Dalit Unrest

A Dalit groom was forced off his horse during his wedding procession last week in a small village in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district. The Dalits retaliated and got 12 people from the upper castes arrested under the SC/ST Act for forcing the bridegroom to dismount.

In wake of Bharat bandh and reports of unrest, Jet Airways today said it was waiving off penalties for change of dates and providing refunds on all confirmed tickets booked today for flights operating to and out of Chandigarh, Patna and Amritsar.

A case has been filed in Pune against Gujarat Dalit leader and legislator Jignesh Mevani and Umar Khalid of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, who have been accused of making provocative speeches triggering the caste tension between Dalits and upper caste Marathas that has swept across Maharashtra for the last four days. Two people have died duri...

Peace returned to Andhra Pradesh's Garagaparru village, where a dispute over installation of an Ambedkar statue had led to acrimony between Dalits and an upper caste group over the last three months.

Balubhai Sarvaiya, whose two sons were among the four young Dalits thrashed in Una after wrongly being accused of killing a cow, needed a group of policemen to escort him to his village last evening.

The video of two Muslim women being assaulted by a mob in Madhya Pradesh over beef rumours - the latest incident involving cow vigilantism - saw a screaming match in Parliament between the government and the opposition.

The mysterious death of a 50-year-old Dalit man has led to tension in the Erode district of Tamil Nadu.

A Dalit groom was forced off his horse during his wedding procession last week in a small village in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district. The Dalits retaliated and got 12 people from the upper castes arrested under the SC/ST Act for forcing the bridegroom to dismount.

In wake of Bharat bandh and reports of unrest, Jet Airways today said it was waiving off penalties for change of dates and providing refunds on all confirmed tickets booked today for flights operating to and out of Chandigarh, Patna and Amritsar.

A case has been filed in Pune against Gujarat Dalit leader and legislator Jignesh Mevani and Umar Khalid of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, who have been accused of making provocative speeches triggering the caste tension between Dalits and upper caste Marathas that has swept across Maharashtra for the last four days. Two people have died duri...

Peace returned to Andhra Pradesh's Garagaparru village, where a dispute over installation of an Ambedkar statue had led to acrimony between Dalits and an upper caste group over the last three months.

Balubhai Sarvaiya, whose two sons were among the four young Dalits thrashed in Una after wrongly being accused of killing a cow, needed a group of policemen to escort him to his village last evening.

The video of two Muslim women being assaulted by a mob in Madhya Pradesh over beef rumours - the latest incident involving cow vigilantism - saw a screaming match in Parliament between the government and the opposition.

The mysterious death of a 50-year-old Dalit man has led to tension in the Erode district of Tamil Nadu.