A group of Dalit activists has condemned the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly putting its members in virtual prisons and using police to threaten them, the allegation coming t...

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The man on the stage is Raj Thackeray but the three giant screens are showing Narendra Modi.“I have some Jain friends. They too are associated with this (beef export) business,” a video clip shows...

The Narendra Modi government stopped printing the Collected Works of Babasaheb Dr Ambedkar in English after coming to power in 2014, it has emerged, although the Prime Minister regularly hails the Dal...

Sunday church services usually end with announcements of weddings and Bible quiz results. On April 7, the English Mass at Visakhapatnam’s St Anthony’s Church was followed by a speech from the loca...

Muktidih is the fictitious name given by Anand Chakravarti to a village in Bihar which he has been visiting for two decades. That the irony of naming is deliberate becomes evident as the leitmotif of ...

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, has decided to initiate the process of demoting by rank a professor, who has since joined IIT Dhanbad as director, in connection with a case of caste-based ...

Not long ago, a special ambulance service was launched by the state government for injured cows. But a senior official at the local Baba Raghav Das Medical College tells me that most of the trauma pat...

Sir — A mural on a 200-metre-long wall along Justice Chandra Madhab Road that had been painted by the renowned artist, Shanu Lahiri, and her team in 1985 has been wiped out. In its place, the wall n...

Over 300 Dalits marched to a Hanuman temple through Lucknow’s main market on Saturday, claiming that if the monkey god was indeed a Dalit, his temples should be handed over to the community.Their le...