Jind: A local journalist of Narwana town of Jind district was booked for criminal defamation and under the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on the complaint of former MLA and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) leader Pirthi Singh Numberdar. […]
ROHTAK: In the absence of migrant labourers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh during the paddy season, the women labourers from Scheduled Caste community in the villages are spearheading transplantation work in farms. Sharmila Devi, a labourer engaged in paddy transplantation […]
HUMAN RIGHTS activist Sukhvinder Nara has approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking a CBI probe into the death of an undertrial in judicial custody in Yamunanagar district in April this year. According to Nara, Yamunanagar resident Raman Valmiki, […]
Chandigarh, The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that the use of casteist words during a phone call, away from public view, does not constitute an offence under the SC/ST Act. Justice Harnaresh Singh Gill passed the order on […]
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that casteist remarks made over mobile phone against a member of the Scheduled Caste community does not constitute any offence under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of […]
An inspirational teenager who managed to bike 1200km home while carrying her injured father in the saddle has been offered a chance to try out for the national cycling team. Jyoti Kumari, a 15-year-old Dalit girl, managed to cover the […]
The recent conversion to Hinduism of almost 250 people part of an estimated 30-40 Muslim families in Haryana’s Hisar district, is at first glance related to systemic stigmatisation of Muslims in the wake of the Tablighi Jamaat incident. But at […]
The state government issued transfer and posting orders of three IAS officers on Saturday. Among IAS officers, Sanjeev Verma, Director and Special Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs, has been posted as Managing Director, Haryana Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation […]
HISAR: About 250 members of 40 Muslim families from Bidhmira village in Haryana’s Hisar district embraced Hinduism on Friday and performed the last rites of a 80-yearold woman according to Hindu customs. Earlier, about 35 members of six Muslim families […]
This is the 33rd report in a series that provides glimpses into the impact of COVID-19-related policies on life in rural India. The series, commissioned by the Society for Social and Economic Research, comprises reports by various scholars who have […]
