AURANGABAD: Nanded principal district judge Deepak Dholakiya on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old man to life imprisonment for murdering a worker in February 2016 over old enmity. “The convict, Alikhan Mukhtarkhan, has also been slapped with a fine of Rs 10,000,” […]
Lakhs from the Dalit community gather at the Vijay Stambh (victory pillar) in the Koregaon Bhima region each year on January 1 to commemorate the Observers have pointed out that tensions may be likely to prevail in the vicinity of […]
Mumbai: In a setback to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha, a special UAPA court in Pune Tuesday rejected his anticipatory bail application (ABA) in the Elgaar Parishad case. The court not only rejected Mr Navlakha’s ABA but also refused to […]
‘Whenever Dalits have agitated on the streets, the government has blamed Naxalites.’ “The violence at Bhima-Koregaon on January 1, 2018 was promoted by the State. It was a pre-planned, systematic, attack on Buddhists by Brahmanical forces,” according to Professor Jogendra […]
According to the statement of Tadvi’s cousin, who is a sub-inspector, the mother of the deceased, Abeda, had told him on May 11 that Tadvi was being increasingly harassed by her seniors. A STATEMENT that was part of the additional […]
Kawade, an MLC, appeared before the inquiry commission after he filed an affidavit before it. In it, he had blamed Hindutva leaders Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide for the Koregaon Bhima violence of January 1, 2018. Infamous Mumbai underworld don […]
Translating is a specialised job, but Maitreya isn’t limited by the idea of setting high standards in translation. He rejects it as ‘extremely casteist’ When Yogesh Maitreya discovered the works of noted contemporary Marathi poet Loknath Yashwant in 2013, he […]
Rohit Golekar was accused of killing a 17-year-old Dalit boy in 2014. He is now one of the prime accused in the murder of a Pardhi man. Mumbai: The familiar spectre of caste violence has once again reared its head […]
The cops arrived soon and the trio was apprehended near Powai. However, the cops released them after only issuing a notice against them. A transwoman in Mumbai was physically and sexually assaulted in a restaurant in Andheri on 23rd September. […]
Nandurbar (Maharashtra): This woman from a remote village of Maharashtra is already among the privileged few in today’s India who landed a government job soon after graduation. She however was not content with what she had, and dreamt big. But, […]
