DALIT, Daily update
14 February 2020
Maharashtra: 16-year-old Dalit girl raped by ten persons; five arrested
Deccan Herald
A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by 10 persons for over six months in Maharashtra's Solapur district, police said on Wednesday. Five of the ...
Raped by teacher twice, Dalit minor slashes her wrist
Ahmedabad Mirror
Massive protests erupted in Chotila with Dalit community members blocking a part of Ahmedabad-Rajkot highway for hours on Tuesday , demanding ...
Indian Christians cheer court restoring Dalit protection law
UCAN
India's top court has restored provisions of a law designed to protect socially poor indigenous and Dalit people from atrocities, eliciting applause from ...
SC on reservations: Does politics hamper objective review of India's quota for Dalits, OBCs?
ThePrint
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the Narendra Modi government saying that it is “in the DNA” of the BJP and RSS to end the reservation policy ...
Dalit outfits seek DNA-based NRC, withdrawal of Citizenship Amendment Act
Ahmedabad Mirror
Gorakhpur: Dalit outfits here ran a postcard campaign against the Citizenship Amendment Act and sought a DNA- based National Register of Citizens.
BJP against Dalit-Backward; CAA being used to divide the society, says Priyanka Gandhi in ...
National Herald
Terming the saffron party as “Dalit-Backward Virodhi”, Priyanka in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh said that CAA is being used to divide the society.
Congress to fight Centre's anti-Dalit, backward classes stand
Deccan Chronicle
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee has decided to take up massive protests against anti-Dalit and backward classes ...
Bring DNA-based NRC to know original residents; withdraw CAA: Dalit outfits in Uttar Pradesh
Times Now
Dalit outfits in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur urged the central government to bring a DNA-based National Register of Citizens (NRC) in order to ...
Now Dalits getting a fair deal, says MLA
The Hindu
Vemuru MLA Merugu Nagarjuna has said that Dalits have been solidly behind YSRCP chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for the last ten years and the ...
BJP regime anti-Dalit and anti-Backward: Rajbhar
Daily Pioneer
Hitting out at the Yogi Adityanath government, former minister and Suheldeo Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar said that the Bharatiya ...
India Today peddles fake news about 3000 Dalits converting to Islam after wall collapse, here is ...
OpIndia
In a report, India Today group claimed that close to 3,000 people from the Dalit community converted to Islam in Mettupalayam, Coimbatore, after ...
BJP is anti-Dalit & anti-backward: Om Prakash Rajbhar
United News of India
Ghazipur, Feb 12 (UNI) Hitting out at the Yogi Adityanath Government, president of Suheldeo Bharatiya Samaj Party Om Prakash Rajbhar on .
Bhim Army chief calls for Feb 23 shut down against SC verdict
Daijiworld.com
He also warned that if the MPs and MLAs of the backward and Dalit classes did not support the call, there would be a demonstration in front of their ...
Sangrur: Dalits accuse village landlords of forcibly stopping water supply, SC commission steps in
The Indian Express
Tolewala has about 40 houses belonging to the Dalit community. They have alleged that tubewell room of water works department was locked due to ...
Panel to educate Dalits on impact of CAA, NRC & NPR
Deccan Chronicle
Hyderabad: The Alliance against the CAA and the NRC, Hyderabad Chapter, has decided to hold 'Basti Sabhas' to educate people belonging to the ...
'Discriminated, treated like animals': Over 400 Dalits convert to Islam in Tamil Nadu; 3000 in queue
Times Now
Coimbatore: Hundreds of Dalits in Mettupalayam, Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu converted to Islam claiming that they faced casteist 'discrimination' by ...
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS-WESTERN REGION AT 1700 HRS
Outlook India
Solapur: A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by 10 persons for over six months in Maharashtra''s Solapur district, police said on Wednesday.
Transfer of CEO will not affect inquiry: Collector
The Hindu
Dalit Intellectual Collective, a Dalit rights organisation, demanded that the headmaster must be booked under provisions of the Protection of Children ...
Experts dwell on literature at Punjabi University
The Tribune
The Centre for Advanced Studies, Punjabi Department, Punjabi University, is organising a two-day national seminar on “Punjabi kavita: Women, Dalit ...
Caste Out Of Campus: Apartheid Methods Of Public Classification Lead To Prejudice
Outlook India
Locals point out that when IIT-Madras was being set up, it took at least 76 acres of land belonging to the Dalit community following agreements ...
In a minority, but a major presence in our prisons - Times of India
Times of India
People from marginalised sections — Muslims, dalits and tribals — are over-represented in Indian jails, shows a recent National Crime Records ...
Dalits support decentralisation: Meruga Nagarjuna
The Hans India
Amaravati: YSRCP criticised that during the TDP rule Dalits lands were encroached and also attacked them in many instances. Addressing at a press ...
Youth gets life term for raping minor girl in Hisar
Hindustan Times
A local court on Wednesday sentenced a 24-year-old to life imprisonment for raping and impregnating a minor Dalit girl of a village in Hansi ...
Delhi Congress recast imminent, says Lilothia
Outlook India
"The Dalit vote shifted to AAP... the party should now come up with a strategy to get this chunk of voters back," said Lilothia. He also called for better ...
Gujarat: School trustee held for raping 15-year-old student
Deccan Herald
... of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Acts, as the victim belongs to the Dalit community, ...
500 postcards against CAA, NRC posted to PM Modi
Times of India
... Amendment Act, National Register of Citizenship (NRC) and NPR were posted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Dalit outfit Poorvanchal Sena, ...
An art entrepreneur
The Hindu
Along the way, I have been helped by many people, including women and the dalit community.” She is happy that more women are performing.
RJD hopes for Lalu's release before Bihar assembly polls
Economic Times
He targeted RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his comments on job reservations and galvanised OBC and Dalit votes in favour of the grand alliance.
Mah Kranthi Sena stages sit-in to protest against recent fatal assaults on women
United News of India
Aurangabad (Maharashtra), Feb 12 (UNI) Maharashtra Kranthi Sena(MKS) on Wednesday staged a sit-in agitation in front of the District Collector ...
'What Government is Scared of Non-Violent Citizens?' ask Anti-CAA Activists Arrested in UP
NewsClick
The recent crackdown was seen when scores of cultural, political, Dalit and student activists were arrested for protesting against the Citizenship ...
Won't object to CBI probe in Walayar rape case if victims' parents demand same in HC: Pinarayi ...
Yahoo India News
The case pertains to two minor Dalit girls, who were found hanging inside their one-room home in the border district of Walayar in Palakkad 52 days ...
BJP leader calls for strict punishment in crimes against women
News Today
Besides,a 50 year old Dalit woman was set ablaze last week by a man after she resisted his move to enter her house in Aurangabad district.
