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Dalits in Tamil Nadu continue to pay with their lives for marrying outside their caste while parties look the other way

Dalits in Tamil Nadu continue to pay with their lives for marrying outside their caste while parties look the other way

Tamil Nadu: Mariamma last spoke to her son P Muthukumar around 5 pm on November 13, 2014. It was just before he left with a friend to meet his girlfriend in response to a call from her. The 23-year-old, a chemistry postgraduate and the first Dalit youth in their neighbourhood in Palani in southern Tamil […]

Leading dalit and human rights activist call for hyderabad varsity vc’s suspension, criminal investigation into the police action.

Leading dalit and human rights activist call for hyderabad varsity vc’s suspension, criminal investigation into the police action.

New Delhi: In another damning statement against police action and the administrative role at Hyderabad Central University, the report of an independent fact-finding team said, “Violent attack by police and forceful detention of students was used to suppress the protests at Hyderabad Central University”. Put together by leading Dalit and human rights activists from across […]

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Rohith Suicide Awakened People Across The Nation

Rohith Suicide Awakened People Across The Nation

Hyderabad: Retired Judge Of Madras High Court K. Chandru Said The City Of Hyderabad Has Become A Symbol Of Hope For Democracy And Freedom Of Thought And Expression Subsequent To Dalit Scholar Rohith Vemula’s Suicide. The Death Has Awakened Many People In The Entire Country For The First Time To The Values Of Liberty, Equality […]

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Demand for reservation to Dalits in private sector intensifies

Demand for reservation to Dalits in private sector intensifies

Vijayawada: Demanding reservation for SCs and STs in private sector, various backward class organisations took out a massive rally from Tummalapalli Kalashektram to Alankar Centre here on Thursday. Leaders from 13 districts of the State participated in the rally and raised slogans against the BJP-TDP combine for their inefficiency in formulating proper guidelines for the implementation […]

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No bail for 27 HCU students and 2 profs till Monday

No bail for 27 HCU students and 2 profs till Monday

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad police have jailed 27 students and two faculty members of Hyderabad University till Monday after a delay in producing them before a magistrate meant that their bail pleas could not be heard. The students and faculty had been arrested on Tuesday and charged under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, […]

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Shocking video of two naked ‘Dalit women’ being thrashed by ‘upper caste’ women goes viral

Shocking video of two naked ‘Dalit women’ being thrashed by ‘upper caste’ women goes viral

New Delhi: A shocking video of two ‘Dalit women’ being subjected to merciless thrashing and public humiliation allegedly women from upper caste has gone viral on social media platforms. The video is so graphic in nature that we at jantakareporter.com have decided not to broadcast here because of poor taste and decency issue. In the two naked […]

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UP: 35 Dalit Houses Allegedly Torched By Gram Pradhan In ‘Revenge’

UP: 35 Dalit Houses Allegedly Torched By Gram Pradhan In ‘Revenge’

Sitapur: Two children have died in a horrific incident when several houses of a Dalit colony were allegedly set ablaze by the Gram Pradhan in Daheliya Patti village of Sitapur, Uttar pradesh. The incident occurred on Monday in which around 35 Dalit houses were set on fire. According to the victims, Kamlesh Verma wanted Dalits […]

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India’s tribes and lower castes demand legal right to shelter, land

India’s tribes and lower castes demand legal right to shelter, land

New Delhi:  For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on land which does not legally belong to them. But there is no where else to go, she says. For over 40 years, the forest […]

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81 Honour Killings in 3 Years, 0 Conviction

81 Honour Killings in 3 Years, 0 Conviction

Madurai: ‘Honour’ killings is indeed a misnorm. But the communities and families involved strongly believe that their honour can be redeemed only if the dalit involved in an inter-caste marriage with a member of their community is killed. In some instances, non-dalit women who married dalits have been murdered by their own families because the […]

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Damoh: Day after, students allege rotis are thrown on platter

Damoh: Day after, students allege rotis are thrown on platter

Bhopal: A day after dalit student paid with his life following refusal to drink water school from hand-pump, another incident of social discrimination at institute has come to light in Damoh district of backward Bundelkhand region. When a team of government officials visited primary school of Khamaria Kalan in Tendukheda tehsil of the district for inquiry […]

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