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Day after ‘removed’ from Ram Lila event venue, Dalit man ‘ends life’ in Kasganj

October 09, 2024 7:47 am

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav targeted the government, accusing the ruling BJP of “humiliating” Dalits.

Third executive at Bengaluru apparel firm gets bail in Dalit worker suicide case

July 03, 2023 9:08 pm

In a video posted on social media before his death, Vivek Raj said he had to endure caste-based abuse and harassment.

Photo of Tadvi’s suicide note found on her cellphone: Cops

July 06, 2019 10:10 am

“We suspect Tadvi had an inkling that the accused would try to destroy the actual suicide note and hence, took a photograph of the note on the phone,” said an officer.

Payal Tadvi suicide case: Special court rejects bail plea of three accused doctors

June 24, 2019 4:08 pm

Mumbai Police had previously opposed the bail application of the three doctors stating that they did not provide satisfactory answers during the course of interrogation.

Gujarat forms SIT to probe Dalit suicide

February 23, 2018 4:39 am

Dalit Activist Bhanu Vankar set himself on fire on February 15 demanding allotment of land to two landless Dalit families at Dudhka village of Patan district.

Rohith Vemula march: Two of six students Dalit, one from BPL family

February 23, 2016 7:31 am

The families of the two Dalit students, Rama Naga and Anant Prakash Narayan, say they cannot even afford to travel to Delhi to meet their children.

Bandaru Dattatreya writes to Smriti Irani again, this time for rural council

February 04, 2016 2:53 am

Dattatreya’s letter assumes significance against the backdrop of a raging debate on political interference in academic institutions and academic matters.

The ghetto on campus

September 06, 2018 12:36 am

The record of the intervention of Central Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and the HRD ministry raises doubts about Apparao’s role in awarding the punishment.

Vested interests trying to show Rohith was not Dalit: Karnataka CM

February 02, 2016 6:40 pm

In a letter to Vemula's mother Radhika, Siddaramaiah expressed regret that the university campus has become a "place for unscrupulous elements to achieve their politically motivated, caste-based agenda."

Rohith Vemula's suicide: This is what Carl Sagan's wife had to say about his death

February 01, 2016 1:59 pm

Carl Sagan's wife Ann Druyan has reacted to Rohith Vemula's suicide. This is what she had to say.

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