Former BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha chief Sanjay Paswan supported the Supreme Court's decision allowing sub-groups in the SC reservation but ...

At the BJP rally on Saturday, Modi was effusive in his praise for Manda Krishna Madiga, leader of this community, and the latter got emotio...

Modi also hit at the Congress party, saying twice it did not allow B R Ambedkar to win elections and also alleged that the grand old party ...

"There is often a debate if there is one god, or are there many Gods. The Hindu answer to this is that there is god, nothing else. Because ...

Even among the OBCs, special attention was paid on giving representation to castes which are lesser in numbers but together they all become...

Among middle-class educated and employed Dalits who act as opinion makers, or young people in recent years, one can discern opposition to B...

The result suggests the Madigas have deserted Congress, largely because they feel the Holeyas have cornered benefits in jobs and education.

He has framed policies and made targeted interventions among the microscopic communities to stitch together the alliance.

This pattern – or the lack of it – in Challakere is true of the entire district. In the last two-and-a-half decades, Chitradurga district’s...

Dalits make up about 20% of Karnataka’s population and can drive the result in about 100 seats, of which 36 are reserved for SCs. It is unl...

Of the 224 constituencies in the state, 36 are reserved for SCs. The 1.08 crore Dalits in a population of 6.11 crore can make a difference ...

Shah’s visit to central Karnataka is on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a rally in Davanagere on February 28.

Badri Narayan, professor at JNU’s Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, says the emergence of cow vigilante groups may work...

Narendra Modi as an OBC PM should not have allowed all the cow protection laws to be passed and strengthened after he came to power. He sho...

Telangana proponents feel that despite not asking for anything over the entitlement of new states, the region would be much better off than...

After Lalu Prasad’s colourful presence in the previous ministry, there are no Yadavs in the Cabinet.

As the Gurjar-Meena fire raged in Rajasthan, the gathering at a recent Congress Working Committee meeting decided to skip a lengthy discuss...