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Funds Withheld, Futures on Hold: Dalit, OBC, Minority students face scholarship crisis amidst delays and cuts
A sudden funding freeze leaves dozens of marginalised students in limbo, exposing deepening cracks in the government’s commitment to educational justice
Return Assam’s land and forests to the indigenous and Adivasi people: DSG
A detailed fact-finding report confirmed that the Azure Power company secured land for its solar power project at Mikir Bamuni Grant village by illegal and fraudulent means.
SC recognises how intersection of gender, caste and disability makes one a soft target
While hearing a case realted to the rape of a visually impaired woman from a Scheduled Caste, the court also laid down guidelines on how to deal with complainants with disabilities in their interaction with the judicial system
IIT Prof’s meltdown, abuse of students is a lesson on how not to teach
Associate Professor Seema Singh’s humiliation of Dalit and PWD students exposes the class divide in elite institutions
Shocks the judicial conscience: Odisha HC on death of four manual scavengers
The High Court has directed Rs. 10 lakh compensation to manual scavengers’ family who died due to asphyxiation
Forest dwellers to elect village heads for first time in UP
The Vantangiya tribe lives in dense forest areas of Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Gonda and Balrampur in Eastern UP
Ambedkar and the call to Conversion!
Would he have been arrested today under provisions of laws against “Love Jihad”?
The process itself is the punishment: HRF on NIA Raids
NIA had raised premises of several Adivasi, Dalit and human rights activists in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on April 1
Guj Court convicts three men for 2013 assault on Amrabhai Boricha
The same men are also accused in the 2021 murder of the Dalit farmer and RTI activist
K’taka HC questions State on steps taken to use modern technology to replace manual scavenging
The court has asked the state to file an affidavit, and observed that the government had barely complied with the provisions of the Act
Bihar ADGP raps police force for slow progress in SC/ST cases
In the circular issued, glaring data reveals that in the last one year, a final report had been submitted in only 23 percent of cases, and no arrests have been made in 81 percent of cases
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