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...
06 Sep, 2018, 10.46 AM IST
BSP may gain as cow vigilantes unite Muslims & Dalits in UPCombined with the fact that last week four prominent Muslims leaders joined BSP seems to make it clear which party is the Muslim voter’s fi...
23 Aug, 2016, 06.22 AM IST
Sushil Kumar Modi slams Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad for shedding 'fake tears'Sushil charged Nitish and Lalu with shedding 'fake tears' on Faridabad incident with an eye to get the sizeable votes of dalits in Bihar po...
21 Oct, 2015, 05.45 PM IST
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...
24 Aug, 2015, 11.21 PM IST
Ranveer Sena had political patronage from BJP: CobrapostThe Ranveer Sena, formed in the 1990s in ‘response’ to Maoists in Bihar, were involved in violent clashes and is classified as a terrorist ...
18 Aug, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
How the Shankarbigha massacre became a foregone verdictThe damage from that failure is evident from the contrasting testimonies given by Rajvanshi before the Amir Das Commission and the trial co...
05 Apr, 2015, 12.25 PM IST
Nitish Kumar cannot stop Narendra Modi from entering Bihar: Rabri Devi"Lalu Prasad had the guts to stop the rath of L K Advani but Nitish Kumar does not have the strength to stop Narendra Modi," she was quoted...
21 Oct, 2013, 10.56 PM IST
Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre: Patna HC's acquittal of all 26 will gladden maoist heartsThe court set aside a lower court’s conviction of 26 accused in the massacre of 58 Dalits — 43 of them women and children — in Bihar’s Jeha...
12 Oct, 2013, 04.11 AM IST
Patna High Court order in Laxmanpur-Bathe case unacceptable: Left partiesCPI(M) reiterated its earlier demand to appeal against the HC judgement acquitting Pappu Yadav in the murder of CPI(M) MLA Ajit Sarkar.
11 Oct, 2013, 04.26 PM IST
Bihar govt to approach SC against HC order in massacre caseA division bench of Patna High Court had yesterday absolved 26 persons of all charges for lack of evidence against them.
10 Oct, 2013, 06.27 PM IST
Justice for marginalised a neccessity to keep radicals awayAquittal in Bathani Tola massacre by Patna HC constitutes, for some of the most marginalised and dispossessed sections of our population, t...
23 Apr, 2012, 08.40 AM IST
- HC relief for 6 accused in Khairlanji killings
In the gruesome Khairlanji Dalit family massacre case of 2006, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Wednesday commuted death senten...
15 Jul, 2010, 05.20 AM IST
- 16 get death in 1997 Dalit carnage in Bihar
Thirteen years after 58 unarmed Dalits were massacred by Ranvir Sena, a private militia of upper caste landlords, in Jehanabad, a Bihar cou...
08 Apr, 2010, 05.58 AM IST
- 35 accused discharged
In a big blow to the Congress-NCP combine ahead of the March 11 Zilla Parishad polls, a court in Nagpur on Thursday discharged 35 of the 46...
23 Feb, 2007, 05.11 AM IST
- CM, deputy take stock as Bhandara protests spread
A spate of violent protests at several places across the state over the killings of four members of a Dalit family in Bhandara district of ...
22 Nov, 2006, 03.26 AM IST
- Bhandara killings now in CBI hands
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday decided to hand over to the CBI the probe into the brutal killing of four members of a Dalit family i...
15 Nov, 2006, 12.58 AM IST
- Women create a flutter at Mantralaya
Security in Maharashtra secretariat here was on Wednesday thrown into disarray as over 40 dalit women tried to force their way into the Cab...
09 Nov, 2006, 03.09 AM IST