Madurai: The dalits of Ambedkar Colony have urged the district administration to provide them a way to carry dead bodies to the burial ground, which is located away from their settlement. They do not carry bodies through the main road […]
Girl Wanted to Marry Dalit, Set Ablaze by Mom A woman burnt her 17-year-old daughter alive to stop her from marrying her Dalit boyfriend in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam on Tuesday. The mother, who also set herself on fire, was admitted […]
A 31-year-old woman from Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu was arrested two months after a TikTok in which she abused Dalits went viral on social media. Sudha, who works as a beautician, was taken into custody on Saturday based on […]
NAGAPATTINAM: Unable to accept her teenage daughter being in a relationship with a Dalit youth, a woman set the girl and herself on fire in a village near Nagapattinam on Tuesday. They suffered 90 per cent burns and have been […]
Madurai (TN): The Madras high court on Monday expressed displeasure at the release of 13 convicts who were handed out life term for butchering six dalits at Melavalavu in Madurai district in 1997, saying there should be a limit to […]
The students made six demands in their statement to the administration, the first of which was a request to the IITM authorities and the Tamil Nadu police to conduct a fair investigation Students from IIT Madras held a protest on […]
Recent events in Tamil Nadu have turned the spotlight on panchami lands. A new Act to prevent the sale of such lands to non-Dalits is being considered by the State and the legislation might be able to prevent illegal sales […]
As political parties including the DMK staged protests on Friday pressing their demand for a transparent probe into the suicide of an IIT Madras student, the institution said it is extending full cooperation to the police investigation, now transferred to […]
DPI officials over Ambedkar entry Hubballi: Amid the raging row over the handbook that was uploaded and subsequently removed on the department of public instruction (DPI) website wherein the role of BR Ambedkar in the framing of the Constitution had […]
Dalit organisations are planning an agitation to reclaim Panchami lands in possession of other communities, says TNEUF. Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) is gearing up to launch an agitation in February 25, 2020, to reclaim Panchami lands […]
