Almost 100 years ago, around 3,000 Dalits, or “untouchables”, dared to drink from a public water tank in Mahad, Maharashtra,…
In a recent order, the Delhi High Court has directed the city government and civic authorities to ensure compliance with…
On Wednesday, Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge engaged in a war of words with BJP national General Secretary B L Santhosh…
At its Global Just Transition Dialogue earlier this year, the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST), a think-tank,…
Source: PTI The California Senate has overwhelmingly passed a legislation seeking to explicitly ban caste discrimination, in a historic move…
Seattle became the first city in the U.S. to outlaw caste-based discrimination against immigrants from stigmatized groups in South Asia’s…
Seema and her husband did quite well when they first opened a samosa stall in the local market of a…
A group of locals allegedly told a 16-year-old Dalit girl not to attend school since other girls were also not…
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday (October 8) paid a surprise visit to a Dalit locality in Lucknow and…
BSP president Mayawati on Friday said it will be many years before she needs to name her successor but when…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming he will be "thrown" out of power by…
After leading a protest march in Kolkata on Saturday against what has come to be known as the "Hathras horror",…
About 2,000 academics from top institutions in India and abroad have signed petitions demanding federal authorities stop targeting people critical…
Over 270 families belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) Chakkiliyan community in the Vattavada panchayat in the interior Idukki district…
Around 40 families belonging to the Dalit community in Kantio Kateni village of Odisha's Dhenkanal district were allegedly socially boycotted…
The body of a Dalit (formerly referred to as "untouchables") woman was taken off a funeral pyre by a group…
A Dalit youth had his head tonsured and was beaten up, allegedly by police, in the East Godavari district of…
courtesy: The Wire https://thewire.in/rights/anand-teltumbde-birthday-letter by Suraj Yengde, Balmurli Natrajan, Meena Kandasamy, Sangeeta Kamat and Biju Mathew Dear Anand, The din…
The Centre and states need to step up to clamp down on rising atrocities against Dalits amid the Covid-19 pandemic,…
California regulators sued Cisco Systems Inc on Tuesday, accusing it of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to…
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (courtesy The Print) The Covid-19 affected world is undergoing what can be called a “colour revolution”. The Black…
Spurred on by the anti-racism protests in the United States, Dalits (a marginalised community once referred to as "untouchables") have…
In a grim reminder of the 2016 Una flogging incident, three oppressed caste men were tied up, beaten, forcefully tonsured…
A teenaged Dalit boy was shot dead in an Uttar Pradesh village on Saturday night, five days after he had…
by D Samarender Reddy | courtesy: Telangana Today Mobs roaming the streets and creating mayhem. Widespread rioting. Police cars and…
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