NEW DELHI: Political parties continue to limit the participation of tribal and Dalit leaders to reserved constituencies only. Between the Congress and the BJP, the two major national parties gave ticket to only three Scheduled Caste candidates in the ‘general’ category in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, The Hindu’s analysis of data shows. While only SCs and […]
Coimbatore: Putting an end to saffronization of education and history; justice and rehabilitation of riot victims; enactment of laws to punish acid attack culprits; stopping forceful sterilization of women and immediate stopping of false propaganda of ‘Love Jihad’ are among the eight resolutions passed at the ‘Awakening’, the first national conference of the National Women’s […]
Nagpur: The banned Communist party of India (Maoist) has called for setting up of ‘caste eradication organizations’ across state in the backdrop of killings of three of a Dalit family in Javkheda village in Patharditaluka of Ahmednagar district last month. The rebel outfit, comparing the brutality of the incident with that of Khairlanji murders, has […]
GUNTUR: National Commission for Scheduled Castes member P.M. Kamalamma on Wednesday expressed concern that efforts were on to undermine the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Stating that there were large number of pending cases filed under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, the member directed the […]
KARNATAKA:Members of the Bharatiya Christian Seva Dal and other outfits staged a dharna in front of the Clock Tower here on Wednesday over the alleged attack on Jacinta Fernandes by Project Director of Nirmiti Kendra Arun Kumar on November 10. Hilda Rodrigues, retired professor, said the increasing attacks on women were a matter of concern. […]
Pune: With Dalit groups in Maharashtra seething over alleged police inaction in the unsolved triple murder of a Dalit family in Ahmednagar district, the District and Sessions court on Monday gave the green signal for polygraph tests on five witnesses. “We had submitted an application to the court to conduct the tests as there was […]
VIJAYAWADA: Dalita Hakkula Porata Samithi (DHPS), AP Vyvasaya Karmika Sangham and AP Girijana Samakhya have jointly staged a satyagraha near the Sub-Collector’s office here on Monday, demanding that the government prepare guidelines for effective implementation of the SC,ST Sub Plan. Later, they submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu through Krishna Collector M. […]
BHILWARA:At a time when India’s first attempt to Mars remained successful, 60 families, mostly dalits, have abandoned their native village Bhalia under Mandar block in Bhilwara district because their tantrik said the deity they worship was “unhappy” and she has unleashed her “wrath” on them. Believe it or not, the tantrik, according to the villagers, […]
Mumbai: Some localities of Thane came under tension on Saturday as dalits staged violent protests allegedly due to circulation of a derogatory image of Dr B R Ambedkar on a social networking site Facebook and other mobile phone applications. Republican Party of India (RPI) activists led by local leaders took to streets and staged ‘road […]
Guntur: The difficulties being faced by the government in collecting land to build the capital are mounting with each passing day. The Dalit Bahujan Front on Friday lodged a complaint against the land pooling proposal with the National SC, ST Commission and National Human Rights Commission. DBF is further planning to knock the doors of […]
