Delhi assembly condemns attack on AAP Dalit councillor during joint MCD session
New Delhi: The Delhi assembly on Thursday passed a resolution condemning the attack on an AAP Dalit councillor at a joint session of the three municipal corporations in the city. Rakesh Kumar, councillor from ward 82 in Old Delhi, was seen on video being assaulted by BJP councillors during the joint session held at the […]
Lalu lashes out at Centre on quota issue
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday blamed the Central government for scrapping the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Class (OBC) professors and associate professors in Central universities and said he would launch a country-wide protest to expose the BJP-led government on the issue. The BJP rebutted Lalu’s charge and said […]
22-yr-old ‘killed for honour’ in Ghaziabad, police hunt for missing girl
Ghaziabad: In a case of alleged honour killing, a 22-year-old tailor from Rajasthan who eloped with an upper caste girl was murdered by her family last month. The body of the man was found near an under-construction building at Vijay Nagar in Ghaziabad on May 3. The tailor, Vishal, was abducted on May 2 from […]
A young Punjabi dalit singer spreading the message of equality in India
Jalandhar: 18-year-old Gurkanwal Bharti, aka Ginni Mahi, from in Jalandhar, Punjab, has thousands of fans on YouTube and Facebook.They do not follow her because she is young and sings hip-hop.But are genuine fans of Gurkanwal’s Punjabi folk musical performances. “God bless you” to “Jai Bhim,” writes an admirer. Her songs describe the virtues of Dr […]
Annual auction of village land: Dalit organisation to hold mega dharna at Sangrur today
Sangrur: The Zameen Prapati Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC), a body formed by Dalits, is all set to organise state-level dharnas on June 7 seeking one-third of panchayati land meant for farming at affordable prices. The land is annually auctioned to Dalits but for the past two years, trouble has been brewing in Sangrur villages with Dalits […]
CID team at Tarapith after rape and murder of minor dalit girl
Suri: A CID team from Kolkata today reached the temple town of Tarapith in Birbhum district to probe the alleged rape and murder of a minor dalit girl. The six member team, headed by Special Superintendent of Police, CID, Chirantan Nag, met the girl’s parents and the local police. Nag later told newsmen that the […]
Amit Shah does a RaGa, dines in Dalit home.
New Delhi: As Dalits are key to the poll outcome in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is going all out to woo the community. After taking a dip during the Kumbh Mela with Dalit sants, BJP chief Amit Shah had a meal with a Dalit family in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Shah, […]
ED grills Sarathi associate over Dalit land dealings
Bhubaneswar: A close associate of arrested Godman Sarathi Baba alias Santosh Raul was interrogated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the second time on Saturday. Sushant Mallik appeared for the second time before the ED. An interrogation over the land dealings belonging to Dalits is underway, said sources. ED for the last six days is busy […]
Teacher held for sexually abusing Dalit boy
Paramakudi: The All Women Police here have detained a schoolteacher under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, after he allegedly sexually abused a 12-year-old Dalit boy. The police said that the 40-year-old teacher, working in a private school in Paramakudi, picked up the boy, a class VII student of the local […]
NCSC visits family of murdered Dalit girl
Coimbatore: A three-member committee from the National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC) visited the family of Dalit girl Parimala (18), a diploma student from Kallapalayam near Sulur, Coimbatore district, who was reportedly murdered by her lover and his two friends at Dindigul in the first week of May. The girl, a second year diploma student, […]
