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- India
UP: Dalit woman assaulted after goat strays into another’s field
A 60-year-old Dalit woman was beaten and abused by a man when her goat accidentally strayed into the latter’s fields. The incident occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahar region. A video of the…
- India
UP: Holi turns violent as Dalit, Upper caste men attack each other; 1 arrested
Fifteen people have been reportedly injured and one person arrested in a clash between Dalits and upper-caste Hindus that occurred during Holi celebrations in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district. According to Bijnor superintendent…
- News
CAA, NRC & NPR being brought to trouble minorities, tribals, & Dalits: Owaisi
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said the National Population Register and NRC should be seen in the light of the CAA and alleged these measures are being brought with…
- Delhi
Delhi BJP to launch mega Dalit outreach drive ahead of LS Polls
New Delhi: The Delhi BJP is going to roll out a mega Dalit outreach campaign ahead of Lok Sabha polls through a series of events, including a “Dhanyawad Modi” rally, over the…
- India
Mumbai: Dalit student held for social media post against Ram Mandir event
On January 22, a Dalit student of the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, voiced his opposition to holding a Ram Temple celebratory event on the campus and persuaded 34 others to…
- India
Dalit boy beaten up, forced to drink urine in Rajasthan
In a disturbing incident, a young Dalit boy of Rajasthan’s Ajmer district was allegedly assaulted with sticks and rods and forced to drink urine by upper-caste men. His mistake: He was making…
- India
Cops injured in clash between Dalits, upper-caste in Mysuru
Dalits and upper-caste groups pelted stones at each other in Hallare village of Nanjangud taluk in Mysuru district on January 29 following a dispute over naming a road after BR Ambedkar. The…
- India
MP: Angry Dalits bulldoze Sardar Patel’s statue in Ujjain, demand Ambedkar’s instead
Clashes erupted between the upper caste Patidars, who are reportedly close to the ruling BJP party, and members of the Dalit community in Makdon village of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, on Thursday, January…
- Bangalore
Karnataka CM airs concern over poor conviction in cases of atrocities against Dalits
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction over the poor conviction rate in cases relating to atrocities committed against Dalits. He was speaking at the annual conference of senior police…
- India
TN: 60 Dalits walk on street wearing chappals after decades of oppression
As many as 60 Dalits from Madathukulam taluk, Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu, entered a street with chappals for the first time, thus breaking the age-old oppressive caste system and challenging social discrimination.…
- India
SP flags off ‘Samajik Nyay Yatra’ to strengthen base among Dalits, minorities
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday flagged off here the ‘Samajik Nyay Yatra’ to strengthen his party’s base among the PDA — Pichde (backward classes), Dalit and Alpasankhyak (minorities). The yatra…
- India
Once OBCs, Dalits, tribals learn about their actual population, country will change: Rahul
Bemetara/ Balodabazar: Reiterating his party’s demand for a caste census, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the day the Other Backward Classes, Dalits and tribals learn about their actual population, the “country…
- Telangana
Why only in Telangana? Prakash Ambedkar slams Congress over scheme for Dalits
Hyderabad: Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar on Sunday, November 12, raised questions about the Congress party’s selective poll promise to Dalits in Telangana and not in other states. “The Congress…
- Telangana
Telangana polls: PM Modi woos Dalits with MRPS chief by his side
Hyderabad: In a major outreach to the Madiga community, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, November 11 promised to constitute a committee to examine the long-standing demand for the sub-categorisation of the…
- Telangana
‘Dalit Bandhu has become BRS Bandhu’: Protests intensify in Telangana
Hyderabad: Alleging irregularities in allotment of Dalit Bandhu scheme units, women from Dalit community staged a protest in front of the gram panchayat office in Dharmapuri mandal of Jagtial on Wednesday. The…
