It is always wise to be careful when something is wished for. The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of reservations in promotions for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in government jobs. This is ...

Like Parashuram, he has an axe to grind. And Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd brought it down heavily, but for a different people altogether, when he was in Calcutta last month.The redoubtable Dalit writer-acti...

Mayawati on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of plotting against Dalits “who have grown by doing their own businesses”, a day after the income-tax department revealed its crackdown on h...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar, in a meeting at Polo Maidan here on Sunday, listed schemes his government has undertaken for Dalits but some residents claimed they have not received the benefits he prom...

A Rajput allegedly thrashed a Dalit for speaking loudly on a mobile phone while passing by his home on Wednesday evening, triggering a caste clash that has led to 10 Dalits being admitted to hospital....

A Dalit youth was burnt alive in Hardoi district in an apparent “honour killing” on Sunday while leaving for a Lucknow hospital with money for his mother’s treatment.Mother Rambeti, 56, died of ...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar will on Wednesday visit Gaya, the district having the highest concentration of Scheduled Castes and one where the JDU has no base.Gaya is the stronghold of former chief min...

Two unmistakable features of Indian democracy in the last three decades have been those of reduction in poverty and the breakdown of patron-client relations. While the former is credited to economic r...

Bhim Army chief and BJP bugbear Chandrashekhar Azad has said he would soon float a political party to meet the aspirations of the Dalits.“It is high time I plunged into electoral politics because th...

The December 22 ministry shuffle by the Congress in Karnataka has caused friction with junior coalition partner Janata Dal Secular, which has broken a week’s uneasy silence to publicly warn the ally...