A police officer, Suresh Kumar alleges, shot his son and offered him Rs 10 lakh to “name any Muslim” as the killer of the young Dalit.Ashok Kumar, a young day labourer left incapable of hard work ...

The Centre has iterated that “scientific and technical” posts will continue to be exempted from reservation but academics termed the policy outdated since there are enough eligible candidates now ...

The National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights has called for insulating the law to protect the socially disadvantaged from future judicial review and scrapping the economic reservation as the multi-gro...

His grandfather’s name was Kachrya meaning rubbish, father’s name Damu signifying indignity, and he is Sanjay — which means triumphant.Dr Sanjay Jadhav, an orthopaedic surgeon, was narrating his...

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has invited applications from prospective researchers for its doctoral programme but the advertisement has no provision for reservation of seats for cand...

A teenaged Dalit boy was shot dead in an Uttar Pradesh village on Saturday night five days after he had prayed at a local temple defying upper caste objections, the bereaved father has alleged.Four yo...

Well-known academics on Wednesday joined over a thousand researchers and other citizens in protesting a decision taken by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, to close the institute indef...

The Aam Aadmi Party government has decided to grant ownership rights to around 7,200 families that got agricultural land in the mid-70s under a programme for landless people.Under the '20-point progra...

The International Commission of Jurists has alleged that the Indian government has fallen short of its “obligation” to ensure that citizens had access to adequate food amid the Covid-19 crisis, th...

The BJP on Sunday released its election manifesto for the October 21 Haryana Assembly polls, terming it as a 'Sankalp Patra'.The BJP, which described its manifesto as a commitment paper that represent...