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- India
UP: Dalit student beaten in Shahjahanpur over garlanding of statue
Shahjahanpur: A Dalit college student was allegedly thrashed by a group of students a month after he stopped them from garlanding a bust of ‘Bharat Mata’ wearing shoes, police said on Wednesday. According…
- World
Ban caste discrimination: Ambedkar Intl Center to Seattle City Council
The Ambedkar International Center, Inc. (AIC), a US-based civil rights group that fights against caste oppression, and other groups have asked the Seattle City Council to ban caste-based discrimination. The proposed ordinance,…
- India
Dalit bodies in TN demand demolition of water tank with human waste
Chennai: Dalit political parties and organisations in Tamil Nadu have demanded demolition of the overhead water tank in which human feces was found at Vengaivasal Panchayat in Pudukkottai district. The overhead water…
- India
Uttarakhand: Dalit man assaulted with burning stick for entering temple in Uttarkashi
Dehradun: A Dalit man was allegedly assaulted by a group of people and singed with burning sticks when he entered a temple to offer prayers at Salra village in Mori area of…
- India
Karnataka: Dalit woman dragged, beaten at temple; video surfaces
Bengaluru: A video of a woman being kicked, dragged and beaten with sticks in a temple in Bengaluru surfaced and has gone viral on social media. The victim Hemavathi had lodged a…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Dalit leader booked for ‘abusing’ lord Ayyappa
Hyderabad: The city police’s cyber crime cell here booked a case against Bairi Naresh, Dalit leader and head of ‘Bharata Nasthika Samajam’ for allegedly passing derogatory statements against Hindu religious figures Lord…
- India
TN: Dalit man dies by suicide over false theft complaint, police denies allegations
A 20-year-old Dalit man belonging to the Paraiyar community died by suicide on December 23, a day after he was taken into police custody over an alleged theft complaint. The incident happened…
- India
Jharkhand: Following protests, upper caste man held for murdering Dalit girl
Piyush Tiwari, a 23-year-old belonging to the upper caste was arrested on December 9 in Bihar on charges of murdering a 17-year-old Dalit girl. The murder took place on December 5 in…
- India
Dalit man thrashed, humiliated with shoe garland in Rajasthan’s Sirohi district
Jaipur: A Dalit man was allegedly beaten up and forced to wear a garland made of shoes by three men on Friday in Rajasthan’s Sirohi district, police said. The accused thrashed Bharat…
- India
Karnataka: FIR over ‘purification’ of water tank touched by Dalit woman
The Chamarajanagar district police lodged an FIR (First Information Report) against a lingayat leader under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act-2015, two days after upper-class villagers purified a mini water tank…
- India
Karnataka: Dalits drink from public taps to protest ‘gaumutra cleansing’
Days after upper-class villagers in Heggotara village of Chamarajanagar taluk, Karnataka, cleaned a mini water tank with gaumutra in order to ‘purify’ it after a Dalit woman drank water; young men from…
- India
UP: Dalit woman claims threats by accused’s family to withdraw rape case
Bhadohi (UP): A Dalit gang-rape survivor has alleged that she was subjected to casteist slurs and threatened by family members of one of the accused to withdraw the case, police said on Monday.…
- India
Karnataka: Villagers clean mini tank with gaumutra after Dalit drinks from tap
A Dalit woman got castigated by upper-class Hindu villagers after she drank water from a mini-tank in Heggotara village of Chamarajanagar taluk, Karnataka. They later cleaned the tank with gaumutra (cow’s urine)…
- India
With BSP, Congress opting out, all eyes on Dalit votes in Mainpuri bypoll
Mainpuri: Dalit voters will play a decisive role in the bypoll to the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, which fell vacant after the death of Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, as…
- Bangalore
Portrayal of Dalits in superhit ‘Kantara’ condemned
Bengaluru: Dalit organisations have condemned the portrayal of Dalits in the super hit pan-India Kannada movie “Kantara”. Samatha Sainik Dal State Secretary Lolaksha has stated that the film has insulted Dalits. “The Dalit…