The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has now taken up a complaint of caste discrimination at the hands of the campus placement offices in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ...

Tribal migrants now face the same conditions as those Scheduled Caste groups who have historically been performing this labour in both urban and rural areas. Workers said that unionising would help ...

Adding an ironic layer to the hostility, MAGA supporters have hit back at Indians calling out racism by pointing to casteism and the rigid enforcement of caste endogamy within Indian communities.

Urbanisation is often cited as an antidote to the influence of caste in society. So, does politics rise above caste in urban pockets? Delhi is, perhaps, the only Union Territory (UT) with a large ...

In a controversial move, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) printed caste categories on the hall tickets for students appearing for the upcoming Higher ...

In hilly and forested areas, northeastern and Himalayan states, and villages having more than 50% scheduled caste and/or scheduled tribe population, the contribution would be 5% of the capital cost.

As many will know, it can just take one cruel comment to knock your confidence to rock bottom, and it’s an experience artist and actor Nitin Ganatra is very familiar with. Best known as ...

Rutgers University in the US has decided not to create a separate category for caste-based discrimination, stating it's already covered under existing policies. The decision was welcomed by Hindu ...