Dalit
- India
Gujarat: Seven booked for beating up Dalit man
Palanpur: A Dalit man was allegedly beaten up by a group of persons from an upper caste community at a village in Banaskantha district of Gujarat, as the accused were upset with…
- India
Haryana: Dalit thrashed over his vote in last year’s panchayat election
Gurugram: A Dalit youth was allegedly brutally thrashed after being kidnapped by five men for not voting in favour of one of them in last year’s panchayat elections in Rathiwas village here,…
- Bangalore
Karnataka Cong MLA hits back at rivals trolling her over her clothes
Bengaluru: Nayana Motamma, the newly-elected Dalit MLA of the Congress in Karnataka, has hit out at those trying to target her by circulating visuals from her private life on social media. The…
- Bangalore
‘If a Dalit is not made Karnataka Dy CM…’: Senior leader cautions Congress high command
Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara on Thursday cautioned the party’s central leadership that if a Deputy Chief Minister (DCM) post is not given to a Dalit, there would be adverse reaction…
- Bangalore
Not only Lingayat, BJP lost Dalit & OBC votes too in Karnataka
Bengaluru: When former chief minister and Lingayat strongman B.S. Yediyurappa stated in BJP’s national executive meeting that Karnataka elections can’t be won with the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party…
- Hyderabad
BJP MP Laxman attacks KCR on silence over release of convict who killed Dalit bureaucrat
Hyderabad: BJP leader K Laxman on Friday found fault with Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for allegedly not responding to the release of former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh, who was…
- India
Uttar Pradesh: Man gets life sentence for raping Dalit Boy in 2016
Muzaffarnagar: A special court here on Saturday convicted a man of sodomising an eight-year-old Dalit boy about seven years ago and sentenced him to life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs…
- India
Anti-national powers against quality education for Dalits sent Sisodia to jail: Kejriwal
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said some “anti-national” people in the country sent Manish Sisodia to jail because they do not want quality education for Dalit and underprivileged…
- India
Family of Dalit man beaten to death in Barmer refuses to take his body
Jaipur: The deadlock between the family members of a Dalit man, who was beaten to death, and police and administration in Rajasthan’s Barmer district continued for the third consecutive day on Friday…
- India
Sikh sentenced in UK for targeting Dalits in offensive post
London: A 68-year-old Indian-origin Sikh in the UK has been prosecuted and sentenced to 18 weeks in jail for posting hate speech on social media targeting Dalit communities. Amrik Bajwa, 68, of…
- India
IIT-B student nabbed for suicide of Darshan Solanki
Mumbai: In a major development, the Mumbai Police SIT has arrested a student of IIT-B in connection with the alleged suicide of a Dalit student Darshan Solanki, here on Sunday, officials said.…
- India
Karnataka: Dalit family attacked; VHP, Bajrang Dal give bandh call over police inaction
Mandya: Hindu organisations on Friday gave a shutdown call in Srirangapatna town in Karnataka’s Mandya district in connection with the alleged police inaction over attack on a Dalit family by a group…
- India
UP: 2 doctors booked for Dalit woman’s death, making casteist remarks
Lucknow: Two doctors have been booked in Lucknow for the death of a 45-year-old Dalit woman patient and for using abusive and casteist remarks against the deceased person’s husband when he asked…
- 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…
- Telangana
KCR removed Telangana from his party, why should he not be removed from state?: Bandi
Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Thursday hit out at Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and said that KCR has removed Telangana from his party,…
