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New Delhi: National Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe has asked vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim university to appear before it on August 9. The government does not want to leave any chance to please Dalit community in the election year as the decision of Aligarh Muslim University not allowing a reservation to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Classes may cost it dear.The commission is committed to provide reservation to Dalits in these institutions.

Now the commission will tighten its noose on Jamia Milia Islamia as well. Chairman of National Scheduled Caste Commission Ram Shankar Katheria said that he was committed to get reservation implemented in these institutions. He said that Aligarh Muslim University utilized over Rs 7000 crore in the past 10 years. If the institution is getting financial assistance from the government why can't it follow constitutional provisions to provide reservations to SCs and others.

New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Tuesday said Boeing was awarded the contract based on a wrong conclusion that the US plane maker was the lowest bidder (L-1) picking holes in a $2.1 billion naval aircraft deal inked in 2009,

A report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday revealed that the defence ministry enhanced the financial bid of Boeing’s competitor EADS CASA, Spain, by including the cost of 20 years of product support. It said the product support component was ignored while considering Boeing’s quote for eight P-8I submarine hunter planes, resulting in L-1 being determined wrongly.

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to check tampering of evidence, as well as collect evidence, till the CBI takes over the case of sexual abuse of girls of the shelter home — MaaVindhyavasiniMahila and Balika Sanrakshan Grih. The Special Task Force (STF) will assist SIT in collecting evidence.  Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh government late on Tuesday night recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged sex racket run by a shelter home in Deoria.

Addressing a press conference, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said a two-member committee, constituted by the state government to probe the working of the shelter home, submitted its report on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Former Assam chief minister and BJP ally in the Assam government Prafulla Kumar Mahanta has said the provisional National Register of Citizens (NRC) made public on July 30 was riddled with errors. Mahanta led a six-year agitation against illegal Bangladeshi migrants in the 1980s leading to the so-called Assam Accord.

It has left out many indigenous people, even tribals, he said.

He said the registry, a database of all Indians citizens in Assam, will not on its own resolve the state’s longstanding problem of illegal migrants.

“The NRC is to enumerate Indian citizens, not to identify or deal with foreigners, according to its legal provisions,” said Mahanta, a student leader in the 1980s,who went on to become India’s youngest chief minister riding a wave of popular support.