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Gauhati High Court questions allotment of 3000 Bighas of land to private cement company in Assam
Behind the 3,000-bigha allotment to Mahabal Cement lies a decades-old conflict over customary rights, ecological safeguards, and Sixth Schedule protections
Anti-Dalit violence all pervasive even in April 2023, #DalitHistory month
More incidents of caste-based atrocities reported across states serving as a bitter reminder that the road to equality and a casteless society is hard
Manual Scavenging continues unabated, Indian Govts turns a deaf ear to acknowledge this systemic, extreme violence
Even as Supreme Court directs governments to meet to discuss implementation of a central law, abolition of manual scavenging, a callous system has a lukewarm response
Complaint to NCSC over Bihar Police assault on minor Dalit boys for playing music at Holi
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In its complaint, CJP has informed the Commission that the police, unprompted, beat up the Dalit boys and their mothers came to save them, beat them as well
Study Reveals Inequity in PM-JAY Implementation, Fails to Reach Most Vulnerable Sections
Analysis published in Lancet Regional Health shows discrepancy in health insurance utilisation among EWS in India
Gujarat: 3 lose their lives and 2 hospitalised from toxic sewer gas exposure; investigation launched
Second incident of death due to asphyxiation reported in two weeks, is this a sign of state negligence?
Dalit Scholar of Wardha University faces threat to life & career
With his PhD being unfairly held up, Rajneesh Kumar Ambedkar had to resort to a peaceful public protest; now goons have been brought in to threaten him and his protesting colleagues, even attacking them
While the OBCs are ripe fruit for electoral stakes, last 5 years reveals low representation in All India Services
Data provided by the union government in the upper house of parliament, Rajya Sabha shows over the last five years, representation of OBCs, Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs) in All India Services has been low.
March 2023 Round up of attacks on Dalits
In the month of March Dalits across the country were stopped from entering temples, their homes burnt, assaulted for playing music and so on
Finally Dalit Christians in SC list, Valmikis as STs: YSR Jagan Reddy in Andhra
With these state government resolutions, Jagan pushes ahead with outreach to the marginalised; both groups backed the YSRCP to the hilt in the 2019 elections; Andhra CM also assures other tribal groups that inclusion of Valmikis won’t affect existing quotas.
MP, UP: incidents of hate, intolerance and violence against Muslims reported from both states
Targeting of religious minorities continue, in one shocking incident the police reportedly beat up Muslim locals who had called them for help
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