KOPPAL: A sessions court in Karnataka on Thursday sentenced 98 people to life imprisonment and handed five-year jail terms to three others in a 2014 case of discrimination and caste violence targeting Dalits at Marakumbi village of Gangavati taluk.Judge Chandrasekhar C convicted 101 people in the case, of whom three received lighter sentences because Scheduled…
MEERUT/DEHRADUN: Daulat Kunwar has been imprisoned several times. Once behind bars, it was the same story each time for the Dalit activist. “Caste discrimination starts the moment an inmate steps into a prison, it is real and it has been going on for many years,” Kunwar told TOI in shocking revelations that were echoed by…
NEW DELHI: Keeping his ante against Congress a day after Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir assembly election results, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday once again targeted Congress for its defeat and accused the grand old party of deliberately creating a “fear psychosis” among Muslims.Speaking at an event in which he laid foundation stone for…
NEW DELHI: The parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday launched a fierce critique at leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi for his comments about the absence of Dalits and Adivasis from the Miss India list, made during a ‘Samvidhaan Samman Sammelan’ on Saturday.Rijiju took his sharp response to X, saying, “Now, he wants reservations in…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party’s Dalit functionaries have dubbed the proposal of sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes a ploy to “divide and rule”, arguing that the party stands strongly for the unity of the community as prescribed by Ambedkar.Veteran MPs RK Chaudhary and Awadhesh Prasad told TOI that division of SCs into sub-groups will sound the death…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur, whose caste attack on Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha has triggered a storm, on Thursday doubled down on his attacks against the Congress leader and invoked remarks of former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru to prove how his family has always been against reservations for…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha on Tuesday witnessed a massive face-off between the treasury and opposition benches after BJP leader and former Union minister Anurag Thakur targeted leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi over caste census and used a remark, which was later expunged by the Speaker.“OBC ki baat, janganana ki baat bahut ki jati hai. Jiske…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had got off to a good start. His early emphasis on ‘Pichde (backward), Dalit, Alpasankhyak (minorities)’ was combined with a sharp focus on farmer issues, joblessness, paper leaks and rising prices. It turned out to be one of his best election strategies, backed by intelligent candidate selection.The Samajwadi Party…
LAXMANPUR-BATHE/SENARI: A worn-out sari partly covers her head as Uma Devi, 45, sits forlornly at the door of her unplastered house. Campaign vehicles belonging to various political parties come and go by, blaring poll slogans but she remains unmoved, her eyes barren of hope.Laxmanpur-Bathe village, where the soil still whispers the anguish of the 1997…
