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Delhi Couple Arrested For "Unlawful" Conversion Of Dalit Man In UP: Cops
Police on Saturday arrested a couple for the "unlawful" conversion of a Dalit man to Islam in the Thana Bhawan area of Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, officials said.
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UP Man Arrested For Converting 230 Dalit Families To Christianity: Cops
Police arrested a man today who allegedly converted 230 Dalit families to Christianity promising to cure their members suffering from any ailment.
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Centre Forms Panel To Examine Giving Dalit Status To Religious Converts
Centre has appointed a commission headed by former CJI KG Balakrishnan to examine the matter of giving Scheduled Caste status to new people who claim to "historically" have belonged to Scheduled Castes, but have converted their religion.
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Dalit Family Attacked In Karnataka Allegedly Over Conversion: Police
A Dalit family was allegedly attacked by a group of people accusing them of converting neighbours to Christianity, police said on Monday.
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120 Dalits From Haryana Convert To Buddhism, Blame BJP Government
As many as 120 Dalits from Haryana's Jind district have converted to Buddhism over non-fulfilment of their demands including making SC/ST Act more stringent, Dalit leader Dinesh Khapad claimed today.
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Mayawati's Online Campaign By Young Grads Who Say 'Soon, A Dalit For PM'
"That will not be possible," said the man at the headquarters of Mayawati's Bahujan SAmaj Party. "But sir, what about the person running your Twitter account?" we persist. "We don't have a Twitter handle." "But sir, it is verified?" The conversation ends.
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Venkaiah Naidu Decries Violence Against Dalits, Says Conversion Won't Help
Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday deplored violence against Dalits in the name of cow protection but maintained that their getting converted would not end prejudices, days after his ministerial colleague Ramdas Athawale suggested that members of the community should embrace Buddhism.
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Why This Family's Conversion From Hinduism To Buddhism Matters
Rohith Vemula was never able to escape the trappings of his "low birth." He was a "Dalit" -- a term that roughly translates to "broken" -- a grouping of lower castes once referred to as "untouchables." Entries in his diary and interviews with his friends revealed a story filled with the hardships of growing up poor, and interactions with a society ...
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Blog: This Story of Oppression is Always Half Told
Both the national and the international media widely covered the conversion of these Dalit families on August 8 this year. But they were mostly silent the next day about the police lathicharge on them.
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Supreme Court Orders Kerala Government to Give 'Reconverted' Person His Job Back
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a person on "reconversion" to Hinduism from Christianity is entitled to caste-based quota benefits if the community accepts him.
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Kerala BJP Seeks Discontinuation of Ranganath Report on Dalits
Kerala BJP today sought discontinuation of the Ranganath Mishra Commission report which has recommended inclusion to convert Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims in the list of Scheduled Castes.
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Dalit man's death: Suicide, say police; parents suspect foul play
Ilavarasan's death could well be a suicide, say the police, who claim to have accessed his mobile phone recording of a conversation between the Dalit man and his wife a few days before his death in which he talks of killing himself if she did not return to him.
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Delhi Couple Arrested For "Unlawful" Conversion Of Dalit Man In UP: Cops
Police on Saturday arrested a couple for the "unlawful" conversion of a Dalit man to Islam in the Thana Bhawan area of Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, officials said.
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UP Man Arrested For Converting 230 Dalit Families To Christianity: Cops
Police arrested a man today who allegedly converted 230 Dalit families to Christianity promising to cure their members suffering from any ailment.
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Centre Forms Panel To Examine Giving Dalit Status To Religious Converts
Centre has appointed a commission headed by former CJI KG Balakrishnan to examine the matter of giving Scheduled Caste status to new people who claim to "historically" have belonged to Scheduled Castes, but have converted their religion.
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Dalit Family Attacked In Karnataka Allegedly Over Conversion: Police
A Dalit family was allegedly attacked by a group of people accusing them of converting neighbours to Christianity, police said on Monday.
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120 Dalits From Haryana Convert To Buddhism, Blame BJP Government
As many as 120 Dalits from Haryana's Jind district have converted to Buddhism over non-fulfilment of their demands including making SC/ST Act more stringent, Dalit leader Dinesh Khapad claimed today.
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Mayawati's Online Campaign By Young Grads Who Say 'Soon, A Dalit For PM'
"That will not be possible," said the man at the headquarters of Mayawati's Bahujan SAmaj Party. "But sir, what about the person running your Twitter account?" we persist. "We don't have a Twitter handle." "But sir, it is verified?" The conversation ends.
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Venkaiah Naidu Decries Violence Against Dalits, Says Conversion Won't Help
Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday deplored violence against Dalits in the name of cow protection but maintained that their getting converted would not end prejudices, days after his ministerial colleague Ramdas Athawale suggested that members of the community should embrace Buddhism.
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Why This Family's Conversion From Hinduism To Buddhism Matters
Rohith Vemula was never able to escape the trappings of his "low birth." He was a "Dalit" -- a term that roughly translates to "broken" -- a grouping of lower castes once referred to as "untouchables." Entries in his diary and interviews with his friends revealed a story filled with the hardships of growing up poor, and interactions with a society ...
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Blog: This Story of Oppression is Always Half Told
Both the national and the international media widely covered the conversion of these Dalit families on August 8 this year. But they were mostly silent the next day about the police lathicharge on them.
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Supreme Court Orders Kerala Government to Give 'Reconverted' Person His Job Back
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a person on "reconversion" to Hinduism from Christianity is entitled to caste-based quota benefits if the community accepts him.
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Kerala BJP Seeks Discontinuation of Ranganath Report on Dalits
Kerala BJP today sought discontinuation of the Ranganath Mishra Commission report which has recommended inclusion to convert Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims in the list of Scheduled Castes.
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Dalit man's death: Suicide, say police; parents suspect foul play
Ilavarasan's death could well be a suicide, say the police, who claim to have accessed his mobile phone recording of a conversation between the Dalit man and his wife a few days before his death in which he talks of killing himself if she did not return to him.
