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UP minister who resigned says he will continue in office
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Dinesh Khatik, who had created a furore on Wednesday by sending his resignation to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, said on Thursday that…
- India
UP: 2 Dalit minors allegedly forced to remove school uniforms
Hyderabad: Two Dalit minors were forced to remove their uniforms in a government primary school by their teachers on July 11 in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh. According to the media reports, parents of…
- India
UP: 2 months after being gang-raped and run over, Dalit woman loses leg
Mathura: A 30-year-old Dalit woman from Kosi Kalan area has lost her leg, almost two months after she was gang-raped and the accused crushed her leg with a motorbike. The woman had…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: Book on RSS by Dalit writer stirs controversy
Bengaluru: A book on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) by prominent Dalit writer and activist Devanur Mahadeva in Karnataka has stirred controversy. Right-wingers are calling it propaganda against the RSS. The sale…
- India
MP: Probe ordered into ambulance denial to carry body of a child in Morena
Bhopal: A day after a video surfaced on social media showing an eight-year-old Dalit child cradling his younger dead brother’s body and sitting near a drain, after the hospital administration refused an ambulance…
- 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…
