25 years after the horrific massacre in which elected dalit members of the Melavalavu panchayat were killed, the ground reality is that very little has actually changed. Small improvements aside, the enmity is alive and the threat of caste violence […]
Madurai: A group of villagers from a dalit community at P Muthulingapuram village in Peraiyur, Madurai submitted a petition to Madurai district collector Dr S Aneesh Sekhar on Friday, demanding an impartial investigation and withdrawal of false police cases filed […]
COIMBATORE: The Rotary Club of Coimbatore Downtown launched Rotaract Club of TransMom, a first-of-its-kind exclusive club for transgender people in south India, here on Thursday. The club, which has Dhanshika and Anushya as the president and secretary respectively, has 16 […]
“In Tamil Nadu, transgenders have been classified as the Most Backward Class and reservation is being provided to them under the MBC category, ” the AG submitted. CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking a special […]
The Greater Chennai Corporation has appointed 19-year-old E. Prem, a transperson from Vellore, for flying drones used to spray larvicide for mosquito control in the corporation. The corporation had adopted a resolution to this effect in its council meeting on […]
The Special Court for POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act cases has awarded 20 years of imprisonment to a youth for sexually assaulting a Dalit girl. According to prosecution M. Praveen Kumar, 27, of Anna Nagar in Alangulam […]
Chennai : Dalit movement in Tamil Nadu has suffered a major setback after honour killing at Kumbakonam. In a gruesome incident Shakthivel, 32, a Dalit youth hacked to death his Sister, Saranya, 27, and her husband Mohan (32) who was […]
A row has erupted in a village along the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border around an L-shaped ‘untouchability wall’ allegedly built by caste Hindus to keep out a Dalit colony. The seven-feet-high wall was constructed in 2016 around a settlement of […]
Parimala, a Dalit woman in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur, killed herself on Monday after she was allegedly harassed and verbally abused by a moneylender and his mother. They allegedly insulted her with casteist slurs when she was alone at home. Hurt […]
The victim’s wife found the body of her husband in their house on Friday night when she broke open the door as he was not responding. A DMK panchayat union ward councillor was booked in connection with the alleged suicide […]
