The Chennai-based startup provides robotic solutions for the sanitation industry, such as robots for cleaning septic tank cleaning and pipeline detection. SRISHTI MAGAN Incubated at IIT Madras, the startup won the award for the Best on Campus category at ET […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tamil Nadu has demanded action against DMK MLA from Chennai’s RK Nagar constituency, alleging that the ruling party MLA was present when a corporation worker was forced to do manual scavenging. Attacking the RK […]
The origin of Dalits in the Indian caste system By Somashekar N The concept of categorizing humans based on their professions arose from the Early Vedic Period (1500 – 600 BC), where there were three major classifications:- Teaching profession:- Brahmins. […]
The Court expressed sadness that, despite the country having been independent for 75 years, low-income individuals still needed to do manual scavenging duties. By Shabnam Jahan In its ruling in Court on its own Motion v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi […]
The origin of Dalits in the Indian caste system By Somashekar N The concept of categorizing humans based on their professions arose from the Early Vedic Period (1500 – 600 BC), where there were three major classifications:- Teaching profession:- Brahmins. […]
The origin of Dalits in the Indian caste system By Somashekar N The concept of categorizing humans based on their professions arose from the Early Vedic Period (1500 – 600 BC), where there were three major classifications:- Teaching profession:- Brahmins. […]
The Court expressed sadness that, despite the country having been independent for 75 years, low-income individuals still needed to do manual scavenging duties. By Shabnam Jahan In its ruling in Court on its own Motion v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi […]
In another instance of caste discrimination in Karnataka, a 46-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten up by members of a dominant caste on October 7, in Bangarpet Taluk’s Dodduru Village for performing puja at a shrine. Budikote police have filed […]
A few days back I was at Azim Premji University (APU), Bangalore in order to attend an event organized by Dalit-Bahujan students from the Savitri Ambedkar Cultural club. During the conversation after the event, they shared with me their experiences […]
GURUGRAM: Protests continued for a second day over the deaths of four sanitation workers who died on Wednesday after inhaling poisonous gases as they entered a sewer tank at a Faridabad hospital without any protective gear. The incident also evoked […]
