Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while campaigning for the upcoming by-elections, highlighted his government's efforts in improving the s...

The release of the caste-based socio-economic survey by the Bihar government has become a major political issue in India. The survey reveal...

The California State Senate has passed a bill by a vote of 34-1 to make caste a 'protected category' in the state's anti-discrimination law...

The RJD leader said in all its posters, the word ‘Tejashwi Tay Hai’ (Tejashwi is determined) has been written on a saffron background to sh...

In 2017, Gujarat government also formed Gujarat State Non-Reserved Class Commission post the Patidar agitation to look into the problems of...

Hindutva certainly has a definite meaning, unmistakable to those at its receiving end.

The gurukul way of learning that we are trying to encourage now will have no space for any discrimination between people based on caste or ...

It was the BJP that made Mayawati chief minister of Uttar Pradesh twice to change the impression that it was a "savarno (upper caste) ki pa...

This week's "Poke Me" invited your comments on "Poke me: No matter what caste or outcast, Mohan Bhagwat wants more Hindus".

The answer to the hyper-competitive politicisation of caste-herds does not lie in the annihilation of reservations. It lies in forcing a ch...

In seeking to make the BJP more socially inclusive, the current leadership of the party is only taking forward a process, if boldly, that g...

Scholarships and other financial sops could soon be available for economically poor sections of upper caste communities in Bihar just ahead...

The Lok Sabha last week passed the Land Acquisition Bill with nine amendments, and now faces the real test in the Rajya Sabha, where the go...

Pejawar mutt pontiff Vishveshateertha, who initiated Union minister Uma Bharti into sanyas, said dalits should get the same status as savar...

If Hindus and Muslims want to become "real Indians", they must change their mindset, Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katj...

What is a bit of a surprise is the really low representation of dalits. With just 3 in the entire council, they have a mere 7% of berths.

Undeterred by the setback in Gujarat elections, BSP chief Mayawati proposes to repeat the Uttar Pradesh experiment in all prominent states ...