Dalit Protesters

A bandh to protest the Supreme Court's 'quota within a quota' decision about quota in state government jobs and colleges for SC and ST candidates was held in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and other states Wednesday.

Eight years after massive protests and a political controversy erupted over his death by suicide, forcing the Modi government to clarify that it was not anti-Dalit, the Telangana Police has filed a closure report in the Rohith Vemula case.

We must be able to differentiate between brute forces that perpetuate casteism and humble appeals against it

In an incident shocking in its brutality, an 18-year-old Dalit woman working at an oil mill was pushed into a cauldron with hot oil when she protested sexual harassment.

Locals from all backgrounds have held a protest on the streets of Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district, alleging interference by the area's BJP MP and Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel in the investigation of a Dalit man's suicide.

The top body of the country's bureaucrats has issued a vociferous protest against the change in rules in Bihar to facilitate the release of gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh, who was serving a life term for the murder of a Dalit IAS office

Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the metropolis, surrounded by a cohort of TMC leaders and workers under television camera arclights.

A group called Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha on Sunday in Vrindavan burned photocopies of pages allegedly carrying "objectionable comments on women and Dalits" in Ramcharitmanas, supporting SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya.

The death of a 15-year-Dalit boy, who was allegedly beaten by a teacher from his school in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, has sparked massive protests.

Students, local Dalit leaders and the wife of Dr Chander Shekhar, the University of Jammu professor who died by suicide on Wednesday, have alleged that the professor was the victim of a conspiracy because of his caste

Dalit organisations staged a protest in Karnataka's Chitradurga on Tuesday, demanding the immediate arrest of Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, the chief pontiff of Murugha Math, who has been booked under the POCSO Act for alleged sexual abuse.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was arrested here today while staging a protest against the state government over an incident of a 16-year-old Dalit girl being beaten up in the district.

Dalit students at a government school in Uttarakhand's Champawat district refused to eat mid-day meals cooked by an upper-caste woman after a cook from the Scheduled Caste community was sacked allegedly following protests over her caste.

The Punjab government on Wednesday constituted a special investigation team to look into a complaint of the sister of a Dalit labourer, who was lynched to death at a farmers' protest site in Singhu, as she alleged that he was "allured" and taken to t

Two more Nihangs - 'warrior' Sikhs - have surrendered to the police in connection with the gruesome murder of a Dalit labourer at a farmers' protest site in Haryana's Singhu yesterday.

A bandh to protest the Supreme Court's 'quota within a quota' decision about quota in state government jobs and colleges for SC and ST candidates was held in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and other states Wednesday.

Eight years after massive protests and a political controversy erupted over his death by suicide, forcing the Modi government to clarify that it was not anti-Dalit, the Telangana Police has filed a closure report in the Rohith Vemula case.

We must be able to differentiate between brute forces that perpetuate casteism and humble appeals against it

In an incident shocking in its brutality, an 18-year-old Dalit woman working at an oil mill was pushed into a cauldron with hot oil when she protested sexual harassment.

Locals from all backgrounds have held a protest on the streets of Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district, alleging interference by the area's BJP MP and Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel in the investigation of a Dalit man's suicide.

The top body of the country's bureaucrats has issued a vociferous protest against the change in rules in Bihar to facilitate the release of gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh, who was serving a life term for the murder of a Dalit IAS office

Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the metropolis, surrounded by a cohort of TMC leaders and workers under television camera arclights.

A group called Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha on Sunday in Vrindavan burned photocopies of pages allegedly carrying "objectionable comments on women and Dalits" in Ramcharitmanas, supporting SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya.

The death of a 15-year-Dalit boy, who was allegedly beaten by a teacher from his school in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, has sparked massive protests.

Students, local Dalit leaders and the wife of Dr Chander Shekhar, the University of Jammu professor who died by suicide on Wednesday, have alleged that the professor was the victim of a conspiracy because of his caste

Dalit organisations staged a protest in Karnataka's Chitradurga on Tuesday, demanding the immediate arrest of Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, the chief pontiff of Murugha Math, who has been booked under the POCSO Act for alleged sexual abuse.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was arrested here today while staging a protest against the state government over an incident of a 16-year-old Dalit girl being beaten up in the district.

Dalit students at a government school in Uttarakhand's Champawat district refused to eat mid-day meals cooked by an upper-caste woman after a cook from the Scheduled Caste community was sacked allegedly following protests over her caste.

The Punjab government on Wednesday constituted a special investigation team to look into a complaint of the sister of a Dalit labourer, who was lynched to death at a farmers' protest site in Singhu, as she alleged that he was "allured" and taken to t

Two more Nihangs - 'warrior' Sikhs - have surrendered to the police in connection with the gruesome murder of a Dalit labourer at a farmers' protest site in Haryana's Singhu yesterday.