THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Raising concerns about a relatively unaddressed issue in the state’s higher education sector, students from SC and ST communities make up cl ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) lauded the Supreme Court's decision invalidating discriminatory bail conditions in ...

In recent years, a number of colleges and universities have added caste to their list of prohibited classifications under their anti-discrimination policies. Two Hindu professors at a public ...

In 2015, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a young activist, scholar, and co-founder of Equality Labs — a dalit civil rights organisation — spearheaded the first nationwide survey on caste discrimination in ...

Allegedly denied rental accommodation on caste grounds, several lower-rank Karnataka police personnel said they were forced ...

The Supreme Court of India granted a final opportunity on Tuesday for states and union territories to comply with its directives to eradicate caste discrimination within prisons. This development ...

Rajkot: Five persons from Bhutdi village in Visavadar taluka have been booked under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes ...

The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday, April 16, approved the draft of the Rohith Vemula Bill (Prevention of Discrimination, ...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat urged people to support inter-caste marriages to eradicate societal discrimination. Speaking in ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...