Police and government officials on Tuesday met members of the Madiga community and the dominant Lingayats in Karnataka’s Haveri district after a report by a Dalit rights organisation documented shocking caste discrimination practices in the region. The officials warned against […]
In 40% of blocks, SC/ST community constitutes less than 5% of residents A first-of-its-kind snapshot of the distribution of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes community in the city reveals a patchwork of caste-segregated neighbourhoods where socio-economically backward castes are ghettoised. […]
The judicial custody of the four accused in Sulvadi Maramma temple poisoning case has been extended up to January 29. For the first time, the accused were produced before the judge through video-conference in the Principal District and Sessions Court […]
With no will to enforce the 1982 Act, girls from marginalised communities in Karnataka are still trafficked More than thirty-six years after the Karnataka Devadasis (Prohibition of Dedication) Act of 1982 was passed, the State government is yet to issue […]
Former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on Thursday has given an opinion to the state government that it can go ahead with the implementation of the 2017 law giving reservation in promotion to SC/ST employees. “It is clear that the implementation […]
The state government has already approved the grant of Rs 2 lakh to each of these families under the Ambedkar Development Corporation. Mysuru: The Sulawadi temple tragedy in Chamarajanagar is not only being treated as a criminal act by the […]
Consequential Seniority Act came into force in June last The State government being indecisive over the implementation of the Consequential Seniority Act seems to be having an effect on the morale of employees — both general category and those belonging […]
A group of girls from two different hostels in Bangalore University (BU) Jnanabharathi campus indulged in a better physical fight over food served at the hostel. A group of students staying at the new hostel came to the old hostel […]
Udupi, Jan 7: Dalit thinker Jayan Malpe called on the Dalit employees to repay the gratitude for the reservation proposed by Ambedkar, which made the Dalit community that was living a life worse than that of a dog to sit […]
Speaking with TNM, Whitefield DCP Abdul Ahad denied wrongdoing on part of the police. Three days after a 25-year-old Bengaluru-based Dalit lawyer Dharani committed suicide allegedly due to continuous harassment by her local corporator and associates, a section of lawyers […]
