KALABURAGI: A 15-year-old Dalit girl committed suicide by drowning in a well after she was accused of stealing a mobile phone from her hostel premises. The girl took her life after she was allegedly beaten up and insulted by the […]
Salon owners in upper caste areas of K Shettahalli would refuse Dalit customers fearing that they may lose upper caste clients. MYSURU: At a time when instances of Dalits being oppressed by upper castes abound even in this day and […]
A few members of the Dalit community were dragged out of their homes and thrashed mercilessly by upper-caste men in Karnataka’s Nelamangala allegedly after they refused to dig a grave. The incident took place in Nelamangala on September 8, said […]
The Vokkaligas allegedly entered Dalit homes, dragged them out by their hair, and assaulted them with iron rods. For daring to stand up for their rights and refusing to do demeaning work for dominant caste families, a community of Dalits […]
Karnataka State Dalit Sangharsh Samiti will organise a three-day State-level convention at Almatti in Basavanabagewadi taluk in Vijayapura district from September 13. State convener of the samiti D.G. Sagar, addressing presspersons in Kalaburagi on Monday, said that eminent progressive thinkers […]
Kundapur, Aug 31: The court here pronounced the judgement in which it Hindu priest as not guilty. The priest had come for a wedding programme of Dalit community but had refused to conduct wedding rituals. Priest Krishna Murthy Bhat alias […]
When the 35 Dalit families reached the temple to offer prayers, they were humiliated and abused with casteist slurs. Thirty five Dalit families were humiliated, abused, and denied entry into a temple in Karnataka’s Hassan district on Sunday by members […]
Mysuru: A 30-year-old MBA graduate has been awarded death penalty for brutally killing his girlfriend, a BCom student, at RT Nagar in the city nearly five years ago. The capital punishment, a first in Mysuru in the recent past, will […]
Activists are unhappy with compromise; they say it’s a ploy Tension prevailed at Kadaga village in Hassan taluk when “upper” caste people opposed the entry to members of the Scheduled Caste into the recently renovated Kalleshwara temple of the Muzrai […]
A case has been registered against a man for allegedly pronouncing triple talaq to his wife in Belagavi district in Karnataka, police said on Sunday. Ismail Khan alias Amin Sharif Khan has been booked on a complaint by his 23-year-old […]
