A Dalit Rights Activist

Mr Kunjaman was a professor of economics at Kerala University for over two decades.

A US-based Dalit civil rights organisation on Thursday accused Google of having a casteist and hostile workplace practices. However, Google has denied the allegations.

The bail granted to labour rights campaigner Nodeep Kaur is far from a victory, her elder sister Rajvir Kaur said on Friday, noting that the fight is still on as the list of activists lodged in jails is "very long".

Nine rights activists were searched and five of them arrested on Tuesday over allegations of Maoist links after sweeping multi-city raids that have been described by many as "absolutely chilling" and a "virtual declaration of emergency". The raids and arrests were by the Pune police, in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence in January, in whi...

Demanding a fair investigation into the Bhima-Koregaon riots, the Congress on Friday slammed BJP's double speak after NDA ally and Union Minister Ramdas Athawale had remarked that it was not right to arrest Dalit rights activists branding them as Maoists.

Dalit leader and Gujarat lawmaker Jignesh Mevani today took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Delhi, which was held amid heavy police presence. The police had denied permission for the Youth Hunkar rally and as the organisers decided to proceed with it, deployed nearly 15,000 personnel - armed with water cannons and tear gas -- at the h...

About 31 Dalit activists were arrested on Monday afternoon by the Uttar Pradesh police from the Press Club in Lucknow, where they had called a press conference. They were all released later.

India is set to acquire a prime property here for an estimated 4 million pounds where B R Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution and dalit rights activist, lived during his student days in the 1920s.

Mr Kunjaman was a professor of economics at Kerala University for over two decades.

A US-based Dalit civil rights organisation on Thursday accused Google of having a casteist and hostile workplace practices. However, Google has denied the allegations.

The bail granted to labour rights campaigner Nodeep Kaur is far from a victory, her elder sister Rajvir Kaur said on Friday, noting that the fight is still on as the list of activists lodged in jails is "very long".

Nine rights activists were searched and five of them arrested on Tuesday over allegations of Maoist links after sweeping multi-city raids that have been described by many as "absolutely chilling" and a "virtual declaration of emergency". The raids and arrests were by the Pune police, in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence in January, in whi...

Demanding a fair investigation into the Bhima-Koregaon riots, the Congress on Friday slammed BJP's double speak after NDA ally and Union Minister Ramdas Athawale had remarked that it was not right to arrest Dalit rights activists branding them as Maoists.

Dalit leader and Gujarat lawmaker Jignesh Mevani today took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Delhi, which was held amid heavy police presence. The police had denied permission for the Youth Hunkar rally and as the organisers decided to proceed with it, deployed nearly 15,000 personnel - armed with water cannons and tear gas -- at the h...

About 31 Dalit activists were arrested on Monday afternoon by the Uttar Pradesh police from the Press Club in Lucknow, where they had called a press conference. They were all released later.

India is set to acquire a prime property here for an estimated 4 million pounds where B R Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution and dalit rights activist, lived during his student days in the 1920s.