Due to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, all migrant workers went back to their homes in Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh and the onus came on the domestic Dalit workers. It is for the first time that Gagandeep Kaur, 17, is […]
Bathinda: Dalit labourers under the banner of Dehati Mazdoor Sabha staged a protest against the state government alleging faulty distribution of ration among poor people at Sangat Mandi area in Bathinda on Friday. Sabha members warned that if steps were […]
PATIALA: A day after the Sangrur police suspended two policemen and transferred three others from Sandaur police station, following allegations of illegal detention and torture of two Dalit brothers inside the police station, the Punjab Scheduled Caste Commission has ordered […]
While sharing the video clip on his Twitter handle, Chief Minister said, ‘Pleased to see the applause and affection showered by people of Nabha on the sanitation worker.’ Amid the lockdown imposed to control the spread of coronavirus, a video […]
927 households surveyed | Spouses in 36 per cent of cases addicted to drugs A study on rural Dalit women working as labourers in Punjab shows that 96.33 per cent of them are under debt, while more than one-third (36.46 […]
Several labourers have knocked on the door of the Scheduled Castes (SC) Commission after they were allegedly denied benefits by the Health Department in the Patran block of Patiala. For the last two months, they have been running from pillar […]
A recent study examined 927 Dalit women labour households across four districts. A lot of them reeled under debt, faced sexual harassment The plight of Dalit women in rural Punjab — from lack of access to education and healthcare to […]
Chandigarh: Having evaded arrest for eight months, former BJP working committee member and advisory panel of railways member Rekha Tandon surrendered before Loharu police in Bhiwani district on Monday. Tandon is accused of a conspiracy which led to a statue […]
A neo-rich class called the creamy layer, that is the elite subalterns, has emerged amongst these reserved categories over the last few decades, and they do not let their subalterns to rise further, realising that they may challenge their hegemony. […]
The Punjab State SC Commission has come to the aid of a Dalit woman who was facing harassment on account of false complaints. Chairperson of the commission Tejinder Kaur said Anju Luthra, wife of late Krishan Gopal, a resident of […]
