The Supreme Court has upheld a Madras High Court ruling that conversion to Islam does not automatically qualify a person for Tamil Nadu's Backward Class Muslim quota based on former caste status.

The Tamil Nadu government will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Madras high court judgment quashing the 2024 government order on reservations for converted ...

A helicopter carrying six people, including five passengers and a pilot, crashed on Friday after it went missing in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district while flying from Badrinath towards Dehradun.The ...

The invalidation of Tamil Nadu’s order enabling persons converting to Islam from Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes to ...

Explained: Supreme Court rules converts cannot claim reservation benefits based on pre-conversion caste; affirms status tied ...

Following a Tahsildar's rejection of an application by Sameer Ahamed N., a Dalit convert to Islam, for a "Muslim Labbai" ...

SC rules person converting from Hinduism to Islam can't claim Backward Class (Muslim) quota on conversion alone ...

Conversion to Islam does not automatically grant Backward Class Muslim status in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court ruled, upholding a Madras High Court judgment. It said caste or community status before ...

The Allahabad High Court in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state has ordered the government to pay about 75,000 rupees (US$900) after noticing that police falsely accused five Muslims of converting a ...

Shahida Bibi, a Pakistani Christian girl, was only 11 years old when her mother left her father for a Muslim man and handed over her daughter to her new husband’s brother. “He basically kept her as a ...