Caste
- India
Field survey exercise of ongoing caste-based headcount in Bihar complete: Officials
Patna: The field survey exercise pertaining to the ongoing caste-based headcount survey in Bihar is complete now, officials said. District authorities across the state have intensified the process of digitally recording the…
- India
All eyes on when caste survey will begin in UP, Mayawati says
Lucknow: After Patna High Court upheld the caste survey in Bihar as “perfectly valid” and “initiated with due competence”, BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday said all eyes are now on when Uttar…
- India
Patna HC rejects all petitions challenging caste survey in Bihar
Patna: The Patna High Court on Tuesday rejected all petitions challenging the caste survey ordered by the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, senior advocate Dinu Kumar, a counsel for one of the…
- Photos
Gujjars protests against inclusion of upper-caste Paharis in ST list
Srinagar: Hundreds of Gujjar and Bakarwals from different parts of the country assembled in Srinagar’s press enclave in Lal chowk on the evening of Tuesday, July 25, to protest against the inclusion…
- India
Patna HC reserves verdict on caste census
Patna: The Patna High Court on Friday reserved its decision on the caste based census. The hearing of this case was underway since July 5 before the bench of Chief Justice K.…
- India
Caste has no role to play in appointment of temple priests, rules Madras HC
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday made it clear that pedigree based on caste will not have any role to play in the appointment of an ‘archaka’ (temple priest) if the…
- India
Dalit man suffers caste violence for objecting tree felling
Etah: The private parts of a 32-year-old Dalit man were allegedly slashed by upper caste men for “objecting” to tree felling on his land in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district. The victim, Satendra…
- Bangalore
Karnataka govt to receive socio-economic caste survey report: Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday assured that he would receive the report of the social economic caste survey conducted by the Permanent Backward Classes Commission during the erstwhile Government led…
- India
Caste calculations in Rajasthan – and why Pilot matters in 30 seats
Jaipur: As Rajasthan goes to the polls in December this year, there are crucial caste equations which one needs to study and understand for the social engineering in this state is a…
- India
SC judge recuses himself from hearing Bihar plea against HC bar on caste survey
New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Sanjay Karol on Wednesday opted out from hearing a plea filed by the Bihar government against the Patna High Court order, which stayed the caste survey by…
- World
California Senate passes bill to ban caste bias
New York: The California state Senate passed by 34-1 vote a bill that would make discrimination on the basis of caste illegal in the state. California would become the first state to…
- India
Bihar govt directs all DMs to implement Patna HC decision on caste-based survey
Patna: In wake of Patna High Court’s interim stay on the caste-based survey on Thursday, the Bihar government has asked District Magistrates of all 38 districts to stop the exercise with immediate…
- India
Bihar: Second phase of caste-based census begins, to continue till May 15
Patna: The second phase of the caste-based census has started in the State and will continue till May 15, said Dr Chandrashekhar Singh, DM, Patna. The decision of a caste census was…
- India
Congress president Kharge writes to PM Modi demanding caste census
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded an up-to-date caste census. In his letter, Kharge said in the absence of an updated caste census,…