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Better RSS ties, welfare steps, caste balance help BJPFollowing the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP implemented key changes for the assembly polls, including a focus on female voters through ...
For BJP, caste equations go hand in hand with welfarism in MaharashtraPankaja Munde held a Dussehra rally in Beed, highlighting her OBC roots. Kiren Rijiju met Buddhist Dalit leaders to expand BJP's reach in M...
Centre sets up panel on SC status for Dalit convertsFormer Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan-headed panel will have IAS (retd) Ravinder Kumar Jain and UGC member Sushma Yadav as its memb...
UK elects first Dalit female mayor in London councilCouncillor Mohinder K Midha has been elected mayor of Ealing Council in west London, becoming the first female mayor of a local London coun...
Centre likely to set up a panel on Dalit convertsMove to be of specific value to those who adopted Christianity, Islam; focus on socio-economic status.
Centre mulls panel to explore Scheduled Caste benefits for Muslim, Christian dalitsWhile Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits enjoy SC status, those from Christian or Muslim communities do not, as per presidential order issued ...
Buddhist, Ambedkarite bodies say UP law that penalises mass conversions is a move to quell Dalit resistanceUP's Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, promulgated last week penalises mass conversions - defined by the ordina...
Term ‘dalit’ illusionary: Maharashtra duo who filed PILIt was due to the duo’s efforts that the I&B ministry issued an advisory to media organisations recently to refrain from using the word ‘Da...
Just in time: Narendra Modi to open Ambedkar Memorial early AprilThe timing would be politically perfect for the Union government, which has been competing with the Congress to own up Ambedkar’s legacy.
Delhi may not clear separate religion status for LingayatsThe stand taken by the NDA ally and Dalit leader is an indication of how the government will take the battle ahead with the Congress, which...
In Kanpur, Amit Shah takes swipe at Akhilesh Yadav, attacks MayawatiAmit Shah targeted the ruling Samajwadi Party over alleged corruption and poor law and order while taking potshots at Akhilesh.
Why Mayawati's BSP, and not SP, is BJP's main adversary in UP pollsSince the last BJP government led by Rajnath Singh was voted out at the beginning of the new millennium, UP has seen a bipolar polity with ...
Rohith Vemula's mother, brother embrace BuddhismRohith's mother Radhika and brother Naga Chaitanya Vemula, also known as Raja Vemula, were given 'deeksha' at a function in Dadar in the pr...
Nitish Kumar for extending reservation in private sectorNitish Kumar today stressed on increasing the reservation quota in jobs beyond 50 per cent in view of the increasing population of Schedule...
Maharashtra: Protest march over Hyderabad Central University suicideThe protest was organised yesterday jointly by Congress, CPI, Buddhist Society of India, Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh and Samyak Vidyarthi Ando...
South Asian groups hold candle-lit vigil over Rohith's deathA number of South Asian groups held a candle-lit vigil outside the Indian High Commission here to protest the death of a dalit scholar in H...
Dalit Muslims, Dalit Christians & quota: What is it all about?The issue of categorising Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians among SCs is separate from that of earmarking 5% quota of OBCs for other relig...
UK Dalit groups write to PM Narendra Modi, urge action on Dalit massacresSome of Britain's largest Dalit rights groups have criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his lack of action against alleged massacre...
Gutsy dalit entrepreneur scripted Maharashtra government bid for BR Ambedkar’s London homeThe house on King Henry Road where Ambedkar lived while studying at the London School of Economics is a shrine of sorts for Saroj.
- ‘SC can’t decide on quota for minorities’
The SC on Tuesday said it will examine the constitutional validity of the Ranganath Misra Commission recommendation for inclusion of dalit ...