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Institutional complicity in efforts to protect upper-caste criminals when the crimes are against Dalits was laid bare in the Hathras case in Uttar Pradesh. But that is just a blatant example among num...

The National Crime Records Bureau data present a picture of trends in criminality. It has to be assumed, though, that many crimes are not reported, especially those against women and against those les...

Mamata Banerjee on Thursday drew a parallel between Sita’s agnipariksha and forcible cremation of a Dalit girl who had allegedly been gang-raped in the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh as the Bengal chie...

The American criminal justice system has been put on trial by the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM accuses the system of being racially biased against blacks. The evidence includes the statistical ove...

The purpose of reservations is the just distribution of benefits to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and socially and educationally backward classes. This principle appears to lie at the basis of th...

The Jharkhand centre of Builders Association of India (BAI) has welcomed the state’s move to change the existing rules for awarding government contracts worth up to Rs 25 crore to local firms bu...

The government is likely to move the Supreme Court for a review of its recent judgment that said states were not bound to provide reservation in jobs and there was no fundamental right that guaranteed...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday claimed that the world was “cheering for India” and appeared to link it to the people’s decision to vote in a “stable government” in 2014.“America is...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday recalled two of its directions relating to the dilution of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 2018, as it restored the power of poli...