After submission of reports by two Court Commissioners on the alleged social boycott of Dalits in Bhatla village of Hisar district, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has now directed the Deputy... Read more »
A Dalit family of Delvada village in Gir Somnath has written to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that they be allowed euthanasia as the state government “has failed to... Read more »
Tribals living in the hills around Sabarimala alleged that the government and the Travancore Devaswom Board were trying to demolish centuries-old customs by allowing entry of women in the 10-50 age group... Read more »
The Himachal Congress will soon hold a state-level rally in Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur’s hometown Mandi against the ruling BJP’s “anti-Dalit” policies, HPCC chief Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said Tuesday. Talking to... Read more »
by Ram Puniyani The violence in Bheema Koregaon is still reverberating. We recall that on January 1, 2018, thousands of Dalits returning from Bheema Koregaon were beaten up. In that context the... Read more »
The Una Dalit atrocity case, that shook the collective conscience of the nation, now faces the risk of going into cold storage like thousands of other pending cases that are yet to... Read more »
Three people were arrested for allegedly objecting to the appointment of a Dalit woman as a cook in a government school in Salem district, months after another woman faced a similar opposition... Read more »
If Supreme Court judgment comes in favour of Babri Masjid, Bhim Sena members will themselves build masjid. Told Bhim Sena national president Rajender Maan Ji. He told this while addressing a Dalit... Read more »
The Jeevan Prabhat Ashram, a child care-cum-orphanage in Gandhidham that hid the rape of a 16-year-old Dalit for almost a month, before cops got a wind of it, had been earlier pulled... Read more »
On September 22 and 23, 2012, three Dalit youth – Mehul Rathod, Pankaj Sumra and Prakash Parmar – were killed allegedly in police firing in Thangadh, Surendranagar district, Gujarat. Pankaj was 16... Read more »