Do we really respect Dr Ambedkar or is it mere lip service?
Mumbai:It was the 100th day celebration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in power and everyone was trying to analyse his performance. My friends and I were also debating the social impact of the new government. While proving my argument, I quoted Dr BR Ambedkar on certain social issues. Without waiting for me to complete my […]
Half of school dropouts in K’taka are dalits
Bengaluru:Nearly half of the school dropouts in the primary section happen to be dalits. Figures show that as many as 1.38 lakh dalit children dropped out of school within two years of their enrolment as against a total of 2.9 lakh dropouts. In other words, 48% of dropouts are from dalit communities. This alarming revelation […]
Dalit family murder: complainant turns out to be suspect
PUNE:In a sensational turn to the murder of a three-member Dalit family in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district, the police on Thursday arrested none other than the complainant in connection with the gruesome killings, belying apprehensions that the crime was caste-motivated. Following the results of the polygraph and brain-mapping tests sanctioned by the District and Sessions court, […]
Ahmednagardalit killings: Family member says police delaying probe
Mumbai:Almost after one-and-a-half-month of the brutal murder of three members of a dalitfamily- Sanjay Jadhav, his wife Jayshree and their 20-year-old son Sunil – at Ahmednagar, there has been no breakthrough in the case. The elder brother of the deceased, DilipJadhav, accused the police of delaying the probe and said due to the investigation, no members […]
Amit Shah woos Delhi’s Dalits ahead of election
New Delhi:BJP chief Amit Shah Tuesday urged the city’s Dalit community to support the party and ensure its victory in the upcoming assembly polls. Speaking at the “Valmiki Milan Mahasammelan” at the Talkatora stadium here, Shah asked the crowd of over 1,000 to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by dialling a toll free number. […]
Muslim, tribal and dalit women demand a sub-quota within women’s reservation
New Delhi: Research fellows belonging to the scheduled caste, scheduled tribes and minority communities across the country are feeling let down alleging that the central government overlooked them from the recent fellowship hike that their counterparts from other categories received. The University Grant Commission (UGC) on Monday, December 1, issued a circular announcing the hike […]
Parties confine SC candidates to reserved seats
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 […]
Muslim, tribal and dalit women demand a sub-quota within women’s reservation
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 […]
Naxals appeal for ‘caste eradication organizations’ across state
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 […]
NCSC member calls for swift action on pending cases
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 […]
