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OBC outfit ends hunger strike in Nagpur; protests continue in other parts

India, Sept. 5 -- Protesters led by the National OBC Mahamanch have withdrawn their chain hunger strike, started six days ago, in Nagpur after the state government agreed to 12 of their 14 demands on ... Read More


OBC group ends hunger strike after govt assurance

MUMBAI, Sept. 5 -- An organisation representing Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities in Nagpur ended its six-day-old protest on Thursday, after an assurance from the Maharashtra government that th... Read More


OBCs end hunger strike in Nagpur

MUMBAI, Sept. 5 -- Protesters led by the National OBC Mahamanch have withdrawn their chain hunger strike, started six days ago, in Nagpur after the state government agreed to 12 of their 14 demands on... Read More


State increases daily work hours from 9 to 10 for private sector

India, Sept. 4 -- The Maharashtra government on Wednesday approved the amendment of labour laws to increase the maximum daily working hours for private sector employees from the current nine hours to ... Read More


Cabinet sub-committee formed to placate OBCs

India, Sept. 4 -- With multiple Other Backward Classes (OBC) leaders across party lines taking a strong stand against the government resolution (GR) to expedite granting of Kunbi caste certificates to... Read More


Kunbi certificate a passport to wonders For many Marathas

MUMBAI, Sept. 4 -- Forty-seven-year-old Brahmanand Sirsat from Umara village in Nanded was overjoyed to share that his son Ruturaj Sirsat had got admission into the MBBS course at Mumbai's Nair Hospit... Read More


Kunbi certificate a passport to wonders For many Marathas

MUMBAI, Sept. 4 -- Forty-seven-year-old Brahmanand Sirsat from Umara village in Nanded was overjoyed to share that his son Ruturaj Sirsat had got admission into the MBBS course at Mumbai's Nair Hospit... Read More


State increases daily work hours from 9 to 10 for pvt sector

Mumbai, Sept. 4 -- The state government on Wednesday approved the amendment of labour laws to increase the maximum daily working hours for private sector employees from the current nine hours to 10, p... Read More


For many Marathas, the Kunbi certificate has been a passport to unimagined wonders

MUMBAI, Sept. 3 -- Forty-seven-year-old Brahmanand Sirsat from Umara village in Nanded was overjoyed to share that his son Ruturaj Sirsat had got admission into the MBBS course at Mumbai's Nair Hospit... Read More


Bhujbal announces statewide OBC agitation from Tue

MUMBAI, Sept. 2 -- As the indefinite hunger strike of Manoj Jarange-Patil entered its fifth day on Tuesday, the Other Backward Classes (OBC), whose quota the Maratha activist wants to eat into, declar... Read More