THANJAVUR: Total of 14 persons were booked for assaulting Dalit youth near Papanasam over a tussle during the polling day. According to police, a group of Dalit youth of Veerancherry questioned the non-inclusion of members of their community in the work being carried out at a booth set up by DMK alliance parties beyond 200 […]
CUDDALORE: On the day the Lok Sabha polls ended in Tamil Nadu, there was tension in a village near Chidambaram after a 50-member gang of Vanniyars unleashed violence on a dalit hamlet on Thursday night. The attack came in the wake of a skirmish that broke out between members of the communities while canvassing for […]
Jalandhar: Congress today dubbed BJP leader Narendra Modi as “anti-Dalit”, citing a quote from a book written by him in 2007 in which he purportedly says Valmiki community do manual scavenging not for living but to attain “spiritual experience”. “Narendra Modi thinks that scavenging is a way to attain spiritual enlightenment as he mentioned in […]
Faizabad : Cautioning Dalit voters against getting carried away by “hype” created by BJP around Narendra Modi, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today asked them to vote for her party unitedly and make her the Prime Minister. Speaking at a rally in Faizabad, Mayawati asked Dalits to ensure that their votes were “not divided”. She […]
New Delhi: Children from Dalit, tribal and Muslim communities are being blatantly discriminated against in schools in rural areas in several states of the country, says a shocking report released by an international rights group on Tuesday. The discrimination, the Human Rights Watch report titled ‘They Say We’re Dirty’ says, includes “teachers asking Dalit children […]
New Delhi: It talked about a government primary school in Bihar’s Patna district where caste discrimination has led to irregular attendance among Dalit students. “I don’t go to school when my clothes are dirty. It happens once or twice a week. The teachers say you wear dirty clothes, go sit in the back,” the report cited […]
Giridih Superintendent of Police Kranti Kumar Gadhesi had ordered an enquiry into the incident Giridih: Dalit villagers were attacked lathis, with bricks and stones thrown at them by upper-caste Bhumihars when they tried to cast their vote in villages in Gardih village in Jamua block in Giridih. Jamua which falls in Koderma constituency was scheduled […]
A 25 year old Dalit man was Thursday murdered allegedly by the family of the girl he was having an affair with in Wajidpur village under Mau Aima police station area here Allahabad: The girl belonged to Yadav community while the victim was from Pasi community, the police said. Police said they got a call […]
Ghaziabad: I want to appeal to my Muslims brothers not to vote for Congress. Supporting Congress will be a waste of your vote as the party’s condition has deteriorated not only in Uttar Pradesh but across the country,” Mayawati said at a BSP rally at Kavi Nagar’s Ramlila Ground in Ghaziabad. “Muslims should also not […]
Bhubaneswar: A 21-year-old student of Samanta Chandra Sekhar (SCS) Autonomous College, Puri on Saturday submitted a petition to the Chief Secretary of Odisha, the Principal Secretary of the Higher Education department and the Secretary of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) department accusing caste based discrimination against his department head. The victim Dinesh Kumar […]
