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Haridwar: Casteist slurs, abuses thrown at Olympic star Vandana Katariya’s family
arun Posted On August 5, 2021


HARIDWAR: Hours after India went down to Argentina in the women’s hockey semi-final at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, two upper caste men began circling Vandana Katariya’s home at Roshnabad village in Haridwar. They burst crackers, danced in mock celebration […]


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Dalit minor allegedly raped, forcibly cremated in Delhi: Opposition slams Amit Shah
arun Posted On August 4, 2021


Hundreds of locals, including the victim’s parents, staged a protest for a second day on Tuesday near the site of the incident in Old Nangal area in southwest Delhi. Opposition parties on Tuesday targeted Home Minister Amit Shah over the […]


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How Madhya Pradesh cops, ABVP ‘pressured’ varsity to cancel scientific temper webinar
arun Posted On August 4, 2021


An online petition, signed* by over a thousand citizens — mainly activists and academics — titled “Attack on scientific temper”, floated by the civil rights group Anhad, has strongly protested against  to use of administration to cancel an International Webinar […]


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It’s time for NSA Ajit Doval to break his silence on the ‘non-issue’ of Pegasus
arun Posted On August 1, 2021


He heads National Security apparatus. But even as Pegasus spyware scandal rocks world capitals, India’s NSA has maintained a Sphinx-like silence. One wonders why. Can a JPC make him break his silence? By Uttam Sengupta It is not just the […]


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School enrolment data indicates 45% OBCs, 19% Dalits in India
arun Posted On July 31, 2021


NEW DELHI: We might not know what proportion of India’s population are OBCs with the idea of the caste census jettisoned, but the caste composition of primary school students is readily available and a rough indicator. It shows that 45% […]


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No deaths reported due to manual scavenging in the last five years, says Centre
arun Posted On July 30, 2021


In the Budget Session, the government had said that 340 people had died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the five years till December 31, 2020. The Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment said this in the Rajya Sabha […]


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KCR promises yet another sop ‘Dalit Bima’
arun Posted On July 29, 2021


New scheme ‘Dalit Bima’, to provide Rs 5 lakh free insurance coverage to Dalit families HYDERABAD: After announcing the new scheme Dalit Bandhu on the lines of Rythu Bandhu recently, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Monday promised yet another […]


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