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Pasmanda Muslims quota: SC adjourns plea by 4 weeks

Supreme Court adjourns plea on quota for Pasmanda Muslims by 4 weeks

February 24, 2026 4:02 am

Taking up the plea, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymala Bagchi asked senior advocate Anjana Prakash, who appeared for the petitioner Mohd Waseem Saifi, “Ultimately what are you asking for? You want us to legislate?”

Pasmanda Muslims have been the subject of several BJP outreach initiatives, from sammelans and sneh yatras to meetings with intellectuals. (File Photo)

As BJP prepares for UP review, one big question: Why didn’t Pasmanda Muslims vote for it?

June 17, 2024 7:39 am

Pasmandas, who account for 80% of the minority community’s population in UP, have been at the centre of the BJP’s outreach since 2022 but the party’s efforts did not bear fruit in the Lok Sabha polls.

Almost all victims of mob lynching, 'bulldozer culture' are Pasmanda Muslims, says report

February 28, 2024 2:20 am

All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz draws on Bihar caste survey to underline backwardness in community, seeks laws for protection; founder-MP Ali Anwar Ansari questions Oppn “silence”

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Kevin Pietersen on the left and Lalit Modi on the right. (FILE photo)

Lalit Modi’s 6 reasons why The Hundred will never match IPL ‘in this lifetime’

April 19, 2026 11:16 IST

Lalit Modi was responding to Kevin Pietersen's claim that The Hundred “won't die in 3 years’ time, it'll become a T20 competition within three years”.

IPL 2026: Seen in the SRH win song video, singing enthusiastically is their spin coach Muttiah Muralitharan, though the most soprano notes in the complicated rendition is Ishan Kishan. (CREIMAS)

What is the SRH team song, with origins in Melbourne, all about?

April 19, 2026 11:15 IST

The 2026 season has seen the Hyderabad franchise repurpose the Richmond Australian rules Footie song, by changing the lyrics, to be sung after wins, latest rendition after the arch rival South-side derby with CSK.

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh announce second pregnancy

Updated: April 19, 2026 11:15 IST

Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone shared the news with a cryptic post on Instagram, featuring a picture of their daughter, Dua Padukone Singh, holding a positive pregnancy test.

OpenAI sees executive departures amid enterprise pivot, pullback from ‘side quests’

April 19, 2026 11:14 IST

The high-level exits follow OpenAI’s decision to end its ‘side quests’, including customer-facing efforts such as AI video generator Sora and OpenAI for Science.

Where the song stayed: Urdu, memory, and Rajendra Phupaji’s lasting voice

April 19, 2026 11:08 IST

I did not inherit this ghazal as a song. I inherited it as a season—one that arrived without announcement, settled without permission, and stayed without ever asking to be remembered.

3-year-old raped in Gurgaon: Fourth arrest in case, one of the domestic help’s brother-in-law now prime accused

Updated: April 19, 2026 11:08 IST

Last month, another domestic helper and her husband were also arrested in the case. At the time, police had alleged that the husband sexually assaulted the girl after the two domestic helpers brought her to the park. While one of the helpers worked at the child’s home, the other was employed in a neighbouring household.