HUBLI: The three-month long cold war between dalits and upper castes took to a fiery turn in Marakumbi village of Koppal district on Friday night, when four huts belonging to dalits were set ablaze. Koppal police arrested 52 people and registered cases against 96 persons. Tension was sparked after a few upper caste men quarrelled […]
Lucknow: Following a diktat of the upper caste people, at least 60 primary level Dalit students of Nuttuwa hamlet of Dadraul village in Shahjehanpur district have stopped going school. Nutt community villagers alleged that the people of the feudal class had been opposing their move of sending their children to school for the last two […]
Chandigarh: Cases of atrocities against Dalits are on the rise in Punjab. A Dalit youth was recently abducted and thrashed by three men who also bundled him inside a dog’s cage for failing to return the labour wages that his elder brother had taken in advance. The incident took place on August 24 at Bagiyadi […]
LUCKNOW: Seventy years old Raja Ram Gautam, a dalit farmer, stares at the ground blankly. Someone has just told him that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) headed by Mayawati will not contest the byelections scheduled next month. An ardent follower of Mayawati, Gautam, has been voting for the BSP throughout. The absence of BSP, therefore, has […]
BAJURA: Bajura has the same number of taps as castes. One tap for each caste, though the source of water is the same. People belonging to Kunwar, Thapa, Kumal and Luwar castes reside in Pipalgaun of Jayabageshwori-1 together. Kunwar and Thapa, the Chhetris by classification, use one tap while Kumal and Luwar, the Dalits, use […]
Chennai: Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in Tamil Nadu has released Engineering admission statistics community wise over the past few years which reveals that SCs are getting more inclined towards Engineering stream with exponential growth every year where as Muslims figures display steady admission rate – nor significantly increasing nor declining. TCN studied Muslims and […]
Patna: The main accused in the massacre of 10 Dalits in Haibuspur in Bihar in 1997 was Friday arrested in Patna district, police said. Sardar Lakshman Singh was arrested from his ancestral village Kab when he was on a visit, Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said. Police said Singh evaded arrest for 17 […]
India’s several religious minorities weep alone when they are in pain. So to do the Dalits and the Indigenous people, called Tribals or Adivasis. There are a few vibrant human rights groups, who organize fact-finding missions, go to the media and demonstrate before parliament. But there has seldom been a national outrage, cutting across ethnicities, […]
Phagwara: Agitated over delay in arrest of four persons accused of raping a 22-year-old dalit woman at a factory, members of a dalit organization on Saturday tried to block the National Highway 1, forcing police to use mild force against them. Activists of Sri Guru Ravi Das Sena Punjab gathered at the local main Sabzimandi on […]
SIVAGANGA: A Dalit woman and her daughter were allegedly attacked by a group of people after the mother questioned about eve-teasing of her daughter, a student of a private teacher training institute, while she was returning home to Indira Nagar Colony in Maravamangalam police limits. B.Surya, brother of the girl, studying Plus One in a […]
