BSP chief Mayawati held a marathon meeting with the Vidhan Sabha chiefs of each of these reserved seats on Tuesday in Lucknow and reviewed ...

The BSP chief said after Independence, if Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress party had somebody more capable than Bhimrao Ambedkar, they wou...

Caste is all-pervasive — from birth to death — in India. It needs to be questioned by everyone, not just the depressed castes, if we need t...

"It is a silent revolution and a model for others to follow," Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran told reporters.

Jatav community, to which BSP leader Mayawati belongs, constitutes about 55% of Dalit population in UP according to 2011 census, but BJP is...

Udit Raj made the remarks while speaking to reporters here on the issue of extending quota to Dalits in various areas of private sector inc...

Athawale, a prominent Dalit leader, was referring to the "silent agitation" by Maratha community in Maharashtra demanding scrapping of the ...

BJP chief Amit Shah, who was in the state capital as part of his Tiranga Yatra programme made a stopover at BJP MP Kaushal Kishore’s home.

Blaming family feud for the burning alive of the two children, Singh had said "If someone throws stones at a dog, the government is not res...

The social recognition or acceptance by the society has emerged as the determining factor for the caste status of a child born out of inter...

Poet K Satchidanandan said the suicide by Rohit Velmula was not "accidental" and alleged "continued oppression" of Dalit students in variou...

Ramdev today said he never insulted Dalit community and the particular word in his remark was latched onto by "some people" only to serve t...

Accusing Centre of being non-serious on diplomat's arrest in US, BSP supremo Mayawati said it has unmasked govt's "anti-Dalit mentality".

Under the SC&ST sub-Plan, certain proportion of funds meant for any programme is to be spent for providing benefits to these communities.

Ruling UPA's key ally DMK today joined Congress leaders in demanding that the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders be raised to 12 per annum.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda said society did not approve same-gotra marriages.

Cong is now aiming to wrest the state in the 2012 UP assembly polls.