Expect those behind 26/11 to meet day of reckoning: Hillary

Ahead of political engagements with the Indian leadership tomorrow, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today set the tone for the meetings when she described the grouping of al-Qaeda, Taliban and other terror outfits as a “syndicate of terrorism” and expressed hope that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks would meet their “day of reckoning”.

Terrorism and Pakistan, her comments reflected, will form a key part of her discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister S M Krishna tomorrow, among other issues.

Stressing that terrorism is a “threat to all”, including those who have provided havens to such elements, and every country should stand up to defeat the menace, Clinton, speaking at the ITC Green building in Gurgaon, said: “We are certainly watching and expecting that there will be justice and those who launched the horrific attacks in Mumbai will meet their day of reckoning.”

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To Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes add another Scheduled Castes, raise job quota over 50%: Ministry

The Ministry of Social Justice is piloting an amendment in the Constitution to add denotified tribes as a new beneficiary of reservation with the job quota ceiling raised beyond 50 percent — the limit fixed by the Supreme Court — to accommodate them.

In a Cabinet note to the Ministry of Home Affairs this month, the Ministry has asked it to consider the proposal of the National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes to provide reservation to them by adding a new Article 342A defining the tribes as a ‘Scheduled Community’.

“Once a denotified tribe is notified as a scheduled community, delete it from the list of scheduled tribe, scheduled castes or Other Backward Castes, as the case may be... Reserve 10 percent of Government jobs for DNTs even if the ceiling of 50 percent is exceeded,” the Ministry restates the recommendations while pushing the First Stage Proposals for Action.

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