During a protest in Bihar, the founder of a party comprising IIT alumni, was roughed up and his cadre manhandled badly. The response by the police was allegedly so violent that Naveen Kumar, co-founder of the Bahujan Azad Party (BAP) […]
Sitamarhi has a long history of electing Muslim representatives. So why is nobody standing up for them now? On October 20, Sitamarhi in northern Bihar burned once again. Just as in October 1992, it began with a procession on Durga […]
MUZAFFARPUR/BUXAR: A minor girl and a 40-year-old woman from Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh were allegedly gang-raped in two separate incidents in Muzaffarpur and Buxar in the last 24 hours. The minor girl, a Class IX student from scheduled caste community, […]
The victim’s granddaughter said three villagers forcibly entered their house at night and attacked the old woman. 70-Year-old Dalit Woman Branded Witch, Tongue Chopped Off in Bihar; Manhunt on for Trio Representative image Patna: A 70-year-old Dalit woman’s tongue was […]
The Bihar schoolgirls who took on a group of boys over lewd comments were beaten up. It took SC intervention for authorities to wake up. It was not caste, it was not class. It was not Hindu vs Muslim, nor […]
The commission said it has issued notices to the chief secretary and the director general of police (DGP) of Bihar. NEW DELHI: The NHRC has sent a notice to the Bihar government and DGP in connection with over 30 girl […]
PATNA: Thirty-four girl students of a residential school in Bihar had to pay a heavy price on Saturday evening for opposing routine sexual advances made by some local youths. The girls were thrashed so badly by the boys, their family […]
A Dalit woman was among two persons shot dead while another woman was injured in a gunfight between two groups over sharing irrigation water at a village in Bihar’s Nawada district on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Indu Devi […]
Mumbai: There have been 52 recorded deaths due to starvation across the country in the past four years, according to a report compiled by development economists and a fact-finding committee of a non-governmental organisation — the Right To Food Campaign. […]
The JD(U) will organise its Patna district level ‘Dalit-Mahadalit’ conference on October 3 to create awareness on all government schemes that helped in empowering the weaker sections of the society, senior party leader Shyam Rajak said Sunday. The conference will […]
