Ram Nath Kovind was sworn in as India's president on Tuesday, becoming just the second leader from the oppressed Dalit community to be elected head of state...
Kovind is the second Dalit president after K...
Ram Nath Kovind, the candidate of Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former lawyer and state governor from the Dalit community, is certain to win...
His main rival is Meira Kumar, the nominee of the Congress-led opposition and also a Dalit...
Ms Patel’s resignation came as the state witnessed mass protests over the flogging of a Dalit family by a cow vigilante group for skinning a dead animal...
During a rally on Sunday, the Dalit community had put the BJP-led government on notice, saying they would teach the party a lesson in the elections next year...
HYDERABAD (India): Indian police fired water cannons on Monday to disperse students protesting the death of a young Dalit scholar who committed suicide after he was suspended from a university, a case some have blamed on caste-based discrimination...
Rohit Vemula, a 26-year-old doctoral student at the University of Hyderabad, was found hanged on Sunday evening, triggering protests in the southern city and New Delhi...
While the men are routinely subjected to everyday violence, the more heinous attacks on scheduled castes are aimed at girls and womenby Amar GuriroIt is a story of fear and helplessness, unending torment and unrelenting tribulations: Dalit parents are left without a voice or access to justice while their daughters are kidnapped and convertedFear makes perfectly good people provide perfectly valid justifications for ultimately vile...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an emotional tribute on Friday to a young scholar from India's lowest Dalit caste who committed suicide last week, a death some have blamed on social discrimination...
Modi said India had “lost a son” when Rohith Vemula, a 26-year-old doctoral student, was found hanged on Sunday after he was barred from some parts of Hyderabad University campus...
VILLUPURAM: The right arm and leg of a young Dalit man from Villupuram was allegedly hacked off earlier this year after his affair was discovered with a Caste Hindu girl, according to a report published on The Indian Express on Saturday...
The 16-year-old from India's lowest Dalit caste released a letter to a national television network pleading for the violence to stop, after the video of him being punched and kicked in a classroom made headline news...
Police said they took action after studying the video, taken by another boy and uploaded, which shows the Dalit being punched, kicked and slapped at a government-run school in the eastern state of Bihar...
MUMBAI: When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his hometown in Gujarat state to mark his birthday over the weekend, the national media focused on the detention there of a young Dalit rights activist...
In just a few months since he led a protest after four Dalit youths were stripped and flogged by upper-caste Hindu men in Una, Gujarat, for allegedly skinning a dead cow, Jignesh Mevani has become the poster boy for Dalit...
Where are Dalit jobs?Mayawati is calling on minority groups to reject the BJP, whose roots are in Hindu nationalism that many Dalits and Muslims see as a threat to their way of life...
where are the jobs for Dalit boys and girls?” she said...
A young farmer from India's lowest Dalit community has been beaten to death for owning a horse, which is seen as a symbol of power and wealth, police said on Saturday...
Rathod's father, who found the body, “has alleged that his son was killed by people of upper caste community of his village because he owned a horse despite being a Dalit,” deputy police superintendent A...
A priest and three other men have been charged with the gang rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit girl, Indian police said, in a case that sparked days of protests in New Delhi...
The case also highlighted the treatment of the 200 million-strong Dalit community, the lowest group under the country's caste system...
In Hyderabad, the Jogi, a Gujrati-speaking Hindu minority artisan community survives in miserable socio-economic conditions in a small, ghetto-like slum settlement near the central city area...
HYDERABAD: Residents of Gujrati Para, Gulshan-i-Hamid and some other localities held a protest demonstration after Juma prayers against some statements made by the prayer leader of the Jama Masjid Rais, located in neighbouring Gulshan-i-Rais, a couple of days back...
A man convicted of rape and murder was executed early Tuesday morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison...
This is the first execution to take place in Hyderabad since 2015, when two death-row prisoners convicted for the 1998 hijacking of a PIA Fokker were executed in Karachi and Hyderabad jails...