Hisar, India, December 19 (KMS): A 38-year-old Dalit labourer was beaten to death in India’s highly dominated communal state, Haryana. The victim, identified as Vinod, a daily wage labourer, was beaten to death by a group of Hindutva goons at the Mirkan village of Hisar district of the state. The …
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Washington D.C., December 03 (KMS): Harvard University in United States of America has added caste as a protected category for all graduate and undergraduate student workers. The historic addition marks Harvard as the first Ivy League school to have caste equity protection in its non-discrimination clause for unionised student workers. …
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In the latest episode of caste-based violence, a Dalit labourer Ashok Saket’s hand was chopped off by his upper-caste Hindu employer when he demanded his wages in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district. The incident happened in Dolmau village on 21 November. Saket was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in critical condition …
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Karnataka, October 19 (KMS): Dalit organizations in Mangaluru have demanded the arrest of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Narayan Rai, who has been accused of raping a minor Dalit girl, working in a plantation owned by the Hindutva leader in a Karnataka village. Dalit leaders alleged that though the girl named …
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