Dalit organisations have been alleging that during auctions of ‘shamlat’ land in several villages, landlords send their servants to make bids. They say landlords, in connivance with higher-ups, get cancelled auctions in many villages repeatedly when their dummy bidders fail […]
Jalandhar. (Punjab): Hindering the traffic for over two hours on the road leading to the District Administrative Complex (DAC), hundreds of SC and ST students from various colleges of the city today held a sit-in dharna in front of the […]
Allege miscreants damaged posters at Ram Tirth to malign their image The three-hour protest at one of the busiest route on GT Road was held against an alleged act of miscreancy by some members of the community at Valmiki pilgrim […]
A Raikot man has approached the SC/ST Commission over two contradictory reports issued by police pertaining to his criminal record. Gursewak Singh, 32, a Dalit from Raikot, had applied for the post of numberdar after death of the person who […]
Sangrur, October 8. Seven days have passed since a rape case was registered on the complaint of a Dalit woman, both accused have been roaming freely. They have allegedly threatened the victim to kidnap her daughter. The victim today submitted […]
The Punjab and Haryana HC took note of media reports that despite a ban on manual scavenging, the practice is still going on unabated in many parts of the two states. The Punjab and Haryana high court has reiterated the […]
In 2013, the Punjab Pollution Control Board sealed a factory after one Vijay Kumar accused it of discharging effluent into the groundwater near his house in Phagwara. The factory owner filed an FIR against Vijay for providing wrong information, which […]
Members of the Dalit community, under the banner of the Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC), staged a protest against the state government over non-fulfilment of their demands in Patiala on Monday. Thousands gathered at the Patiala grain market and started […]
While the Dalits succeeded in getting land for three years in Dhandiwal and Mulowal village, the deadlock continues at Tolewal village where five acres’ land meant for Dalits could not be auctioned till now. A total of 1,148 complaints of […]
Campaign against burning Ravan effigies picks up pace CHANDIGARH: Dalits in Punjab, mainly Valmikis, have taken a diametrically opposite position to the very concept of ‘Ram Rajya’ and are promoting a ‘Ravan Rajya’ instead – an act that is being […]
