Dalit

A 16-year-old Dalit boy has died of a gunshot wound he suffered during celebratory firing at a marriage function at a village here in Uttar Pradesh, a police official said on Sunday.

Three Dalit women were allegedly beaten up by some persons belonging to the Gurjar community in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh over goats entering a farm plot, a police official said on Friday.

Mr Kunjaman was a professor of economics at Kerala University for over two decades.

A court here on Friday awarded life imprisonment to man convicted of raping a twenty-year-old Dalit woman on the pretext of giving her a job.

A court on Tuesday acquitted Congress legislator and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and six others in a 2016 case registered against them for unlawful assembly and rioting.

A 45-year-old Dalit woman died on Monday, a day after she was allegedly thrashed by two men angered by her refusal to convince her son to withdraw an old case registered against them under the Atrocities Act in Gujarat's Bhavnagar, an officer said.

A 14-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly thrashed by some people in a village in Uttar Pradesh under the Sujanganj Police Station, an officer said on Sunday.

A case was filed against a businesswoman and at least six others for allegedly assaulting a 21-year-old Dalit man, who worked in her company for a fortnight, and forcing him to apologise by holding her footwear in his mouth.

MLAs of Telangana's Bharat Rashtra Samithi or BRS, collect 30 per cent commission under the state's "Dalit Bandhu" scheme, BJP national president JP Nadda has said the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led government should be sent packing after t

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim of working for Dalits, saying the BJP fielded an MLA who was refused a Congress ticket for the Rajasthan Assembly polls for allegedly thrashing a Dalit engineer.

The High Court of Karnataka has sentenced 10 people on seven counts with sentences ranging from two months to one year for assaulting members of Schedule Castes for complaining against upper caste people.

In his second visit to Telangana in less than a week, ahead of the Assembly elections, PM Narendra Modi on Saturday made a strong outreach to the Dalit community, particularly the Madigas, who make up 60 per cent of the Scheduled Caste community.

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi speaks about crimes against women in states not ruled by her party but keeps quiet on the atrocities faced by Dalit women in Rajasthan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of "hating" Dalits today, reiterating the allegation started during the Presidential elections.

Asserting that the BRS stands for the welfare of Dalits, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday alleged it was the Congress party which defeated Dr BR Ambedkar in a parliamentary election (in 1950s).

A 16-year-old Dalit boy has died of a gunshot wound he suffered during celebratory firing at a marriage function at a village here in Uttar Pradesh, a police official said on Sunday.

Three Dalit women were allegedly beaten up by some persons belonging to the Gurjar community in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh over goats entering a farm plot, a police official said on Friday.

Mr Kunjaman was a professor of economics at Kerala University for over two decades.

A court here on Friday awarded life imprisonment to man convicted of raping a twenty-year-old Dalit woman on the pretext of giving her a job.

A court on Tuesday acquitted Congress legislator and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and six others in a 2016 case registered against them for unlawful assembly and rioting.

A 45-year-old Dalit woman died on Monday, a day after she was allegedly thrashed by two men angered by her refusal to convince her son to withdraw an old case registered against them under the Atrocities Act in Gujarat's Bhavnagar, an officer said.

A 14-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly thrashed by some people in a village in Uttar Pradesh under the Sujanganj Police Station, an officer said on Sunday.

A case was filed against a businesswoman and at least six others for allegedly assaulting a 21-year-old Dalit man, who worked in her company for a fortnight, and forcing him to apologise by holding her footwear in his mouth.

MLAs of Telangana's Bharat Rashtra Samithi or BRS, collect 30 per cent commission under the state's "Dalit Bandhu" scheme, BJP national president JP Nadda has said the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led government should be sent packing after t

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim of working for Dalits, saying the BJP fielded an MLA who was refused a Congress ticket for the Rajasthan Assembly polls for allegedly thrashing a Dalit engineer.

The High Court of Karnataka has sentenced 10 people on seven counts with sentences ranging from two months to one year for assaulting members of Schedule Castes for complaining against upper caste people.

In his second visit to Telangana in less than a week, ahead of the Assembly elections, PM Narendra Modi on Saturday made a strong outreach to the Dalit community, particularly the Madigas, who make up 60 per cent of the Scheduled Caste community.

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi speaks about crimes against women in states not ruled by her party but keeps quiet on the atrocities faced by Dalit women in Rajasthan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of "hating" Dalits today, reiterating the allegation started during the Presidential elections.

Asserting that the BRS stands for the welfare of Dalits, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday alleged it was the Congress party which defeated Dr BR Ambedkar in a parliamentary election (in 1950s).