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- India
TN Untouchability Eradication Front demands separate laws for honour killing
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) has called upon the state government to formulate separate laws for honour killings that are taking the lives of several people from the Dalit and…
- India
Karnataka: Locals stop sending kids to Anganwadi centre after Dalit helper’s appointment
Bidar: In a shocking incident, locals living in a village in Karnataka’s Bidar district have boycotted an Anganwadi centre run by the state government after it appointed a Dalit woman as a…
- India
Dalit panel seeks report on slur by UP Muslim preacher
New Delhi: Taking cognizance of the casteist remark by Muslim preacher Maulana Jarjis Ansari in his videos shared on social media, National Commission for Schedule Castes (NCSC), on the orders of its…
- Bangalore
Textbook row: Karnataka Min orders to drop Dalit writer’s poem
Bengaluru: Amid the controversy over revision of textbooks in Karnataka, the ruling BJP has ordered to drop a poem by a famous Dalit writer which says that the sun and moon are…
- India
Marriage party of Mahadalits attacked in Bihar village
Patna: A group of ‘strongmen’ at a village in Bihar’s Gaya district has allegedly attacked a marriage party of a Mahadalit community while it was passing through an area and playing music, the…
- World
Google cancels Dalit activist’s talk, senior employee resigns in protest
A Dalit activist named Thenmozhi Soundararajan had her scheduled talk at Google News cancelled after employees claimed she was “Hindu-phobic” and “anti-Hindu” in emails to the company’s leaders. Tanuja Gupta, a senior…
- India
Karnataka: Dalit man killed over interfaith relationship, 2 arrested
Kalaburagi: A 25-year-old Dalit man who was in a relationship with a Muslim woman was killed in a suspected case of honour killing here and two persons, including her brother, have been…
- India
Karnataka: Two held for Dalit man’s murder over interfaith love
Kalaburagi: Two people were arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of Dalit youth over interfaith love affair here. Vijaya Kamble, a resident of Bheema Nagar Layout in Wadi town near Chittapur…
- India
4 injured after Dalit wedding procession attacked in Gujarat
Ahmedabad: Several members from the upper caste (Thakor) community on Thursday allegedly attacked the wedding procession of a Dalit woman in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, leaving four persons injured. The injured persons were rushed…
- World
Mohinder K Midha becomes UK’s first female Dalit mayor
London: An Indian-origin politician from the UK’s Opposition Labour Party, Councillor Mohinder K Midha, has been elected mayor of Ealing Council in west London, becoming the first female mayor of a local…
- Bangalore
Message of brotherhood: MLA Zameer feeds Dalit Swamiji, eats same chewed food
Bengaluru: A video of Karnataka Congress MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan has gone viral on the internet in which he was seen sharing food with Dalit Swamiji. In the video, the MLA feeds…
- India
They don’t like rice: Parents defend students who refuse meals prepared by Dalit cook
Around 7-8 students of Uttarakhand government school refused to eat midday meals cooked by a Dalit woman named Sunita Devi. The Indian Express spoke to Prem Singh, the principal of the school…
- India
MP: 48 houses bulldozed following clash during Dalit man’s wedding
Following an incident between members of the local Dalit and Muslim communities in Jirapur, Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district, officials bulldozed 48 houses that they deemed to be allegedly infringing on government land…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Dalit man loses life during treatment, family alleges medical negligence
Hyderabad: A 35-year-old Dalit vegetable vendor from Ibrahimbagh lost his life in the early hours of Friday while undergoing treatment for a heart attack. According to the family and relatives, Venkatesham, who…
- India
Karnataka: Dalit man assaulted for texting upper caste girl
Davanagere: Dalit activists on Tuesday staged a protest against the brutal attack on a 20-year-old young man of their community for messaging an upper-caste girl in this district of the state. Demanding immediate…