India honors 45 unsung heroes with the Padma Shri award this Republic Day. These individuals include a former bus conductor who built the w...

First-time MLA Ravinder Indraj Singh has been sworn in as a Cabinet minister in the Rekha Gupta-led Delhi government. A key figure in the B...

Shailaja Paik, an Indian-American researcher on Dalit women, has been awarded an $800,000 MacArthur 'genius' grant. Paik, a history profess...

Today is the 120th birthday of PK Rosy, Malayalam cinema's first female performer. Google created a doodle to honour her birth anniversary.

Maurya had resigned from the governor's post in September last year, leading to speculations that the party want her to enter active politi...

'Writing With Fire' chronicles the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India's only newspaper run by Dalit women.

The proposal is likely to be put before the cabinet soon, Delhi's SC/ST Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam told.

The present upsurge of dalit anger will be disruptive and dislocate some nodes of control and patronage. But it will change India for the b...

Mayawati also warned that she and her supporters would embrace Buddhism if Hindu religious leaders did not change their attitude towards Da...

The interactive game Made to Order, in which one is alloted the profile of a woman belonging to particular social strata, is developed by B...

The rally saw Dalits taking a pledge that they will no more lift the carcasses. Speakers also demanded that the state government should pro...

Congress suggested that Bharat Ratna should be given to any departed leader within an year of his/her demise to avoid any controversy.

Rao highlighted the number of welfare and development programmes of his government like land distribution for Dalits, farm loan waiver.

Telengana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao launched the distribution of three acres of land to Dalits after hoisting the National Flag.

It is tempting to chide foul-mouthed politicians and ask them to act more decent. That would be a mistake, serving the cause of civility.

Dalit entrepreneurs are now gaining momentum and getting ready to expand their horizons and do business with industrial houses.

Aprominent Dalit academic once told this writer that when a Dalit entered the seminar room, the rest of the people there should feel uncomf...