As Bihar Assembly polls approach, political parties are intensifying their Dalit outreach. The JDU plans to celebrate Ambedkar's birth anni...

Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, former Chief Minister of Bihar, hinted at resigning from the cabinet, expressing dissatisfaction with the ...

Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, the Nitish Kumar-led JDU is intensifying efforts to attract Dalit voters. The party plans to organiz...

The Supreme Court's recent decision to permit sub-classification among Scheduled Castes has incited varied responses from NDA and INDIA blo...

Kumar's comments in the Bihar assembly last week while talking about women education - for which he had to apologise the next day under Opp...

Altogether 17 candidates are in the fray for the two seats, eight in Tarapur and nine in Kusheshwar Asthan. The JD(U)'s bid to retain these...

RJD president Lalu Prasad said he had a telephonic talk with Sonia Gandhi whom he asked to hold a meeting of "like-minded" parties which co...

RSS is constantly changing and those who want to contest its influence don’t understand these changes .Attacking its stereo-types will not ...

HAM’s Jitan Ram Manjhi, a Dalit leader who became chief minister with Nitish Kumar’s blessings but soon fell out and returned to the NDA fo...

Nitish Kumar introduced the Mahadalit umbrella in 2007 after the Bihar State Mahadalit Commission recommended inclusion of 18 scheduled cas...

The legacy of Phoolan Devi has been invoked by Mukesh Sahni to seek support of the Mallah (boatmen) community for the BJP-led alliance in t...

RJD candidate from Jhanjharpur Gulab Yadav's election affidavit says he faces charges of rape (Sec 376 IPC) and under the SC-ST (prevention...

Manjhi might turn out to be the flicker of hope the Musahars are looking for as Darbhanga goes to polls on October 23.

This assembly election is witnessing the emergence of Musahars as a strong constituency determined to vote en bloc.

The PM belongs to the Teli community which was accommodated in the 'extremely backward' category just before polls were announced.

Like it or not, caste continues to underpin electoral behaviour. This is so particularly in Bihar and UP, with the exception of ‘wave’ elec...

Voters are not quite sure about the political affiliation of Manjhi. This suggests that BJP may have to walk the extra mile to harness the ...