P UDUCHERRY: The members of a Dalit community have sought the intervention of the government to complete the construction of a temple in Vinayagam Pattu village in Mannadipet commune.

The Karnataka BJP has slammed the Congress government over the misuse of funds reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST), saying that "the ...

The works were suspended following opposition from a section of non-dalit people of the village. The Dalits started building the temple after the Muthumariamman temple, constructed 18 years ago ...

The petition wanted the court to order to end discriminatory practices in the parish, which included maintaining two cemeteries in the parish – one for the upper caste people and the other for Dalit ...

A 35-year-old Dalit man named Amit Balmiki was stabbed to death in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday (February 19, 2025), police said. Balmiki's body was recovered from Shahdabber village ...

In Mathura district, a confrontation between upper-caste men and Dalit residents in Bati village in Jait area of the district ...

India’s caste system – which saw at the bottom the Dalit people (untouchables) who were considered so low as to be outside its rigid classifications – was officially dismantled in 1947.

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

It was the year 2000 that saw a new dawn . It was not merely a turn of the calendar . As the world reveled in the 2000th anniversary of Jesus Christ rsquo;s birth, the Indian Church joined the global ...

The Karnataka BJP has launched a scathing attack on the Congress-led state government, accusing it of diverting funds meant for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and warning that the ...

Two Thakur community members were arrested in Meerut for assaulting a Dalit wedding procession over DJ music, prompting calls for justice and protests. Two people belonging to the Thakur community ...