Caste System

Android 13 is still several months away, but a new feature from the company’s upcoming operating system has been spotted online. Users may be able to transfer audio playback to their smart speakers with the help of a new tap-to-transfer feature, according to a new report. The company is also said to be working on a redesigned output picker for an...

Cowboy Bebop, Netflix’s live-action remake of the famous sci-fi anime series, will release November 19. With John Cho in the lead, Cowboy Bebop follows the adventures of a ragtag group of bounty hunters who are chasing down criminals across the Solar System on the Bebop spaceship.

Far Cry 6 — releasing on October 7 — is set on Yara, a fictional Carribean island heavily based on Cuba. The players will be in the shoes of Dani Rajos, who is driven into waging guerrilla warfare against the dictator Castillo. Developed by Ubisoft Toronto, Far Cry 6 will be available on Amazon Luna, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStatio...

It appears that China is ready to widen its horizon when it comes to Moon travel and is taking active steps to enable manned landing on the Moon. A brief news report published by the Xiamen University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on July 1 has pointed at the country aiming to develop a “human landing system for lunar missions.”

On a sunny day in early 2017, Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc.'s chief executive officer, returned to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in West Bengal, to speak before 3,500 students.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti: Today is the birth anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was more than a religious leader; he was a reformer who left a deep impression on India. He spoke out against following empty rituals. Dayanand Saraswati denounced the caste system and encouraged educatio...

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...

Aashram Review: You know you are in Prakash Jha territory when politics, policing, encroachment of forest land, reservation, the caste system are repeatedly invoked. In Aashram, he adds religion.

A day after Dalit Spiritual leader Mahamandelshwar Kanhaiya Prabhunandan Giri questioned his exclusion from the Ayodhya Ram Temple groundbreaking ceremony, BSP president Mayawati today said an invitation would have been in keeping with the "Constitutional intention of setting up a casteless society".

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.

The Centre-controlled Personal Fund Management System (PFMS) is causing delay in direct transfer of scholarship amounts to the bank accounts of students from the Scheduled Castes in Maharashtra, Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde told the council on Monday.

The wedding procession of a Dalit man was taken out under police protection in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Sunday after some so called upper caste people objected to the groom sitting on a horse and threw stones, an official said.

Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan on Thursday reiterated the need to retain the reservation system, saying there was no question of reviewing it so long as social inequality continues to be a harsh reality in the country.

Union minister and BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Monday said reservation is necessary for progress of members of a socially and economically backward community, but the quota system alone cannot ensure their complete development.

DMK chief MK Stalin today expressed concerns over a school question paper asking questions based on caste and religion that he says "propagates discrimination". Sharing the photograph of the question paper on Twitter, Mr Stalin raised concerns about the education system of the country.

Android 13 is still several months away, but a new feature from the company’s upcoming operating system has been spotted online. Users may be able to transfer audio playback to their smart speakers with the help of a new tap-to-transfer feature, according to a new report. The company is also said to be working on a redesigned output picker for an...

Cowboy Bebop, Netflix’s live-action remake of the famous sci-fi anime series, will release November 19. With John Cho in the lead, Cowboy Bebop follows the adventures of a ragtag group of bounty hunters who are chasing down criminals across the Solar System on the Bebop spaceship.

Far Cry 6 — releasing on October 7 — is set on Yara, a fictional Carribean island heavily based on Cuba. The players will be in the shoes of Dani Rajos, who is driven into waging guerrilla warfare against the dictator Castillo. Developed by Ubisoft Toronto, Far Cry 6 will be available on Amazon Luna, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStatio...

It appears that China is ready to widen its horizon when it comes to Moon travel and is taking active steps to enable manned landing on the Moon. A brief news report published by the Xiamen University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on July 1 has pointed at the country aiming to develop a “human landing system for lunar missions.”

On a sunny day in early 2017, Sundar Pichai, Alphabet Inc.'s chief executive officer, returned to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, in West Bengal, to speak before 3,500 students.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti: Today is the birth anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was more than a religious leader; he was a reformer who left a deep impression on India. He spoke out against following empty rituals. Dayanand Saraswati denounced the caste system and encouraged educatio...

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...

Aashram Review: You know you are in Prakash Jha territory when politics, policing, encroachment of forest land, reservation, the caste system are repeatedly invoked. In Aashram, he adds religion.

A day after Dalit Spiritual leader Mahamandelshwar Kanhaiya Prabhunandan Giri questioned his exclusion from the Ayodhya Ram Temple groundbreaking ceremony, BSP president Mayawati today said an invitation would have been in keeping with the "Constitutional intention of setting up a casteless society".

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.

The Centre-controlled Personal Fund Management System (PFMS) is causing delay in direct transfer of scholarship amounts to the bank accounts of students from the Scheduled Castes in Maharashtra, Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde told the council on Monday.

The wedding procession of a Dalit man was taken out under police protection in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Sunday after some so called upper caste people objected to the groom sitting on a horse and threw stones, an official said.

Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan on Thursday reiterated the need to retain the reservation system, saying there was no question of reviewing it so long as social inequality continues to be a harsh reality in the country.

Union minister and BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Monday said reservation is necessary for progress of members of a socially and economically backward community, but the quota system alone cannot ensure their complete development.

DMK chief MK Stalin today expressed concerns over a school question paper asking questions based on caste and religion that he says "propagates discrimination". Sharing the photograph of the question paper on Twitter, Mr Stalin raised concerns about the education system of the country.