Backward classes welfare minister Shivaraj Tangadagi said the survey covered 59.8 million or 94.17% of the estimated 63.5 ...

T he release of Ananth Mahadevan's directorial film 'Phule', which was scheduled to hit theatres on April 11, has been ...

Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is ...

Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app. The Karnataka government has decided to conduct a fresh survey to collect empirical data for restructuring the 17 per cent ...

There is a strong gender element to the ramifications of caste as well. Women who belong to a “scheduled caste”—one that falls low in the hierarchy—suffer higher incidents of domestic ...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside the Haryana Public Service Commission’s (HPSC) rejection of a Scheduled Caste candidate’s candidature for the state’s judicial services, calling the ...

Reports have emerged from Kathur village in the Maniyarsyun Patti area of Pauri district, where a Scheduled Caste woman's wedding faced obstruction from members of the Brahmin community.

In November 2023, the Bihar Assembly passed legislation increasing reservations for Economically Backward Class, Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Caste, and Scheduled Tribe communities from 50 per ...

Two of the three men appeared at the special court in Mainpuri district on Tuesday A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly ...

The Bills titled the ‘Telangana Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation ... Another Bill, which is meant to clear sub-caste reservation for BCs, is also tabled in the ...

Telangana High Court steps in to protect ostracised SC family By Legal Correspondent Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has stepped in to protect the rights of a Scheduled Caste (Madiga) family ...

Of the 158,773 cases filed in India between 2020 and 2022 under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, only 321 (or one in 500) were from West Bengal ...