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Conversion beyond Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist faith ends Scheduled Caste status, says Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has ruled that individuals converting from Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism to other religions forfeit their Scheduled Cast...
NCSC to launch all-India exercise to probe SC quota 'misuse' by convertsThe National Commission for Scheduled Castes is set to embark on a comprehensive national scrutiny. This initiative will delve into allegat...
'Fraud on Constitution': SC rules against religious conversion for quota benefitsThe Supreme Court ruled that religious conversions solely for reservation benefits are unconstitutional. The court upheld a decision denyin...
Bengaluru CEO Anuradha Tiwari adds fuel to 'Brahmin Genes' fire, stamps car with controversial stickerAnuradha Tiwari, CEO of Just Burst Out, shared images of her car with 'Brahmin genes' stickers on X. Her post received over 2.1 million vie...
California gov dept says caste not essential part of Hinduism, amends 2020 complaintCalifornia's Civil Rights Department has amended its 2020 complaint regarding alleged caste discrimination at a Silicon Valley tech giant, ...
View: Soft Hindutva approach can prove disastrous for CongressHindutva certainly has a definite meaning, unmistakable to those at its receiving end.
SC decision on Sabarimala temple makes Hinduism even more inclusive: Maneka GandhiHailing the apex court judgement on Sabarimala, Gandhi said it is a "wonderful" judgement that paves way to make Hinduism even more inclusi...
View: Tharoor’s attempt to absolve Hinduism of caste system shows how blind the privileged can be“Hindu society may have maintained a distasteful practice but no one can credibly argue that it is intrinsic to the religion,” Tharoor writ...
Indian Americans hold peaceful protest against CNN in Chicago"The grotesque practices of five individuals have nothing to do with Hinduism, they are not part of any Hindu scriptures or Hindu teachings...
Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu in the US House asks board to describe Hinduism accuratelyCalifornia State Board of Education is in final stages of revising and updating the K-12 History-Social Science Framework for public school...
What the Constitution means to DalitsIn the popular Dalit imagination, the Constitution is the anti-thesis of Manusmriti, the ancient text whose laws governed the caste Hindu s...
- NHRC notice to Karnataka govt over attack on Dalit writer
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Karnataka government over the alleged thrashing of a young Dalit writer ...
Government firm on opposing dalit tag for convertsThe government says mere social "backwardness" cannot put converts at par with dalits whose backwardness arises from the traditional practi...
Hindu reconvert gets SC benefitsIn a ruling that would stoke the debate over religious conversion and reconversion, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that a Christian ...
At least 58 persons embrace Hinduism on Christmas dayAt least 58 persons, most of them belonging to Christian families, embraced Hinduism under the initiative of Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Chris...
Now is the right time to raise conversion issue: Koenraad Elst"As for Ghar Wapsi, I feel it is a redundant term, since Islam has spread by prosletysation, as has Christianity. There were pre-Islamic an...
No exaggeration in referring to an Indian as a 'Hindu' abroad: Kalraj Mishra"Hinduism is a nationality ...it does not discriminate on caste and biradari (community) and if anyone levels any charges, they need to stu...