The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2008, and a report were submitted by a committee led by former judge BN Srikrishna on July 27.

The inhuman practice has been legally abolished long ago but greedy contractors and an inefficient police and judicial system make sure man...

Whatever Bhim Rao Ambedkar established in the Constitution has been reinstated by this judgment, said activist Bezwada Wilson.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah made his pro-Dalit and pro-oppressed stand the plank of the event and stated during an interaction on Sunday.

Appearing before a bench of Justices, advocate Shyam Divan contended that making Aadhaar mandatory would be violative of the citizens’ fund...

Now that you are going to build some 10 crore more toilets by 2019, this means you will build some 10 crore more septic tanks.

Swachh connotes pure and to me appears a rather Brahminical idea. It should have been named Saaf Bharat if the idea was only to clean up th...

Krishna has gone on record saying he wants a Dalit to break into the Brahmin-dominated Carnatic world and win the top honour of Kalaimamani.

The annual award is named after former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay, to honour the greatness of spirit in selfless service to the p...

A band of young men and women drove into the national capital after a long bus journey lasting 125 days crisscrossing nearly 500 districts ...

The 'Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers, 2013' law bans manual cleaning of night soil, septic tanks and sewers.

Bhim Yatra — a countrywide tour undertaken by safai karmacharis to campaign for eradication of manual scavenging — will culminate at Jantar...

The bus stops at various bastis of safai karamcharis and other places suitable for corner meetings where they talk about the humiliation of...

Speaking on the theme 'Justice' during a seminar on Nehruvian ideals, Bhushan, the Deputy Director General of Center for Science and Enviro...

Sandeep Dikshit also accused the party of having taken a 'contradictory' stand on the issue of economic growth and environment protection.

As part of its celebrations for the 125th birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Congress will this week ...

An estimated 13 lakh people continue to manually remove human excreta in the country, 14 years after it was prohibited by a legislation, ma...