Azhikkal: The activist alleged that the temple authorities intentionally excluded Dalit houses while carrying out a temple procession. A Dalit activist launched a hunger strike on Tuesday alleging that Dalits were excluded from a temple ritual in Azhikkal of Kannur. In the more than a century old ritual of Azhikkal Pampadi Aalinkeezhil temple called ‘Thiruvayudham Ezhunnallathu’, a […]
Rohtak: At a time when the Hisar administration claimed to have sorted out the recent dispute between Jats and Dalits in Mirchpur village, members of 35 communities on Tuesday threatened to launch a stir if the Dalits were issued arms licences. The matter was raised during a panchayat attended by every community members, except the Dalits. Jat youths and others […]
Tarn Taran: About 16 armed supporters of SAD leader Gurpreet Singh Babbu, former sarpanch of Palasaur village, allegedly shot a Dalit and injured his brother today. The victim too owed allegiance to the Akali Dal. He has been identified as Surjit Singh (35). His brother Jaswant Singh (37) sustained bullet injuries on the arm, stomach […]
Chennai: Amid allegations from activists that the 17-year-old Dalit girl who was found dead in a well on January 14 in Ariyalur, police officials on Sunday denied the gang rape theory, but added that they are waiting for the forensic reports. Unfortunately, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) remained mum as no suo moto cognisance […]
Kochi: Communists, Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims should join hands to counter attacks against the marginalised sections of society, said Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohith Vemula, the JNU student who committed suicide last year. Addressing a seminar on ‘Discrimination and Disparity in India’, at the 10th national conference of the DYFI here on Saturday, she deplored […]
Ariyalur: While everyone was busy fighting to save the Tamil tradition of bull-taming, not very far from the din in Chennai, a 17-year-old Dalit girl was being raped and dumped into a well to die in Ariyalur. Her decomposed body was discovered two weeks later by the Ariyalur police on January 14. According to the […]
By: Subodh Varma Dalit and adivasi organisations have protested against the inadequate allocation for welfare of these communities in the Budget for 2017-18. According to a detailed analysis of allocations under various heads across ministries done by the National Campaign for Dalit and Human Rights(NCDHR), there is a shortfall of Rs 44,454 crore in the allocations made for […]
Mirchpur: The 17-year-old was the first Dalit from the village to win the race, which had 35 participants, mostly upper castes from 10-15 villages nearby. Last December, Shiv Kumar won the 1600m race organised in the last week of every month at the Mirchpur government school in Narnaund of Hisar in Haryana. The 17-year-old was […]
Kurnool: Forced to write vocational exam by sitting on the floor under tree on the college premises. A few hundred girl students of the Kasireddy Venkata Reddy (KVR) Government junior college stood on one leg in protest in front of the college on the railway station road here after being forced to write the vocational […]
Gurugram: More than two dozen Dalit families in Mirchpur village in Hisar were allegedly forced to flee their homes on Tuesday afternoon after nine persons from their community were beaten up, allegedly by upper caste members. Four of the accused have been arrested. The incident comes nearly seven years after caste-based violence in the village […]
