DEHRADUN: In a significant assertion of self-determination, the Dalit community of Bijnu Bijnad village in the remote Jaunsar-Bawar region of Uttarakhand has broken a 150-year-old social convention by ...

Six men were arrested Thursday in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly raping and killing two teenage girls whose bodies were found hanging from a tree a day earlier. The 15- and ...

On Aug. 27, Pope Francis will create 21 new cardinals at a consistory at the Vatican. The new cardinals include the first Indian cardinal from the socially poor Dalit community – Archbishop Anthony ...

Senior Congress leader and former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi is said to have complained at a recent meeting that Dalit leaders were being sidelined in the party.

Anthony Poola, archbishop of Hyderabad, bends to kiss the gospel during Maundy Thursday service at St Joseph Cathedral Church in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Credit: Mahesh Kumar A./AP.

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

Social media influencer Hansira from Nuh was arrested for using derogatory language against the Dalit community in a video. Charged under the SC-ST Act, she apologized for her offensive remarks but ...

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court has issued a notice to the state govt and the sarpanch of Paldi village panchayat in Banaskantha district in response to a petition filed by 20 villagers booked under ...

In a viral FB video, Hansira, sitting in her car at a petrol pump, compared long CNG queue to Dalit community in an offensive and obscene manner ...

My community of Dalit women are doubly oppressed by caste and gender. Women in my community are the most vulnerable to sexual violence in India, for example. But to say that we are only limited by our ...

An official of the Indian bishops has decried upper-caste Hindu men attacking and urinating on a man from the socially poor Dalit community, the third such incident in less than three months. “I have ...