Nitish Kumar Dalits

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) would not harm the interests of Muslims or the tribal communities, Union minister Ramdas Athawale said here on Wednesday.

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

Maheshwar Hazari accuses Vijay Kumar Sinha of "insulting Dalits" by announcing someone else's name for conducting proceedings after stepping down

Embattled Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan fired a fresh salvo at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday, accusing him of an "anti-Dalit mindset" and of "mistreating Dalits within his own party".

Jitan Ram Manjhi has spent the better part of his four-decades-long political career as a leader of parties in power. From the Congress to the undivided Janata Dal, and later its splinter groups - Lalu Yadav's RJD and Nitish Kumar's JDU - he has jumped from one party to another whenever a shift in power took place.

Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan has trashed suggestions that he parted ways with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) because of differences over seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly election, and accused the Chief Minister of harming the Dalit community by creating a sub-group of Mahadalits.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who will front the opposition coalition in this month's Assembly election, has handed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar an ultimatum - either arrest and question him for the murder of a Dalit leader or order a CBI probe that would reveal "baseless" allegations.

The road to re-election for the BJP in 2019 doesn't just lead through Uttar Pradesh but Bihar too. But five years since the party won 22 out of the state's 40 seats in the national polls, its relationship status with the group that powered its victory - the 16 per cent Dalits - is "complicated". The community's disenchantment with the BJP threatens...

Continuing his effort to insulate his party from the perceived resentment among the Dalit community following last month's violent protests, the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar on Tuesday announced special grants for civil services aspirants from the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe who clear the preliminary exam.

Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has alleged that the Bihar government headed by Nitish Kumar is "shedding crocodile tears" on Dalit issues and said that the state has an abysmally low rate of conviction in cases lodged under the SC/ST Act.

Continuing its Dalit outreach, the central government has decided to expand a scheme to provide subsidised food grains to students belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes (OBC) living in government-run Ambedkar hostels across the country.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that no one has enough power to end reservation for Dalits and backward classes in education and government jobs.

Against the backdrop of recent Dalit protests, political parties in Bihar appear to be in competition with each other to woo the community.And the most politically correct way of doing that seems to be offering tributes to Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar on April 14, his birth anniversary.

A month-long assembly session is coming to an end in Bihar and not once did Chief Minister Nitish Kumar call a joint meeting of lawmakers with his coalition partner, the BJP. There couldn't have been a clearer sign that apart from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar is another state where BJP's friendships have hit a rough patch.

The choice of Meira Kumar who is from Bihar and a Jatav Dalit has certainly put Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in a tight spot politically which was the intent of Sonia Gandhi and RJD chief, Lalu Yadav, who are upset with Nitish Kumar's "defection" in saying his party will vote for Kovind.

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) would not harm the interests of Muslims or the tribal communities, Union minister Ramdas Athawale said here on Wednesday.

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

Maheshwar Hazari accuses Vijay Kumar Sinha of "insulting Dalits" by announcing someone else's name for conducting proceedings after stepping down

Embattled Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan fired a fresh salvo at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday, accusing him of an "anti-Dalit mindset" and of "mistreating Dalits within his own party".

Jitan Ram Manjhi has spent the better part of his four-decades-long political career as a leader of parties in power. From the Congress to the undivided Janata Dal, and later its splinter groups - Lalu Yadav's RJD and Nitish Kumar's JDU - he has jumped from one party to another whenever a shift in power took place.

Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan has trashed suggestions that he parted ways with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) because of differences over seat-sharing for the Bihar assembly election, and accused the Chief Minister of harming the Dalit community by creating a sub-group of Mahadalits.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who will front the opposition coalition in this month's Assembly election, has handed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar an ultimatum - either arrest and question him for the murder of a Dalit leader or order a CBI probe that would reveal "baseless" allegations.

The road to re-election for the BJP in 2019 doesn't just lead through Uttar Pradesh but Bihar too. But five years since the party won 22 out of the state's 40 seats in the national polls, its relationship status with the group that powered its victory - the 16 per cent Dalits - is "complicated". The community's disenchantment with the BJP threatens...

Continuing his effort to insulate his party from the perceived resentment among the Dalit community following last month's violent protests, the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar on Tuesday announced special grants for civil services aspirants from the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe who clear the preliminary exam.

Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has alleged that the Bihar government headed by Nitish Kumar is "shedding crocodile tears" on Dalit issues and said that the state has an abysmally low rate of conviction in cases lodged under the SC/ST Act.

Continuing its Dalit outreach, the central government has decided to expand a scheme to provide subsidised food grains to students belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes (OBC) living in government-run Ambedkar hostels across the country.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that no one has enough power to end reservation for Dalits and backward classes in education and government jobs.

Against the backdrop of recent Dalit protests, political parties in Bihar appear to be in competition with each other to woo the community.And the most politically correct way of doing that seems to be offering tributes to Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar on April 14, his birth anniversary.

A month-long assembly session is coming to an end in Bihar and not once did Chief Minister Nitish Kumar call a joint meeting of lawmakers with his coalition partner, the BJP. There couldn't have been a clearer sign that apart from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar is another state where BJP's friendships have hit a rough patch.

The choice of Meira Kumar who is from Bihar and a Jatav Dalit has certainly put Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in a tight spot politically which was the intent of Sonia Gandhi and RJD chief, Lalu Yadav, who are upset with Nitish Kumar's "defection" in saying his party will vote for Kovind.