A Anandavalli was elected on a Communist Party of India (Marxist) ticket in the recently concluded local body election and elevated to the post of block president on Wednesday.
By Ramesh Babu, Thiruvananthapuram
For almost 10 years she had swept floors and dusted chairs at the panchayat office but on Wednesday...
By Puja Awasthi
A 30-year Dalit youth in Azamgarh has alleged that he was beaten by some upper caste men when he honked at them so that they can make way for him to pass on the road.
Ram Pravesh, a resident of Balapur village, was out on his motorbike to...
By Sakkaravarthi Simon
Gingee: The Thurumbars, who are often dubbed “the Dalit of the Dalit” and the “unseen” on December 23 uniquely celebrated Christmas at the town of Gingee in Tamil Nadu state.
The Thurumbars are the last rung of people in the Indian caste-ridden hierarchical Tamil society. They are the...
By Sujata Jena
Bhubaneswar: Before Christmas, I visited 12 rural parishes of Berhampur and Rayagada dioceses to mobilize students for civil service preparation and become part of nation-building
The visit was undertaken as part of a campaign of the Excellent IAS Academy, an initiative of Odisha Catholic Bishops’ Council to prepare Dalit...
The police took the victim’s father-in-law Chinna Eeranna and uncle Pedda Eeranna into custody following a complaint from his 25-year-old wife.
A 30-year-old Dalit youth was killed in broad day light in Adoni town of Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district in an alleged hate crime by his in-laws on Thursday, the police said.
By Elaine D’Souza
Mumbai: Everyone wants to start afresh on New Year’s Day and hence make resolutions. I am one of them too.
What’s with the extreme excitement at the start of the New Year and then as the year progresses there is slack. Resolutions are resolved and dissolved before time...
By Elaine D’Souza
Mumbai: Christmas for me is not just a feeling but an emotion. “How many of us on our birthday would appreciate a generic greeting card meant for just anybody?” Don’t we all like personalised greetings?
The season of Advent leading to Christmas allows us to personalise our greetings...
By Shanti Pulickal
Berhampur, Odisha: Every year, around Christmas time, we were sure of receiving any phone calls from the prisoners, ‘When is the Christmas Mass? Will the bishop be coming? What are the songs to be selected and so on? But this year they were silent and we kept wondering.
New Delhi: The following statement, signed, among others, by Fr Prakash Luis, SJ, Fr Cedric Prakash SJ, Fr Ajaya Singh and Dr John Dayal, is being released to the media on the eve of New Year 2021 as a suggested agenda for the Christian community across denominations, for the coming year.
The statement calls...
Local residents allegedly harassed and verbally abused the 65-year-old lawyer before calling more people to attack him
A 65-year-old Dalit lawyer succumbed to injuries on December 27, 2020, mere 10 days after suffering an alleged assault outside a grocery shop in Bharuch city in Gujarat, reported the Indian Express.
According to...
