Caste Discrimination

The Madras High Court has suggested to the Tamil Nadu government to ensure common burial/ cremation grounds throughout the state for members of all communities.

Justice Chandrachud made these remarks while delivering the 13th B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture on "Conceptualising Marginalisation: Agency, Assertion, and Personhood".

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

In a bid to obliterate the signs of discrimination against the scheduled caste students, a senior district official rushed to the primary school Dodarpur in Bewar block and held a meeting with the village pradhan, her husband, villagers and parents.

As part of UGC advisories in addressing caste-based discrimination against students, the Commission has urged the higher educational institutions (HEIs) to constitute web pages, form committees for dealing with complaints with respect to discrimination against the students belonging to SCs and STs.

Indian Matchmaking has been renewed for season 2 at Netflix. The problematic series was nominated at the 2021 Emmys. Netflix also announced an open casting call for Indian Matchmaking and other reality series.

Asked if the professor has formally resigned and if he has made allegations of such discrimination in his letter of "resignation", IIT-M said: "..Any complaint received by the institute from employees and students is attended to promptly through the established process of redressing grievances."

Three Rajasthan Congress MLAs, who were part of the rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot last year, on Friday accused the state government of discriminating against the legislators of Scheduled Castes and minority communities, with one of them threatening to resign.

The Ambedkar International Center (AIC), a US-based organization fighting against caste discrimination on Tuesday approached the California Supreme Court to be admitted as an amicus curiae in a case that involves caste discrimination in the workplace.

A photograph showing an elected woman panchayat leader sitting on the floor during a meeting she ought to preside over - while others sit on chairs - has sparked outrage in Tamil Nadu and exposed the deeply entrenched discriminative practices

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who is from Uttar Pradesh, says the caste system is deeply embedded in the villages and even he has not been spared discrimination, despite his fame in the movies. Describing the Hathras incident as "very unfortunate", the critically-acclaimed actor said in an interview that in villages, caste divides are a reality that i...

California regulators sued Cisco Systems on Tuesday, accusing it of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to be harassed by two managers because he was from a lower Indian caste than them.

Asserting that the government's guiding light is the Constitution of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the government does not discriminate between faith, gender, caste, creed or language and that it is led by the desire to empower 130 crore Indians.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to the Union Health Ministry asking it to conduct an immediate inquiry into the alleged suicide attempt by a woman doctor at the AIIMS in New Delhi apparently over caste and gender based discrimination and harassment.

As the number of coronavirus cases linked to Tablighi Jamaat continue to grow, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday urged people to put aside caste, creed and religion and unite in the fight against the COVID-19 virus

The Madras High Court has suggested to the Tamil Nadu government to ensure common burial/ cremation grounds throughout the state for members of all communities.

Justice Chandrachud made these remarks while delivering the 13th B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture on "Conceptualising Marginalisation: Agency, Assertion, and Personhood".

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

In a bid to obliterate the signs of discrimination against the scheduled caste students, a senior district official rushed to the primary school Dodarpur in Bewar block and held a meeting with the village pradhan, her husband, villagers and parents.

As part of UGC advisories in addressing caste-based discrimination against students, the Commission has urged the higher educational institutions (HEIs) to constitute web pages, form committees for dealing with complaints with respect to discrimination against the students belonging to SCs and STs.

Indian Matchmaking has been renewed for season 2 at Netflix. The problematic series was nominated at the 2021 Emmys. Netflix also announced an open casting call for Indian Matchmaking and other reality series.

Asked if the professor has formally resigned and if he has made allegations of such discrimination in his letter of "resignation", IIT-M said: "..Any complaint received by the institute from employees and students is attended to promptly through the established process of redressing grievances."

Three Rajasthan Congress MLAs, who were part of the rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot last year, on Friday accused the state government of discriminating against the legislators of Scheduled Castes and minority communities, with one of them threatening to resign.

The Ambedkar International Center (AIC), a US-based organization fighting against caste discrimination on Tuesday approached the California Supreme Court to be admitted as an amicus curiae in a case that involves caste discrimination in the workplace.

A photograph showing an elected woman panchayat leader sitting on the floor during a meeting she ought to preside over - while others sit on chairs - has sparked outrage in Tamil Nadu and exposed the deeply entrenched discriminative practices

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who is from Uttar Pradesh, says the caste system is deeply embedded in the villages and even he has not been spared discrimination, despite his fame in the movies. Describing the Hathras incident as "very unfortunate", the critically-acclaimed actor said in an interview that in villages, caste divides are a reality that i...

California regulators sued Cisco Systems on Tuesday, accusing it of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to be harassed by two managers because he was from a lower Indian caste than them.

Asserting that the government's guiding light is the Constitution of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the government does not discriminate between faith, gender, caste, creed or language and that it is led by the desire to empower 130 crore Indians.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to the Union Health Ministry asking it to conduct an immediate inquiry into the alleged suicide attempt by a woman doctor at the AIIMS in New Delhi apparently over caste and gender based discrimination and harassment.

As the number of coronavirus cases linked to Tablighi Jamaat continue to grow, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday urged people to put aside caste, creed and religion and unite in the fight against the COVID-19 virus