Shikhar is the grandson of former Home Minister of India, Sushikumar Shine, and the son of actor Smruti Shinde. He has a ...

The priest said that for Dalits in the South Asian sub-continent, there is no escaping the evil practice. “So, we ensure ...

Reports of violence against Dalits continue to surface from across the country, with a number of cases coming from BJP-ruled states. The National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) Crime in India report ...

Jagannath Temple in Puri is one of the Char Dham temples in India and holds immense religious ... praised for its ani-discrimantion practices. Dalits and other Hindu castes are allowed to enter ...

Once pundits used to speculate that Mayawati could become India’s first Dalit PM. Dust is still thin on those columns and already everyone has to be reminded that she was the first UP CM to ...

Nearly 44 years after 24 Dalits were brutally killed in a targeted massacre in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, ...

Janhvi Kapoor’s boyfriend Shikhar Pahariya recently gave a strong response to a netizen who made a casteist remark against ...

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A special court in UP's Mainpuri district on Tuesday sentenced three persons to death in the 1981 Dehuli massacre which saw 24 Dalits, including women and two children, being killed. Special judge ...

A special court in UP's Mainpuri district on Tuesday sentenced three persons to death in the 1981 Dehuli massacre which saw 24 Dalits, including women and two children, being killed. On March 12, ...

Despite legislation banning discrimination based on caste, activists say the stigma leaves India’s more than 260 million Dalits vulnerable to abuse and less able to seek redress for crimes ...

In successive LS polls as well as assembly elections, the BJP has played victory of Maharaja Suheldev over Syed Ghazi to ...