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Stolen Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video: What You Need to Know About its Cast, Plot, and more
Catch the acclaimed thriller Stolen, now streaming on Prime Video. This socially conscious film explores motherhood, bias, and justice through the harrowing story of a stolen child in rural India.
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"Right To Live With Dignity..." Supreme Court Bans Caste-Based Discrimination In Prisons
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks and bias against prisoners of de-notified tribes and habitual offenders.
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"Nightmare": JP Morgan Vice President Faces Caste Bias In Gujarat's Housing Complex
Taking to X, Anirudh Kejriwal shared his grievances, tagging the Gujarat Police, Gujarat BJP, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, and other stakeholders.
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Parliamentary Panel Hints At "Bias" Against SC, ST Faculty Candidates
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates are deliberately declared "not suitable" for appointment as faculty members in educational institutions because of "biased" assessment by selection panels, a parliamentary panel has said.
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After Student's Suicide, IIT Bombay Plans Curriculum Revamp To Cut Stress
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has formed a panel to conduct a "parallel" probe into the death of a first-year B.Tech student amid allegations of caste bias and has urged its students to come forward if they have "relevant" information.
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1 in 4 Indians Faced Caste, Religion Bias In Health Services: Oxfam India
A third of Muslims, over 20 per cent Dalits and Adivasis, and 30 per cent of the overall respondents reported are being discriminated against on grounds of religion, caste or because of illness or health conditions in hospitals or by healthcare profe
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Opinion: From Hathras To Delhi, A Land Without Justice - by Ramachandra Guha
That there exists a deep class, caste, and religious bias in how justice is administered in India has long been known. But even by our always abysmally low standards, the recent behaviour of the police and the state administration in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh has been unprecedented.
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JNU Admin Refutes Reports Claiming Caste Bias Against Students, Faculty
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration has refuted some media reports claiming that there is discrimination against students and teachers belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) category in the varsity.
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Journalism Students In Bhopal Accuse 2 Visiting Professors Of Caste Bias
The students of a journalism university in Bhopal on Friday staged a protest against two visiting professors, alleging they create a divide among students and discriminate based on caste.
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Twitter India Responds to Caste Bias Allegations, Says It Is Impartial
Twitter India on Thursday claimed that it is an impartial platform and does not take action based upon any ideology or political viewpoint.
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Mothers Of Rohit Vemula, Payal Tadvi Move Top Court Over Campus Caste Bias
Mothers of Payal Tadvi and Rohith Vemula who had committed suicide over alleged caste discrimination, have moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions for strict measures to end caste discrimination in university campuses.
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TCS Faces US Jury Over Why It Fires So Many Americans
India's IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they're not South Asian. The company is set to go on trial Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices ...
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"Caste Bias": Another Dalit BJP Lawmaker From UP Writes To Prime Minister
The count of Dalit lawmakers from the BJP hitting out against their own government for what they call discrimination against Dalits has gone up to four, including three from Uttar Pradesh. The latest entrant to the list, Ashok Kumar Dohrey, who represents Etawah in Lok Sabha.
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: 5 Facts About India's First Woman To Run For Legislative Office
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, the firebrand social reformer, has been honoured with a Google Doodle on her 115th birth anniversary. From persuading Mahatma Gandhi to call upon women to march with him in the Indian Independence Movement to reinvigorating the culture of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay wore several hat...
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Unequal Land Ownership At Root Of Caste Violence, Says Dalit Writer Sujatha Gidla
Mumbai: Education alone will not lift millions of lower-caste Indians out of poverty and oppression as long as land in the country is in the hands of a powerful few, according to a Dalit writer whose memoir chronicles her family’s struggles against caste. Caste-based discrimination was banned in India in 1955, but centuries-old biases persist, ...
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Stolen Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video: What You Need to Know About its Cast, Plot, and more
Catch the acclaimed thriller Stolen, now streaming on Prime Video. This socially conscious film explores motherhood, bias, and justice through the harrowing story of a stolen child in rural India.
-
"Right To Live With Dignity..." Supreme Court Bans Caste-Based Discrimination In Prisons
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks and bias against prisoners of de-notified tribes and habitual offenders.
-
"Nightmare": JP Morgan Vice President Faces Caste Bias In Gujarat's Housing Complex
Taking to X, Anirudh Kejriwal shared his grievances, tagging the Gujarat Police, Gujarat BJP, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, and other stakeholders.
-
Parliamentary Panel Hints At "Bias" Against SC, ST Faculty Candidates
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates are deliberately declared "not suitable" for appointment as faculty members in educational institutions because of "biased" assessment by selection panels, a parliamentary panel has said.
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After Student's Suicide, IIT Bombay Plans Curriculum Revamp To Cut Stress
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has formed a panel to conduct a "parallel" probe into the death of a first-year B.Tech student amid allegations of caste bias and has urged its students to come forward if they have "relevant" information.
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1 in 4 Indians Faced Caste, Religion Bias In Health Services: Oxfam India
A third of Muslims, over 20 per cent Dalits and Adivasis, and 30 per cent of the overall respondents reported are being discriminated against on grounds of religion, caste or because of illness or health conditions in hospitals or by healthcare profe
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Opinion: From Hathras To Delhi, A Land Without Justice - by Ramachandra Guha
That there exists a deep class, caste, and religious bias in how justice is administered in India has long been known. But even by our always abysmally low standards, the recent behaviour of the police and the state administration in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh has been unprecedented.
-
JNU Admin Refutes Reports Claiming Caste Bias Against Students, Faculty
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration has refuted some media reports claiming that there is discrimination against students and teachers belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) category in the varsity.
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Journalism Students In Bhopal Accuse 2 Visiting Professors Of Caste Bias
The students of a journalism university in Bhopal on Friday staged a protest against two visiting professors, alleging they create a divide among students and discriminate based on caste.
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Twitter India Responds to Caste Bias Allegations, Says It Is Impartial
Twitter India on Thursday claimed that it is an impartial platform and does not take action based upon any ideology or political viewpoint.
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Mothers Of Rohit Vemula, Payal Tadvi Move Top Court Over Campus Caste Bias
Mothers of Payal Tadvi and Rohith Vemula who had committed suicide over alleged caste discrimination, have moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions for strict measures to end caste discrimination in university campuses.
-
TCS Faces US Jury Over Why It Fires So Many Americans
India's IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they're not South Asian. The company is set to go on trial Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices ...
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"Caste Bias": Another Dalit BJP Lawmaker From UP Writes To Prime Minister
The count of Dalit lawmakers from the BJP hitting out against their own government for what they call discrimination against Dalits has gone up to four, including three from Uttar Pradesh. The latest entrant to the list, Ashok Kumar Dohrey, who represents Etawah in Lok Sabha.
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: 5 Facts About India's First Woman To Run For Legislative Office
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, the firebrand social reformer, has been honoured with a Google Doodle on her 115th birth anniversary. From persuading Mahatma Gandhi to call upon women to march with him in the Indian Independence Movement to reinvigorating the culture of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay wore several hat...
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Unequal Land Ownership At Root Of Caste Violence, Says Dalit Writer Sujatha Gidla
Mumbai: Education alone will not lift millions of lower-caste Indians out of poverty and oppression as long as land in the country is in the hands of a powerful few, according to a Dalit writer whose memoir chronicles her family’s struggles against caste. Caste-based discrimination was banned in India in 1955, but centuries-old biases persist, ...
