As per the rules, only those whose parents’ income is under <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>8 lakh per annum fall in the category of OBC non-creamy layer for Union Public Selection Commission (UPSC) selection. (HT PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Jul 25, 2024 06:14 AM IST

ByShrinivas Deshpande

Fadnavis asks MVA leaders to clear stand on Maratha reservation

The deputy chief minister also asserted that his party will unmask MVA leaders on Maratha reservation

On joining hands with Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Fadnavis said, that in politics, one has to make compromises sometimes. (HT PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Jul 22, 2024 05:20 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

IAS officer Puja Khedkar breaks silence on fake certificate row

Trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar breaks silence on fake certificate row: ‘Proving guilty by…’

Probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar speaks to media persons in Washim.(ANI)

india news

Updated on Jul 15, 2024 06:53 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

IAS Puja Khedkar holds immovable property worth over ₹22 crore

Puja Khedkar is under scrutiny for controversial selection, owns assets worth ₹22 crore, annual income of ₹42 lakh, facing quota violation allegations.

Probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar owns property worth <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>22 crore. (SOURCED)

india news

Updated on Jul 12, 2024 04:51 AM IST

ByNadeem Inamdar

PMO seeks report on Puja Khedkar from Pune collector

After being shunted from Pune to Washim for high-handedness, reports of alleged misuse of OBC, PWBD categories surface

Puja’s transfer to Washim on Monday evening came barely two weeks after Pune district collector Suhas Diwase’s communication to additional chief secretary Nitin Gadre requesting the latter to consider posting the junior officer in another district to avoid administrative complications (HT FILE PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Jul 11, 2024 07:18 AM IST

ByYogesh Joshi, Nadeem Inamdar, Yogesh Naik

OBC activists' fast against Maratha quota enters Day 7; doctors flag health risk

Laxman Hake and Navnath Waghmare have been on a hunger strike protesting a Maharashtra govt draft notification that seeks to include Marathas in the OBC quota

india news

Updated on Jun 19, 2024 05:15 PM IST

PTI |

Activist Jarange says OBC leaders should focus on ST quota for Dhangars

The activist claimed that the Maratha community would support the Dhangar community's fight for ST status and that the OBC leaders should support Marathas.

india news

Published on Jun 17, 2024 04:29 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

PM reacts to SC's VVPAT verdict, claims Cong has Muslim quota plan in Bihar

PM Modi claimed that the Opposition was trying to get rid of EVMs.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi(PTI file photo)

india news

Updated on Apr 26, 2024 02:44 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Muslim quota part of agenda to push country towards Islamisation: Adityanath

india news

Published on Apr 25, 2024 06:53 PM IST

PTI |

Response to Jarange-Patil’s call for rasta roko ‘lukewarm’

Protestors in Maharashtra demand Maratha reservation within OBC quota, leading to 'rasta roko' agitation. Activist plans meeting to decide next steps.

cities

Updated on Feb 25, 2024 07:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Stop issuing Kunbi certificates to Marathas, NCP minister tells Maharashtra govt

Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s sharp remarks on the Maratha reservation issue came hours after the state backward commission submitted its report

Chhagan Bhujbal said reservation for the Marathas should be separate from the OBCs (HT Photo/Satish Bate)

cities

Published on Feb 16, 2024 06:09 PM IST

BySaurabha Kulshreshtha

Shinde managed to pacify Marathas for now, but will it lead to bigger problems?

CM Eknath Shinde managed to pacify Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, and the BJP, the main political player in the state, is playing a balancing act

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde with Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil at the protest venue after the state government accepted the latter's demands.(PTI)

cities

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 06:45 PM IST

ByShailesh Gaikwad

Maratha activist Jarange-Patil says Maharashtra government accepts demands

Manoj Jarange-Patil started his hunger strike from Friday morning. The activist has stopped taking meals from 11 in the morning and is surviving only on water.

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange Patil and his supporters during their march for reservation, in Navi Mumbai, Friday.(PTI)

india news

Published on Jan 26, 2024 06:21 PM IST

ByFaisal Malik

Jarange-Patil continues his march towards Mumbai, reaches Ahmednagar on second day

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, advocating for Maratha community reservation from the OBC quota, continues his march to Mumbai for the second day. Accompanied by a substantial crowd, the march entered Ahmednagar district on Sunday, planning a night halt near Karanji Ghat

cities

Updated on Jan 22, 2024 07:18 AM IST

ByFaisal Malik

Tatkare backs Bhujbal on OBC quota

NCP state president Sunil Tatkare supports Chagan Bhujbal's stand on Maratha reservation, says it shouldn't affect OBC quota. Slams Prithviraj Chavan for damaging NCP.

cities

Updated on Nov 29, 2023 06:58 AM IST

BySaurabha Kulshreshtha

Fadnavis asks leaders not to disturb Maha’s social fabric over quota issue

A recent meeting of the ruling alliance saw a war of words after CM Shinde chastised his ministerial colleagues for speaking in different voices on the issue.

Fadnavis said government has received a report submitted by a four-member committee on lapses at Sassoon Hospital from where drug haul accused Lalit Patil escaped last month and was re-arrested. (HT PHOTO)

cities

Updated on Nov 10, 2023 04:41 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Bhujbal jibes at own govt for appeasing Marathas, alleges conspiracy to end OBC reservation

Blaming the top leadership of his own government for taking the “anti-OBC decision”, the minister sarcastically asked how so many ancestral records had become available all of a sudden. “They are giving Marathas a backdoor entry to the OBC quota,” he alleged, asking OBCs to raise their voice against it

Bhujbal opposed most of the demands made by Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil such as blanket reservation to all Marathas and withdrawal of police cases against violent protestors. (Hindustan Times)

cities

Updated on Nov 07, 2023 07:36 AM IST

ByFaisal Malik

When Mandal 2.0 gets to confront Hindutva

Indian politics have changed for the Mandal-Kamandal binary to play out as it did in the past. The fault line today is unequal economic growth

The implementation of Mandal Commission recommendations was among the most polarising moments in post-independent India. (HT)

opinion

Published on Oct 07, 2023 10:00 PM IST

ByChanakya

Missing in the caste survey

The broad numbers reveal the big picture in Bihar. But data about subcastes are necessary to understand intra-group inequalities

JD(U) supporters celebrate after the Bihar government released the caste survey report, in Patna on Monday. (ANI)

editorials

Published on Oct 04, 2023 10:40 PM IST

ByHT Editorial

Many narratives of social justice politics

Bihar caste survey shows OBCs make up 63% of the population, impacting politics and governance. OBC mobilisation is expected to increase.

opinion

Published on Oct 03, 2023 03:13 PM IST

ByBadri Narayan

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Poorva Chaudhary, whose sister posted a congratulations post for her which went viral and garnered millions of views, has now disabled her Instagram account.

The activist ended his previous hunger strike, in September 2024, after nine days owing to ill-health and requests from supporters

Delhi HC reserves order on Puja Khedkar's pre arrest bail plea

Highlighting TN's 69% reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and backward classes since 1990, Pawar questioned why Maharashtra can't follow suit

The third report of the Shinde committee said that the government had found 5.4 million documents related to Marathas which proved their Kunbi lineage

On Tuesday, members from his community, especially women, requested him to call off the agitation and not put his life under threat

Cong MP demands splitting of OBC quota for better caste representation in Gujarat

In Mumbai, chief minister Eknath Shinde holds meeting with a seven-member delegation from the Maratha community

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil begins his sixth indefinite hunger strike, demanding OBC quota reservation and nine other demands from the state

n the second phase of their agitation, they spoke to Surendra P Gangan at Bhagwangad, Ahmednagar, about their fight and the ruling government throwing its weight behind Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil’s agitation.

During a viral mock interview given to a private coaching institute during her civil services exam selection process, Puja had claimed that her parents are separated and her income is “zero”

The deputy chief minister also asserted that his party will unmask MVA leaders on Maratha reservation

Trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar breaks silence on fake certificate row: ‘Proving guilty by…’

Puja Khedkar is under scrutiny for controversial selection, owns assets worth ₹22 crore, annual income of ₹42 lakh, facing quota violation allegations.

After being shunted from Pune to Washim for high-handedness, reports of alleged misuse of OBC, PWBD categories surface

Laxman Hake and Navnath Waghmare have been on a hunger strike protesting a Maharashtra govt draft notification that seeks to include Marathas in the OBC quota

The activist claimed that the Maratha community would support the Dhangar community's fight for ST status and that the OBC leaders should support Marathas.

PM Modi claimed that the Opposition was trying to get rid of EVMs.

Muslim quota part of agenda to push country towards Islamisation: Adityanath

Protestors in Maharashtra demand Maratha reservation within OBC quota, leading to 'rasta roko' agitation. Activist plans meeting to decide next steps.

Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s sharp remarks on the Maratha reservation issue came hours after the state backward commission submitted its report

CM Eknath Shinde managed to pacify Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, and the BJP, the main political player in the state, is playing a balancing act

Manoj Jarange-Patil started his hunger strike from Friday morning. The activist has stopped taking meals from 11 in the morning and is surviving only on water.

Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, advocating for Maratha community reservation from the OBC quota, continues his march to Mumbai for the second day. Accompanied by a substantial crowd, the march entered Ahmednagar district on Sunday, planning a night halt near Karanji Ghat

NCP state president Sunil Tatkare supports Chagan Bhujbal's stand on Maratha reservation, says it shouldn't affect OBC quota. Slams Prithviraj Chavan for damaging NCP.

A recent meeting of the ruling alliance saw a war of words after CM Shinde chastised his ministerial colleagues for speaking in different voices on the issue.

Indian politics have changed for the Mandal-Kamandal binary to play out as it did in the past. The fault line today is unequal economic growth

The broad numbers reveal the big picture in Bihar. But data about subcastes are necessary to understand intra-group inequalities

Bihar caste survey shows OBCs make up 63% of the population, impacting politics and governance. OBC mobilisation is expected to increase.

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