In 2012, while researching fishers’ rights to the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary on the eastern coast of Odisha, I stumbled upon an unexpected conflict. Odiya fishers were accusing long-settled Bengali fishers of being undocumented migrants who had destroyed the ecosystem with […]
Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 18 (IANS): The Muslim college girls in Bulandshahr district’s Khurja have complained that they were being harassed by miscreants and forced to wear burqa. The girls, on Monday, met the Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Isha Priya […]
The Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that 100 per cent digital/online Haj process in India has fulfilled the dream of “Ease of Doing Haj” for the Indian Muslims. He was addressing a training of trainers […]
Over 50% inmates in Tihar prison belong to Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and from Other Backward Classes (OBC), as per Prison Statistics 2018. The data was recently shared by the Ministry of Home Affairs in response to a question in […]
A Dalit youth was attacked with a trident by four youths for touching food without washing his hands in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district. The incident took place in the Dokati village on Saturday night where a ‘bhandara’ (community feast) was […]
New Delhi: A Dalit army jawan’s wedding procession was reportedly disrupted in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Sunday by stone pelting from the Thakor Koli community, because the groom was riding a mare. The stone-pelting occurred despite police protection for the […]
New Delhi: A 24-year-old Dalit man was beaten to death in Tamil Nadu after he was found squatting on the roadside to relieve himself. Police have arrested seven people, four men and three women, on Friday after videos of the […]
Kanpur Dehat, UP: On February 13, Kusuma Devi, a middle-aged housewife from Mangta village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur was in the kitchen with her 16-year-old daughter when she heard loud noises outside. She immediately said to her daughter, “Ye Thakur […]
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday asked the Opposition parties in the state assembly not to add fuel to fire by politicking over the attack on Dalits in Mangta village of Kanpur Dehat (Ramabainagar) amid the demand for a judicial […]
DEHRADUN: National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has sent a letter to Doon district magistrate (DM) and senior superintendent of police (SSP) asking them to remain personally present in the commission on Wednesday for the hearing of a case relating […]
