Though the issues concerning people hardly found any mention during the electioneering, it was the Atta-Dal scheme that most of the Dalits were seen concerned over during the polling in several villages on Wednesday. The polling booths in Dalit localities […]
After playing Kabaddi for over 24 years and earning fame in the state, 42-year-old Kabaddi star Soma Singh Gharachon, who failed to get a government job and spent his life in poverty, is all set to contest the Zila Parishad […]
The Scheduled Caste (SC) students under the banner of Punjab Students Union protested at the District Administration Complex against college management officials for asking them to pay tuition fees. The students from Lyallpur Khalsa College, HMV College and Doaba College […]
Accuses them of manhandling a parent, using casteist remarks A large number of parents of schoolchildren studying in HVM School, Subhash Nagar, Ludhiana, staged a protest outside the Tibba Road police station here on Monday. They sought action against the […]
Dalit leader Kedar Singh Jindan was crushed by a Scorpio on Friday The inability of the government to provide security to the weak and Dalits is responsible for the gruesome killing of Dalit leader Kedar Singh Jindan, who was crushed […]
In the run-up to the 1931 Census, the enumerators were confronted with new castes emerging from the untouchable communities. Suddenly, the untouchable castes, named Churas and Chamars, of Punjab when asked about their caste name, started mentioning that they were […]
Ludhiana: A day after the alleged assault on a woman employee of Municipal Corporation, allegedly by a local BJP worker, cops failed to trace the local leader, even as members of several SC/ST welfare organizations came out in support of […]
ABOHAR: A member of the Abohar municipal council, Ganesh Sablania attempted suicide on Saturday after alleged humiliation by cops at the Abohar Sadar police station. The Congress activist consumed poison and was rushed to Abohar civil hospital, from where he […]
Shimla: Murder of social activist, dalit leader and high court advocate Kedar Singh Jindan in Bakras area of Sirmaur district on Friday led to public outrage across Himachal Pradesh. It is being alleged that Jindan was first attacked with sticks […]
Weekend reads The recent arrests of activists in connection to the Bhima Koregaon violence are not isolated cases, argues Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express. They are just one element in the roduction of a new and dangerous ideological complex. India’s refusal […]
