Dalit land remains loyal to Mayawati
By IANS,
Agra : Agra, the Dalit capital of northern India, Tuesday dominantly stood by Chief Minister Mayawati even as her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) suffered blows elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh.
Dalits allege denial of water by upper castes
By IANS,
Ranchi : Dalits of a Jharkhand village allege that they have been denied water from handpumps and entry into a community hall by upper castes in Chatra district.
‘Rise of Maoists due to injustice with tribals’
By IANS,
Shillong: Maoist activities are growing in India's tribal areas because the traditional forest dwellers have been denied justice, a tribal leader said Saturday.
Andhra minister booked for assaulting Dalit youth
By IANS,
Hyderabad : Hyderabad police Sunday booked an Andhra Pradesh minister and his aides for assaulting a Dalit supporter of the Telangana movement.
Over 300 Dalit atrocity cases in Himachal
By IANS,
Shimla : More than 300 cases of atrocities against Dalits were reported in Himachal Pradesh in the past three years, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Monday told the state assembly.
Dalits protest against Jan Lokpal bill
By IANS,
New Delhi : Hundreds of Dalits Wednesday gathered at India Gate and marched towards Jantar Mantar to protest the Jan Lokpal bill proposed by activist Anna Hazare and his team.
Man kills self, family in Bihar
By IANS,
Patna : Driven by poverty, a man set his wife and three children on fire before killing himself in Bihar's Aurangabad district early Monday, police said.
Historic day for Mahadalits in Bihar
By IANS,
Patna : The Mahadalits of Bihar, who constitute an overwhelming number among the state's downtrodden, are in a festive mood like never before ahead of India's 65th Independence Day.
2700 crores for dalits but just 45 crores for Muslims in Mayawati’s budget
By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,
Reservation: a talk of the hour
A Reflection on the Bollywood film “Aarakshan”
By Madhu Chandra
Dalit girl gangraped, four booked
By IANS,
Chandigarh : Three men and a woman have been booked for the gangrape of a 15-year-old Dalit girl in Haryana's Sirsa district, police said Saturday.
Rahul Gandhi meets assaulted Uttar Pradesh girl
By IANS,
New Delhi : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday met at a hospital here a Dalit girl who was blinded by her assailants after she resisted rape in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
A woman’s journey from hunger to the legislature
By Mohammed Shafeeq, IANS,
Hyderabad : From a small hut in a remote village in East Godavari district to the Andhra Pradesh legislature, Anguri Lakshmi Shiva Kumari has come a long way.
Dalit activists protest anti-Brahmin remarks by author
By IANS,
Pune: A few Dalit activists in Maharashtra have demanded action against a Pune-based author for his anti-Brahmin comments in a book while Brahmin groups are yet to decide on any action.
Set up special courts for Dalit cases: Wasnik
By IANS,
Shimla : States should set up special courts to try cases related to atrocities on Dalits, union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik said Friday.
Dalit girl killed for protesting harassment
By IANS,
Bhopal : A minor Dalit girl died in Madhya Pradesh Friday after a boy who was harassing her set her ablaze after pouring kerosene on her, police said.
Main accused arrested in Dalit girl attack
By IANS,
Fatehpur (Uttar Pradesh) : The main accused has been arrested in the brutal attack on a teenaged Dalit girl who was maimed for resisting rape, police said Monday.
Tribal villagers help nab kidnappers in Orissa
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar: Residents of a tribal hamlet in Orissa helped police rescue a man within a few hours after his abduction, an official said Saturday.
Tribals are soft targets for police and rebels: Sociologist Nandini Sundar
By Abu Zafar, IANS,
Different forms of untouchability among Muslims: Dalit Muslim Muhim
By Khalid Anis Ansari,
Mohammad Noor Hasan Azad, one of the founding members of the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz, discusses the contemporary lower caste movement among Indian Muslims
Court pulls up Gujarat government on tribes recognition delay
By IANS,
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court has pulled up the state government for its inaction in recognising the scheduled tribes living in the forest areas of Gir, Alech and Barda.
Dalit killing case shifted out of Haryana
By IANS,
New Delhi: In a blow to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, the Supreme Court Wednesday transferred the trial of those accused of attacking Dalits in Haryana to New Delhi.
Dalit killing case shifted out of Haryana
By IANS,
New Delhi : In a blow to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, the Supreme Court Wednesday transferred the trail of those accused of attacking Dalits in Haryana to New Delhi.
Dalit killed for plucking two brinjals in Bihar village
By IANS,
Patna: A Dalit man was beaten to death for plucking two brinjals from a field belonging to a landowner of a higher caste in a village in Bihar, police said Wednesday.
Tribal outfit strikes again, Assam death toll is 22
By IANS,
Guwahati: Tribal separatists continued their killing spree in Assam Tuesday, gunning down two more non-tribals and taking the death toll in overnight serial attacks to 22, police said.
‘Mayawati insensitive to Dalit woes’
By IANS,
Lucknow: National Commission for Scheduled Castes Chairman P.L. Punia Wednesday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of being insensitive to the problems faced by Dalits.
Obama urged to pay tribute to Ambedkar
By TCN NewsNew Delhi: The All India Christian Council (AICC) has appealed to the President of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama, to pay...
‘Police torture to withdraw candidature’ – DHRM complaint to Election Commission
By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Governor calls upon tribals to strengthen democracy
By IANS,
Vadodara: Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal Tuesday called upon the tribal youth to strengthen democracy in the country and abjure violence.
Cholera cases rise in Orissa’s tribal heartland
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar: Cholera and other water-borne diseases that have claimed 39 lives since August have infected 355 more people in Orissa's Rayagada district, an official said Wednesday.
Dalit woman gangraped in Greater Noida
By IANS,
Greater Noida : A 20-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gangraped at gunpoint in the Jewar area of Greater Noida, police said Tuesday.
The incident came to light Tuesday when the woman complained to the police.
"Shalini (name changed) was sleeping on the terrace of her parents's house in Karoli locality of Jewar area Monday night when two neighbourers, identified as Bunty and Bhura, raped her at gunpoint. She was sleeping alone as her parents were away and her siblings were sleeping inside the house," said Superintendent of Police Atul Saxena.
Bihar: Protests and politics over OBC status to “Ashraf Muslims”
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net
Patna: A controversy is in offing on the issue of inclusion of Shaikh into OBC category in Bihar. Many backward caste groups, including those among Muslims in the state, have registered their protest with the State Commission for Backward Castes (SCBC) against attempts by Shaikh, an upper caste Muslim group, to get OBC status.
Dalit woman branded a witch, thrashed in Rajasthan
By IANS,
Tonk (Rajasthan) : A Dalit woman was labelled a witch and beaten up badly in Rajasthan's Tonk district, police said Sunday.
Kamla Bairwa of Jhalra village in Tonk district, over 100 km from Jaipur, stated in her First Information Report (FIR) filed with the police Saturday that some villagers tagged her as a witch, insulted her and then beat her up.
"The villagers, especially the women, call me a witch. They insult me, torture me and beat me up. They wanted me to leave the village," Kamla, a labourer, told IANS.
Haryana told to arrest all Dalit attack accused by Monday
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Supreme Court Thursday slammed the Haryana government for its failure to arrest all those who looted and burnt Dalit houses in Mirchpur village in Hisar district April 21 and told it to arrest by Monday all accused who are on the run.
If those responsible for committing atrocities could not be arrested then what right does the director general of police have to continue in office, asked an apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly.
‘Very few in media understand Dalit or Muslim issues’
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net
Naveen Joshi has been associated with journalism for the last 30 years. He has seen the growth of Hindi newspapers from being a poor cousin of English print media to a position of power and influence. Read by crores of Indians every day, content and look of a Hindi newspaper today reflects the aspirations of the reader but still they have yet to become a complete newspaper, feels Naveen Joshi, who is the Editor of Hindi daily Hindustan. Some exercpts from his interview last year with Kashif-ul-Huda of TwoCircles.net:
Hindutva groups in Orissa should be dealt with strictly: Justice AP Shah
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: “The continuing programme of communal provocation that the groups and organizations of Hindutva ideology have been engaged in, should be ended forthwith through strict administrative action,” said Justice AP Shah, former CJ, Delhi High Court and head of the Jury, National People’s Tribunal (NPT) on Kandhamal.
Maya govt. is anti-Dalit and anti-farmers: Dr. Udit Raj
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Dr. Udit Raj, president of the Indian Justice Party, said that the Maya Government is anti-Dalit and anti-farmers, and has gone upon fueling the privatisation in U.P. “Recently, the government sold four sugar mills, viz. Chandpur (Bijnor), Jarwal (Behraich), Shishwan Bazar and Amroha and three of them are making profits. The Chandpur Sugar Mills has been sold to a liquor baron who had amassed thousand of crores through manipulation of business activities in liquor, mines, mid- day meal, etc.” alleged Dr. Raj.
Dalit woman paraded naked in Punjab, one held
By IANS,
Batala (Punjab) : One person has been arrested for allegedly parading a Dalit woman naked in Punjab's Bhagwanpur village Aug 10, police said Monday.
According to the police, the woman was allegedly paraded by her neighbours, who belong to an influential family.
"They forcibly took me to their house and thrashed me. Then they tore my clothes and forced me to go round the village," the victim told reporters.
The neighbours were angry as the victim's brother-in-law Gagandeep Singh was having an affair with a girl from the family.
Seven get life term for lynching Dalits in Haryana
By IANS,
Jhajjar (Haryana): A court here Monday awarded life imprisonment to seven people for the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district.
All the convicts were produced in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain, amidst heavy security. After the sentencing, the accused were sent to Rohtak jail.
The court acquitted 19 people in the case Saturday.
Seven held guilty for lynching five Dalits in Haryana
By IANS,
Jhajjar (Haryana): A district court here Saturday held seven people guilty and acquitted 19 others in a case relating to the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district.
The punishment for the convicts will be announced Monday.
All the seven people held guilty were sent to judicial custody by Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain Saturday.
No diversion of Dalit funds for CWG: Sandeep Dikshit
By IANS,
New Delhi : Contrary to an RTI reply, Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit Thursday said there was no diversion of funds meant for Dalits to Commonwealth Games projects, an issue that has raised a storm in parliament.
"There is no question of diversion of funds," Dikshit told reporters outside parliament. The Congress MP from East Delhi is the son of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
BSP walks out over Dalit funds for Games
By IANS,
New Delhi : Alleging that funds meant for Scheduled Castes had been diverted by the Delhi government to the Commonwealth Games, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs Tuesday walked out of the Lok Sabha.
Soon after the house re-assembled at 11.40 a.m. following an adjournment, the BSP MPs created an uproar.
BSP's leader in Lok Sabha, Dara Singh Chauhan, alleged that Rs.750 crore meant for the welfare of Dalits had been diverted by the Delhi government for the October Games.
Dalit funds not diverted to CWG: Dikshit
By IANS,
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday dismissed allegations by her Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati that the city government had diverted funds meant for Dalit upliftment to the Commonwealth Games.
"We have not diverted any funds from the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes welfare schemes for the Commonwealth Games," Dikshit told reporters here.
Mayawati had Monday alleged that the Delhi government had diverted Rs.750 crore meant for Dalit welfare to the Oct 3-14 Games.
Mayawati slams Dikshit for diverting Dalit funds to CWG
By IANS,
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has lashed out at her Delhi counterpart Sheila Dikshit for allegedly "diverting" huge amount of funds meant for Dalit upliftment to the Commonwealth Games.
Mayawati also questioned the constitutional validity of the Delhi government's decision to divert Rs.750 crore in this manner.