Arippa crisis resolved after all-party meet

Madhuri Krishnaswamy, leader of Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS) which works for health and labour rights in south-western Madhya Pradesh, was remanded in judicial custody for a fortnight on Thursday. Ms. Krishnaswamy, popularly called Madhuri Ben, and ...

In the matter of undoing the wrongs done to dalits and adivasis in the country, one state has set a precedent.

KMU asserts that their hard work in fighting against the displacement of adivasis, dalits, and poor farmers? communities to give way to mining and other industrial operations does not merit such brutal harassment and repressive measures in an ...

After forming separate organisations like Pattikajathi Kshema Samithi and Adivasi Kshema Samithi to reach out to Dalits and tribals respectively, the CPM is now trying to woo the Muslim community through the print media. A tri-monthly in Malayalam ...

Yog guru Swami Ramdev performing Charan Pooja of Dalit and Adivasi women prior to inaugurating a conference of Women Empowerment in

Is there any point in repeatedly allocating big sums of money exclusively for Dalits and Adivasis, without any idea of what is to be done with these?

Concerned over reports of 2,230 dalit and adivasi girls going missing from five districts of Madhya Pradesh in last seven years, the National Human Rights Commission today asked for a status report from the state government. The NHRC took suo motu cognisance ...

All the movements that talk of the betterment of Dalits centre around the demand for land for the community. This is because the lower caste, who has no land holdings, has to work as labourers on the landlord's farmland. The wages that he gets in ...

Maharashtra, despite being considered as a progressive state and home town of Dalit rights movement, has become a hotbed of open caste-based attacks, with as many as 10 such cases being reported from the interiors. Social activists say that very few cases see ...