Chandigarh, May 23 (PTI) Two days after some Dalit families alleged harrasment at the hands of a majority community, the Hisar district administration today ordered a probe into it by a Deputy Superintendent of Police. The families had alleged that some ...

Its purpose was to give India’s Dalit — or “untouchable” — children a chance for a better future. Caauwe is working on a feature-length documentary to shed light on matter. He hopes the film will inspire the next group of youth to build schools ...

A close relative of a former Uttar Pradesh minister and BSP leader was accused of raping a 10-year-old dalit girl in the district. According to police here today, a case has been registered against Pawan Kumar, brother-in-law of former state ...

Noida: The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday ordered that power supply be cut to the Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida during day time hours. As per the government order, the memorial and park built during the tenure of Mayawati would have no electricity ...

Champatiray was officiating as inspector-in-charge of Pipili police station when the 19-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped and a subsequent attempt was made to kill her on November 29 last year at Arjungoda village in Puri district.

Sixty percent of rural households lack access to toilets, an issue that particularly affects Dalits, who comprise 16.3 percent of the population, said Asha Kotwal, general secretary of the All India Dalit Women’s Rights Forum. "Over 700,000 of our people ...

Likewise, Jeevan Pariyar, president of Dalit Association Nepal said that ethnicity based federalism would disintegrate the nation. He said, “We are around six million dalits in the country but we have never asked for a separate dalit state.”

This is because Jayalalitha has already allotted 41 seats to the actor Vijayakant founded DMDK, 12 to the CPM, 10 to CPI, and the remaining 11 seats to a host of smaller parties including Dalit outfit ‘Pudiya Tamizhagam’ and actor Sarath Kumar’s ‘S ...

On the presidential polls, Mayawati was dismissive of the candidatures of P. A. Sangma and Pranab Mukherjee and indicated that the BSP would prefer a Dalit or minority. "We will support a candidate who is suitable to us in the line of our party's movement.

The third red herring is the antiquity of the cartoon. Sensitivities change over time, as does audibility. Sixty years ago, the Dalit voice was far less audible than it is today. The fact that a cartoon insensitive — if it is insensitive that is — to ...