The incident reportedly took place on Monday when the boy, a resident of Mehsana, had reached a government school at a village in Chanasma taluka of Patan district to appear in the Class XII Board exam. Patan police have arrested […]
Ruling out the rumours of a connection of an upper caste girl with whom Mitkumar is allegedly having an affair as the reason behind this incident, his mother told this paper that it is being spread by the accused against […]
Mevani is the first politician to visit the Dalits, whose morning-to-evening hunger strike continued for the ninth day on Tuesday. Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani on Tuesday visited the victims of the 2016 Una Dalit atrocity case and extended them his […]
The opposition is similar to the 2015 objection raised by Hindu residents of Sayajipura area of the city against the allotment of affordable housing scheme flats to displaced Muslim residents from Kalyan Nagar slums. Bharat Shah, who was then the […]
The Dalit families, who have been on a hunger strike outside the office of sub-divisional magistrate of Una since March 11, are demanding agriculture land from the government for their subsistence. Even as the hunger strike carried out by Dalit […]
AHMEDABAD: For arresting a woman after sunset, Gujarat high court has directed the state government to pay Rs 2,500 for breach of law that stipulates a woman cannot be arrested during night without prior sanction of a judicial magistrate. The […]
Rajkot: A man was booked on Monday for allegedly raping and impregnating a 22-year-old Dalit woman whose foetus he allegedly got aborted about a month ago in Jamjodhpur of Jamnagar district. The accused was identified as Vasant Thakor, a resident […]
The number of cases rose 32 per cent from 1,147 in 2013 to 1,515 in 2017, according to the response by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Ishwar Parmar. The response given to an unstarred question by Congress MLA Pravinbhai Maru […]
At the conclave, the Gujarat government promised to provide full support for the creation of an SC/ST hub to support these activities. The National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) on Sunday held a day-long regional conclave in Vadodara to promote micro, […]
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat has registered a disquieting spike in cases of atrocities against Dalits with every passing year — 2018 alone accounted for 1,545 cases, the highest since 2001. According to the figures on atrocities against Dalits obtained through an RTI […]
