Dalits

A 23-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by her neighbour in a village Uttar Pradesh's Ballia, police said on Tuesday.

A 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly strangled to death after gang-rape in a village under Mahavan Police Station area of Mathura district.

According to a complaint filed by Jayanthi, the mother of a class five student, the "HM Ms Geetha Rani singled out only SC children to clean the toilet".

A 15-year-old Dalit girl has been allegedly raped by two minors of her village in Pratapgarh District, police said on Monday.

A Dalit man was allegedly beaten up and forced to wear a garland made of shoes by three men on Friday in Rajasthan's Sirohi district, police said.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said Mulayam Singh Yadav had taught the poor, Dalits and the oppressed to live with honour and amity.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today approached the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order granting bail to Dalit rights activist and scholar Anand Teltumbde.

"The water tank was cleaned, but I can't confirm if it was with gau mutra," IE Basvaraj, the local jurisdictional Tahseeldar told NDTV, adding that no one had seen the woman drinking water from the tank, and she hasn't been traced so far.

A Dalit gangrape survivor has alleged that she was subjected to casteist slurs and threatened by family members of one of the accused to withdraw the case, police said on Monday.

Day after 9-hour questioning in alleged mining scam, Hemant Soren says case "an attempt to suppress tribal, Dalit, backward communities, minorities"

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) keeps attacking the Constitution everyday as it does not want to accept that Dalits, tribals and the poor should get rights.

Since everything is possible in politics, I can think of a reunion (of both parties) only if he tenders an apology publicly, clarified Mr Paras, Union Minister for Food Processing, and younger brother of late Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan.

A five-year-old deaf and mute Dalit girl was allegedly raped by a man living in her neighbourhood in Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal, police said on Saturday.

The Centre has defended the exclusion of Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims from the list of Scheduled Castes, saying historical data shows no backwardness or oppression was ever faced by them.

Jignesh Mevani, Vadgam MLA and working president of Gujarat Congress, is one of the most prominent Dalit faces in the state.

A 23-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by her neighbour in a village Uttar Pradesh's Ballia, police said on Tuesday.

A 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly strangled to death after gang-rape in a village under Mahavan Police Station area of Mathura district.

According to a complaint filed by Jayanthi, the mother of a class five student, the "HM Ms Geetha Rani singled out only SC children to clean the toilet".

A 15-year-old Dalit girl has been allegedly raped by two minors of her village in Pratapgarh District, police said on Monday.

A Dalit man was allegedly beaten up and forced to wear a garland made of shoes by three men on Friday in Rajasthan's Sirohi district, police said.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said Mulayam Singh Yadav had taught the poor, Dalits and the oppressed to live with honour and amity.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today approached the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order granting bail to Dalit rights activist and scholar Anand Teltumbde.

"The water tank was cleaned, but I can't confirm if it was with gau mutra," IE Basvaraj, the local jurisdictional Tahseeldar told NDTV, adding that no one had seen the woman drinking water from the tank, and she hasn't been traced so far.

A Dalit gangrape survivor has alleged that she was subjected to casteist slurs and threatened by family members of one of the accused to withdraw the case, police said on Monday.

Day after 9-hour questioning in alleged mining scam, Hemant Soren says case "an attempt to suppress tribal, Dalit, backward communities, minorities"

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) keeps attacking the Constitution everyday as it does not want to accept that Dalits, tribals and the poor should get rights.

Since everything is possible in politics, I can think of a reunion (of both parties) only if he tenders an apology publicly, clarified Mr Paras, Union Minister for Food Processing, and younger brother of late Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan.

A five-year-old deaf and mute Dalit girl was allegedly raped by a man living in her neighbourhood in Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal, police said on Saturday.

The Centre has defended the exclusion of Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims from the list of Scheduled Castes, saying historical data shows no backwardness or oppression was ever faced by them.

Jignesh Mevani, Vadgam MLA and working president of Gujarat Congress, is one of the most prominent Dalit faces in the state.