Caste
- 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
Sameer Wankhede accuses senior NCB official of humiliation over caste
Mumbai: Former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede has alleged that then Deputy Director of the NCB Gyaneshwar Singh humiliated and harassed him during an inquiry as Wankhede belongs…
- 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,…
- World
California rolls back caste-bias case partially, right-wing Hindus claim victory
Washington: California state has dropped its allegations of caste-based bias by two Indian-descent employees of IT giant Cisco but will continue the larger case against the company. California’s Department of Fair Employment…
- World
Indian-Americans stage peaceful rally against legislation on caste-based discrimination
Washington: Scores of Indian-Americans held a peaceful rally in California to register their protest against a Democratic senator for introducing a bill in the state’s Senate seeking to explicitly ban caste-based discrimination.…
- India
Memoir of Dalit publisher-writer Yogesh Maitreya to release on April 22
New Delhi: The memoir of Yogesh Maitreya, a leading independent Indian Dalit publisher, writer and poet, will hit the stands on April 22, announced Penguin Random House India (PRHI) on Sunday. Encompassing…
- India
Right-wing Hindu Americans now seek to stop California from banning caste bias
Washington: After failing to prevent the city of Seattle from outlawing caste-based discrimination, right-wing Hindu Americans are girding up to stop the state of California from going down that route. The Hindu…
