Tiruchi: Alleging that atrocities against Dalits were on the rise in the State, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader Thol. Thirumavalavan on Friday urged the State government to probe the conspiracy behind the attacks. In the last six to seven months, around 28 members of Dalit community were murdered in various parts of the State, Mr. […]
Saharanpur: The office-bearers of the Bhim Army gheraoed the office of the district magistrate alleging that the outfit’s founder Chandrasekhar was assaulted inside a jail. They also submitted a memorandum to administrative officials on Thursday and demanded necessary action and an unbiased investigation into their charges. The mother of Bhim Army’s district unit president Kamal Walia […]
Barabanki: As Ram Nath Kovind, India’s second Dalit President after KR Narayanan, took oath on Tuesday, there was hardly a ripple in Mubarakpur — a Dalit majority village just 30 km from Lucknow and 200 km from the Presidents’ hometown in Kanpur Dehat. There is no consensus about whether a Dalit taking over the country’s […]
Madurai: A group of Dalits belonging to Arunthathiyar community from Nathapatti in Kovilangulam panchayat here petitioned Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao on Monday alleging that they have been denied burial rights on a land along the roadside, which was traditionally being used by the community for burial and cremation. According to the petitioners, the issue […]
Hyderabad: Women who have little claim over capital will further lose their stake in the economy with the implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), women’s groups, especially those representing traditionally marginalised sections, including Dalits and Adivasis, vouched. On the day that global leaders commenced discussion on RCEP, a Free Trade Agreement to be […]
Chinnaraj Balan spent three years in bondage at a brick kiln in Tamil Nadu, working endlessly to repay a loan of just Rs 5,000. The hut sits in the middle of a government office in southern India. Small, with smudged walls, it has tin sheets for a roof and a tiny window that barely lets […]
Chandigarh: In an apparent case of honour killing, a 25-year-old youth, who was stabbed six times in Hisar town of Haryana on Saturday, succumbed to injuries on Wednesday. Shyam Arora, a youth from Punjabi community, had run away from home to marry a Dalit girl, Sapna, against the wishes of both families on January 31, […]
Madurai: An attempt by around 50 Dalit families from Kuravakudi near Usilampatti to assert their right over more than one acre of land, for which pattas were issued to them in 1998, was thwarted by few caste Hindus claiming to be the land owners, who on Sunday allegedly demolished and burnt the makeshift huts erected […]
Hassan: Exactly a month after Bharatiya Janata Party State president B.S. Yeddyurappa had breakfast in a Dalit’s colony at Tattekere near here, purportedly to drive home a message against the practice of untouchability, the village is in news for “upper” caste people allegedly stopping Dalits from offering prayers to a deity. Three Dalits were allegedly […]
Kollam: All India Youth Federation (AIYF) leader Kanhaiya Kumar has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress fielding Dalit candidates for the Presidential elections is being seen by Dalits across the country as nothing but tokenism. Talking to The Hindu here on Sunday, he said that such tokenism had been practised by […]
