Scheduled Caste News

In a Tamil Nadu village, human feces was found in a water tank The contamination seems to be a planned attack motivated by caste

Scheduled Tribes will get quota of 32 per cent, Other Backward Classes 27 per cent, Scheduled Caste 13 per cent, while 4 per cent has been provisioned for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in public employment and admissions in educational institutions

While the BJP says it is confident Dalits will vote for it in the state Assembly polls due this year-end, the Congress says it is paying attention to seats with 10 per cent or more Dalit population

FM directs banks to enhance coverage of SCs in all schemes. FM advised looking into their needs for capacity building. The community constitute about 18 per cent of the total workforce.

Arvind Kejriwal promised free medical services to the people belonging to the SC category "Channi Sahab is only playing his SC card to gather votes": Arvind Kejriwal

Union Cabinet reshuffle expected today Ministerial probables have arrived in the national capital Pashupati Kumar Paras said he had received a call from Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday

An SC bench on Friday stayed criminal proceedings against Munmun Dutta for allegedly using a casteist slur Earlier, the actor had triggered an outrage with an YouTube video, leading to lodging of FIRs under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act

A video of Munmun Dutta using a particular word against the community had gone viral on social media recently. After a fortnight an FIR has been lodged in Mumbai against television star Munmun Dutta.

A video of Munmun Dutta using a particular word against the community had gone viral on social media recently. Based on a complaint lodged by Akhil Bharatiya Balai Mahasangh president Manoj Parmar, an FIR was registered against Dutta.

Munmun Dutta had taken to Twitter on Monday to put her side of the story. The complainant has alleged that Dutta made derogatory remarks against people belonging to the scheduled caste.

The Centre wants all private television channels to stop using the term 'Dalit'.

In April 2010, a 70-year-old Dalit man and his physically-challenged daughter were burnt alive by a mob of over 100 people which included members of the dominant Jat community in Hissar's Mirchpur village.

"Even today SC/ST people are socially backward and not allowed to marry higher caste people and ride horses," the AG said.

Seeking to know current process of promotions, the court asked: "How the promotion is taking place as of now?" The responded by saying: "They are not. It is all standstill. This is the problem".

Parochial and knee-jerk reactions from the political class and intellectuals have left no room for meaningful interface and dialogue over the Supreme Court's order on the SC/ST Act.

The SC has pulled a balancing act before with empowering laws. It needs only to look at dowry if it wants to ensure justice with the SC/ST Act.

With country-wide Bharat Bandh protests by Dalit groups turning bloody on Monday morning with the death of two people, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) entered a mud-slinging contest on social media. Sparring on Twitter, the parties blamed each other for atrocities against Dalits.

Is the SC/ST Act often misused against government officials or is any modification to it really just a move against the SC and ST communities?

VK Singh had kicked up a storm with his alleged remarks in connection with the Faridabad incident that the government could not be blamed if anyone threw a stone at a dog.

The Delhi University's release of zero cut off for SC, ST students in pursuing PhD in Mathematics has raised massive criticisms on the social media.