The National Commission of Scheduled Castes has directed the Ramgarh district administration and the railways’ Dhanbad division to ensure compensation and justice to railway employee Ashok Ram, who ...

The National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Friday that they were mulling moving court against the Centre's decision to extend the 77th and 103rd Amendments of the Indi...

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended two judges for elevation to the top court, one of them a possible future Chief Justice who would also be the first Dalit judge in over a decade to hold the ...

When societies display imbalance, it is not always easy to reach perfect balance in the law against it. An example is the controversy surrounding the anti-dowry law. The complaint of murder for dowry ...

The BJP-led Centre was on Monday non-committal on legislative or judicial measures to address the concerns expressed by leaders from across parties about the fate of reservation for Dalits and tribals...

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The Centre on Tuesday said the BJP-run Uttar Pradesh government had taken an “unconstitutional” decision to remove 17 castes from the list of Other Backward Classes and label them Scheduled Castes...

A Scheduled Caste couple in Uttar Pradesh who had just got married and wanted to pray at a village temple found it locked before police reached the site and opened the gates of the shrine to avert an ...

Allahabad High Court has stayed an order passed by the Yogi Adityanath government earlier this year to remove 17 castes from the list of Other Backward Classes and label them Scheduled Castes, observi...

Mamata Banerjee gave a patient hearing to 37 MLAs from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for around two hours on Tuesday during an unprecedented meeting in which the condition of the backward ...