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From caste to race: Reading ‘Black & Buddhist’ through an Indian lens

A few days ago, while visiting a local library in a relatively small town on the eastern coast of the United States, the person who took me there asked...

Exclusion of SC/ST/OBC from EWS is valid for keeping balance of equality: SC bench in majority

The Supreme Court in a 3:2 judgement upheld the validity of the constitutional amendment that enables upto 10% reservations for EWS in education and public employment

Mangaluru court dismisses 2 interim applications by Juma Masjid (Mosque) authorities

Majoriatrian supremacist groups have created a conflict around this place of worship from April 2022

Woman, partner murdered by her brothers in suspected honour killing in UP’s Baghpat

One of the accused surrendered before Ramala police station and told the officials that he along with his three brothers had killed his sister and her lover Tuesday.

Our Constitution does not speak the language of exclusion: minority judgement holds EWS as unconstitutional

Justice Ravindra Bhat and CJI UU Lalit, in the dissenting judgement held that by excluding SC/ST/OBC from EWS reservations, the basic structure of the Constitution as well as the Equality Code is violated

Rajasthan: 46-yr-old Tribal man lynched for drawing water from tubewell

The police have arrested arrested 3 persons under SC/ST Act, who also allegedly hurled castiest slurs on the victim

Kashmir’s famous third gender singing sensation Abdul Rashid alias Reshma passes away

Famous third gender Kashmiri Singer Abdul Rashid popularly known as Reshma passed away early on Sunday morning

Police complaint against Vir Das’s show in Bengaluru by Hindu Janajagruti Samiti

Earlier, a show by another stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui was cancelled in Bengaluru, as police claimed the organisers had not taken permission

BJP has strayed away from Nehruvian vales of secularism: IAMC report

The IAMC report highlights global impact of spread of Hindutva ideology amidst increasing cases of violence and infringement of rights of minorities

State Failure to protect lives during 1992-1993 communal violence, compensation for kin of missing persons, dormant cases to be revived: SC

One of the root causes of their suffering was the failure of the State Government to maintain law and order says the November 4 order of the Supreme Court

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