Dalit News Flash


 - US State Dept Report on Religious freedom (12 May)
 - Durban conference must discuss Caste issue (12 May)
 - Bara trial: Defence counsel questions change of diary (12 May)
 - Chronicle of a diary's progress (12 May)
 - Tribal welfare: NGOs' help sought (12 May)
 - AP finalises plan to fight injustice against Dalits (12 May)
 - Officials accused of harassing Dalits (12 May)
 - Dalit MLAs warned (12 May)
 - Rumours drive anthropologists out of Garo Hills (12 May)
 - Jhabua witnesses decline in population growth rate (12 May)
 - BSP to spearhead agitation against evicting dalit settlements (12 May)
 - India offers help to restore Tajik Buddha (11 May)
 - Special courts to deal with atrocities (11 May)
 - Novelty Buddha statues outrage Thai Buddhists (11 May)
 - CRPF men get clean chit in Dalit rape case (11 May)
 - BC body seeks quota in colleges (11 May)
 - SCs want Dalit PPCC president (11 May)
 - State govt identifies 800 villages as ‘caste-sensitive’ (11 May)
 - Police ‘inaction’ resented (11 May)
 - 'Sensitive' areas where violence against Dalits prevails, identified (11 May)
 - BSP leader urges State Govt to create Haj committee (11 May)
 - Globalisation And The Dalits (9 May)
 - Pioneering Social Justice (9 May)
 - Nationwide review of tribals under way (9 May)
 - SC/ST backlog vacancies to be filled soon (9 May)
 - It is Thevars Vs Dalits in Madurai (9 May)
 - Free as a fugitive in lawless Bihar (9 May)
 - BSP leader deposes in St Kitts forgery case (9 May)
 - Buddhists nurse a grouse with state govt (9 May)
 - Govt teaching tribals small family norm (9 May)
 - Buddha's message still relevant: Rabri (9 May)
 - Starvation deaths continue... (9 May)
 - Dalit leaders from Telangana join TRS (9 May)
 - How tribals land themselves in and out of trouble (9 May)
 - Caste feud on Siddartha campus (9 May)
 - Buddha Poornima observed (8 May)
 - The 'thought cops' are on the prowl (8 May)
 - Interview with Paul Diwakar (8 May)
 - Red tape claims life (8 May)
 - Caste cauldron keeps forces on toes (8 May)
 - Lumbini Festival concludes (8 May)
 - Mala Mahanadu launches relay fast over attack (8 May)
 - 'Reservation issue to be decided in 15 days' (8 May)
 - Ranabir Sena threatens more bloodshed (8 May)
 - Issue fresh notification on Babri case: Mayawati (8 May)
 - Buddha's ashes to be displayed in Patna museum (8 May)
 - Rise of caste in Dravida land (8 May)
 - BSP makes headway in Raichur (8 May)
 - Blind faith keeps alive buried history (8 May)
 - 18 persons arrested for harassing three Dalits (8 May)
 - Dalit body trains guns against PV Rao (8 May)
 - Dalits are hurt, says Bangaru Laxman (8 May)
 - Firebrand image may consume PT chief (8 May)
 - Bathinda SP's file of probe sought (8 May)
 - Of excommunicated families and law-fearing villagers (8 May)
 - In the heart of darkness, they make light (8 May)
 - 7 Dalit organisations in Kerala to support UDF (8 May)
 - C K Janu ends hunger strike (8 May)
 - Mayawati takes on ghoshna mantri (8 May)
 - Digvijay flays MCI for 'anti-reservation' stand (8 May)
 - ‘Lambada thandas in poor shape’ (8 May)
 - Campaign against Astrology in Universities (8 May)
 - Update on BJP activists' intimidation of a Bookseller(Mumbai) (8 May)
 - Tribal dies due to starvartion (4 May)
 - Where DMK banks on the Dalit vote (4 May)
 - Their right... near, yet so far (4 May)
 - Registered, inter-faith marriages on the rise (4 May)
 - Mahabodhi Temple may get world heritage site status (4 May)
 - Lambadas plan dharna against sale of infants (4 May)
 - Leaders allege harassment of tribals (4 May)
 - ITDA draws flak for underutilising welfare funds (4 May)
 - After AP, child adoption racket unearthed in Orissa (4 May)
 - 3-day Lumbini fest from May 5 (4 May)
 - J&K talks: PDP, BSP take opposite stand (4 May)
 - Plots for Dalits in Punjab (4 May)
 - Package tours for Lumbini festival (4 May)
 - Agnivesh team files affidavit (4 May)
 - Karia Munda appointed chief of SCs, STs panel (4 May)
 - BJP activists intimidate Book Seller (4 May)
 - Say no to the quacks to the quacks (4 May)
 - Seminar focuses on environment and Dalits (1 May)
 - 17 arrested for parading tribal woman naked (1 May)
 - The rise and rise of Dr Krishnaswamy (1 May)
 - She defies age in fight against mafia (1 May)
 - BSP looks forward to U.P., Punjab polls (1 May)
 - Even God is an 'outcaste' here (1 May)
 - Quota for weaker sections in private sector demanded (1 May)
 - Dalits urged to oppose Constitution review (1 May)
 - Wooing voters with Buddha, Maurya king (1 May)
 - Six booked for beating Dalits (1 May)
 - Where superstition, black magic thrive (1 May)
 - Minor Dalit girl raped at Kallipalli village (1 May)
 - Tribals resort to a unique form of protest (1 May)
 - Discrepancies in reservation alleged (1 May)
 - Father claims he sold her tribal daughter (1 May)
 - 'Recognition For The Language Of My People Is The Biggest Award I Can Win' (30 Apr)
 - To my many critics, with all my love (30 Apr)
 - 'BSP will fight the polls on its own' (30 Apr)
 - Pamphlet on Buddhist sites released (30 Apr)
 - Steps to sort out problems of Gujjars (30 Apr)
 - Madigas to demand for separate reservation in state' (30 Apr)
 - CSI's plans to weed out bogus Christians (30 Apr)
 - IAS officer suspended (30 Apr)
 - Torture victims Baitha, cleaner turn hostile (30 Apr)
 - Poll boom in barren diara as exiles return to vote (30 Apr)
 - 'Centre's guarantee for Enron is illegal' (30 Apr)
 - MLAs' plea to protect tribal interest (28 Apr)
 - Noolpuzha tribesmen's boycott threat rattles politicians (28 Apr)
 - Lambadas neglected (28 Apr)
 - She has not realised mistakes: Krishnasamy (28 Apr)
 - Tarkunde against Vedic methods for increasing foodgrains output (28 Apr)
 - Caught between two faiths, village lets food have final say (28 Apr)
 - State govt seeks details of Central funding to NGOs (28 Apr)
 - NGOs warned against misusing Christian names (28 Apr)
 - BJP seeks police bandobust for Laxman (28 Apr)
 - Caste factor to play major role in civic polls (28 Apr)
 - High drama at adoption centre (28 Apr)
 - Forward castes accused of abusing Dalits (28 Apr)
 - Caste is a word India just doesn't want to hear (26 Apr)
 - Digvijay for the cause of Tribals (26 Apr)
 - Inter-caste marriage claims girl (26 Apr)
 - Ancient buddha images traced in Bengal (26 Apr)
 - Minorities, Dalits urge Sinha to drop changes in bill (26 Apr)
 - Anomalies in promotion for SC, ST to be removed: Vajpayee (26 Apr)
 - Free power for SCs, STs only in Chhatisgarh (26 Apr)
 - Street dwellers deprived of voting rights (26 Apr)
 - Tribal body flays Govt for failing to curb sale of kids (26 Apr)
 - With Christ on their walls, food is in their bellies (26 Apr)
 - Special scheme for SCs in agency areas (26 Apr)
 - SC Welfare Corporation achieves 100 p c target (26 Apr)
 - Adivasi Janadhikar Manch threatens for an indefinite bandh (26 Apr)
 - Tribals, refugees at loggerheads security beefed up (26 Apr)
 - Drought forces tribals out of Ghatli (26 Apr)
 - BSP rules out joining third front (26 Apr)
 - Caste-based segregation at JNTU hostels: SFI (26 Apr)
 - BSP MP writes to Advani on threat (26 Apr)
 - NGOs try to put Dalits on UN list (26 Apr)
 - Foreigners opt for Lambada babies (26 Apr)
 - Bhawanipur encounter was a massacre: Report (26 Apr)
 - BSP walkout in Parishad (26 Apr)
 - Tribal girls take to bootlegging in drought-hit Gujarat (26 Apr)
 - Sikkim gets Rs 1.21 crore more funds for tribal welfare (26 Apr)
 - Kanshi Ram admits to have ignored Punjab (26 Apr)
 - Oppression pushes Dalits towards conversion (26 Apr)
 - Digvijay for review of 1980 Forest Act (26 Apr)
 - UGC’s move on astrology opposed (26 Apr)
 - This man walked 50 km, with the body of his son (26 Apr)
 - Ensuring tribal involvement in conservation (26 Apr)
 - BJP seeks status report on Banjaras (26 Apr)
 - Atrocities against Dalits surface in village near Bhopal (26 Apr)
 - Ambedkar followers in Britain allege casteism in quake relief (26 Apr)
 - Fame of shame for Meenakshipuram (26 Apr)
 - Sponsored Scholarship (26 Apr)
 - Poverty forces parents to force girl child into marriage (26 Apr)
 - Puthiya Thamizhagam promises 19 per cent reservation for Dalits (26 Apr)
 - Caste turn friends to foes (23 Apr)
 - ‘Forum needed to fight atrocities against Dalits’ (23 Apr)
 - CoD begins probe into sale of girl babies (23 Apr)
 - Party, caste lines polarisation in TN’S Thevar belt (23 Apr)
 - Stakes high for Ranvir Sena in next round of polls (23 Apr)
 - Orissa tribe wedded to unique custom heads for extinction (23 Apr)
 - 73 infants rescued in Andhra Pradesh (23 Apr)
 - Clashes as Dalits stopped at tap (23 Apr)
 - Malnutrition of Maharashtra tribal children (23 Apr)
 - Anxious adivasis of Dewas await CM's visit (23 Apr)
 - Dalit consolidation and polarisation (23 Apr)
 - Ambedkar, the Hindu antagonised by Manusmriti (23 Apr)
 - Voting rights still elude most Dalits (23 Apr)
 - Foul smell emanates as 28 female infants die in orphange (23 Apr)
 - Dalits storm Ram mandir in Vizag district (21 Apr)
 - Krishnasamy to contest 2 seats (21 Apr)
 - Sale of baby girls (21 Apr)
 - 10 lakh Dalits to embrace Buddhism (21 Apr)
 - Scientists oppose move to introduce astrology courses (21 Apr)
 - God, a distant reality for Dalits (21 Apr)
 - A tribal’s fight against political corruption (19 Apr)
 - Stripped nude for offering water (19 Apr)
 - Dalit politics takes a new turn (19 Apr)
 - Dalits demonstrate against of untouchability (19 Apr)
 - SC/ST unemployed engineers threaten stir (19 Apr)
 - Are SC primary schools in UP destined to die? (19 Apr)
 - KDF flays LDF, UDF (19 Apr)
 - Alvi vs Ambanis: MP speaks of black sheep in the PMO (19 Apr)
 - Dalit activists stage dharna demanding the arrest of assailants (19 Apr)
 - Brave chants: Enterprising Dalit youth refuse to bow down to the "virtuous" men (19 Apr)
 - The caste shadow: Biases continue to castigate Dalits in rural Rajasthan (19 Apr)
 - Homeless truths: Caste prejudices haunt Ahmedabad’s hostels and colonies (19 Apr)
 - Padayatra against caste discrimination (18 Apr)
 - Is the World Watching ? (18 Apr)
 - Mayawati woos Bangaru (18 Apr)
 - Untouchability in AP (18 Apr)
 - Project to rehabilitate Devadasis planned (17 Apr)
 - No work initiated yet at Udupi Ambedkar Bhavan (17 Apr)
 - DMK manifesto to include memorial for Dalit warrior (17 Apr)
 - Dalits will emerge as a force : DPI (17 Apr)
 - Cold-blooded killing of Dalits in Bhavanipur (16 Apr)
 - 110th birth anniversary of Ambedkar celebrated (16 Apr)
 - Ambedkar and Cricket (16 Apr)
 - Ambedkar Birthday With A Difference (16 Apr)
 - Kanshi Ram wants power for Dalits (16 Apr)
 - Nation pays tribute to Ambedkar (16 Apr)
 - Fourteenth April 2001 (16 Apr)
 - Mhow to be renamed after Ambedkar (16 Apr)
 - Of Carpets, Slaves and India's Stolen Children (16 Apr)
 - Dalit panchayat chiefs vow to fight caste domination (16 Apr)
 - Dalit LPG tenderers win legal battle (16 Apr)
 - Decorative pieces in the party showcase (16 Apr)
 - Dalits defy age-old tradition (16 Apr)
 - 'Globalisation has denied poor jobs' (16 Apr)
 - 7-Month tour to clean up casteism (16 Apr)
 - Focus On Dalit Issues (16 Apr)
 - Denial in death (16 Apr)
 - Chariot yatra to fight casteism (16 Apr)
 - Dalits fined Rs 5000 for entering temple (16 Apr)
 - Ambedkar statue : Controversy over Govt's talk with Dalit bodies (16 Apr)
 - Ministers hold peace meet to unite Dalits (16 Apr)
 - Insurgents burn Buddhist temple, Chakma huts (16 Apr)
 - Dalit panchayat presidents meet in City (16 Apr)
 - Dalits to stir for protection of rights (16 Apr)
 - Attack on workers: BSP threatens stir (16 Apr)
 - Kerala Govn.decides to install Ambedkar statue (16 Apr)
 - R.S.S. Creating Havoc In Kutch (16 Apr)
 - Dalit girl's alleged rape kicks up political storm (16 Apr)
 - Blurred caste lines redrawn after earthquake (16 Apr)
 - Globalisation works unfavourably weaker sections (16 Apr)
 - The U.N., racism and caste (10 Apr)
 - One million Dalits to embrace Buddhism (10 Apr)
 - Ambedkar Statue: Kerala Speaker in controversy (10 Apr)
 - True lies: Is astrology a science? (10 Apr)
 - Vizag to host Lumbini Festival (10 Apr)
 - Divisional recruitment panels soon to fill SC/ST vacancies (10 Apr)
 - Banjara Sangh seeks CBI probe into sale of girl babiest (10 Apr)
 - 75,000 reserved seats in Indian univ. lying vacant (9 Apr)
 - Land transfer act to be amended (9 Apr)
 - Govt directs depts to fill SC/ST vacancies (9 Apr)
 - "Rehabilitate tribals or allow them into parks" (7 Apr)
 - "Govt victimised me to sabotage reservation"-Mathew (7 Apr)
 - Govt to ensure fair role for SC/STs in co-ops (7 Apr)
 - Preparations on for Ambedkar's birth anniversary (7 Apr)
 - 2 womens' rights activists to get Neerja Bhanot award (7 Apr)
 - 3 tribals killed in police firing (7 Apr)
 - Judge stops RSS goons saffronising MS Univ (7 Apr)
 - Liquor sale banned in tribal areas (7 Apr)
 - SHSAD, BSP may form 'people front' (7 Apr)
 - Plan to rehabilitate 154 evicted tribal families (7 Apr)
 - `Untouchable' fined, beaten for entering Orissa village temple (7 Apr)
 - Justice K. G. Balakrishnan: Rising From Down Under (5 Apr)
 - Dalit youth’s alleged suicide snowballs (5 Apr)
 - Is Mathew being persecuted..? (5 Apr)
 - Tribals caught between devil and deep sea (5 Apr)
 - Gulbarga SP to probe sale of girl babies (5 Apr)
 - Buddha Saved Me (5 Apr)
 - Boy sacrificed to please god (5 Apr)
 - Saints come out openly against VHP (5 Apr)
 - KPMS rally for Ambedkar statue turns violent (5 Apr)
 - Wake up call for the private sector (5 Apr)
 - Minister confirms sale of baby girls (5 Apr)
 - Panchayat polls heighten caste tension (5 Apr)
 - India's first patent for Kerala Tribal's anti-diabetic drug (5 Apr)
 - Official observance of Jagjivan Ram anniversary sought (5 Apr)
 - Priests lure women to sex slavery (5 Apr)
 - Relics of Bamiyan Buddhas on sale (5 Apr)
 - Kanshi Ram meets Kamal Chaudhry (5 Apr)
 - BJP may use Paswan to erode base of BSP (5 Apr)
 - Shelter SC/ST kids, Kharge urges seer (5 Apr)
 - Cong shedding 'crocodile tears' over Dalits (5 Apr)
 - Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld (2 Apr)
 - Old Dalit couple attacked at home (2 Apr)
 - It's 'vote your caste' in Tamil Nadu (2 Apr)
 - SP, BSP battling for 2nd spot in Haidergarh (2 Apr)
 - NCW Project on Devadasis (30 Mar)
 - Tribal 'wife' of Nehru is outcast, driven to poverty (30 Mar)
 - CM urged to fill up backlog vacancies in govt depts (30 Mar)
 - DYFI protests govt move to downsize govt posts (30 Mar)
 - US raises Buddha statues issue at UNCHR (30 Mar)
 - Caste is a variety of race (30 Mar)
 - Pappu Yadav arrested for threatening Dalit MLA (30 Mar)
 - Idukki: estate owner captures tribal land (30 Mar)
 - Dalit BJP leaders flay Shanta Kumar (30 Mar)
 - CPI goondas attack Idukki Adivasi agitators (28 Mar)
 - Steps to fill up backlog vacancies for SC/STs soon (28 Mar)
 - Govt accused of delaying slum development programmes (28 Mar)
 - Tehelka:Mayawati deplores singling out Bangaru (27 Mar)
 - Caste wars in Bihar blur gender divide (27 Mar)
 - Idukki tribals demolish Engg. college building (27 Mar)
 - Hindu rashtra & Indian nationalism (27 Mar)
 - Custodial torture of Dalit youths in Kerala (27 Mar)
 - Indefinite hunger strike for Ambedkar statue (27 Mar)
 - Tribals to agitate for Panchayats (27 Mar)
 - There is always drought (27 Mar)
 - CPM corporator who faked as Dalit loses post (27 Mar)
 - Panels under MLAs to study SC/ST community hostels (27 Mar)
 - Ambedkar Statue: Jolt to LDF Government (22 Mar)
 - Agitation threatened over murder of dalit (22 Mar)
 - Final Declaration Of the Global Conference Against Racism and Caste-based Discrimination (22 Mar)
 - How to kill unwed Adivasi mothers' children ? (22 Mar)
 - CM for quota for SCs in pvt. sector (22 Mar)
 - Dalit demands mount-up on Ambedkar statue (22 Mar)
 - Reservation for PG courses in AIIMS to stay (22 Mar)
 - DU procession for reservation (22 Mar)
 - Reincarnation planned for Bamiyan Buddhas (22 Mar)
 - BSP for action against Tehelka accused (22 Mar)
 - RPI to contest in all wards (22 Mar)
 - SC students may get reservation in public schools (16 Mar)
 - Utilisation of SC-ST funds under scanner (16 Mar)
 - Illicit relations prove fatal for rural women (16 Mar)
 - Intellectuals flay destruction of Buddha statuess (16 Mar)
 - Laxman made sacrificial goat? (16 Mar)
 - Smita Narula's letter in Times of India (16 Mar)
 - U. of Delhi Infuriates Faculty Groups (15 Mar)
 - Unsettled dust over Kambalapalli Dalit Carnage (15 Mar)
 - Vigil for Kamballapalli (14 Mar)
 - Custodial Torture of Dalit Youths (14 Mar)
 - LDF Govt. thwart reservation through PSC (14 Mar)
 - Defence scam: Bangaru quits, Fernandes' offer turned down (14 Mar)
 - Meet condemns caste structure in Indian society (14 Mar)
 - DSS for committee to study reservation to SC/ST (14 Mar)
 - DSS dharna over SC ruling on promotions (14 Mar)
 - Women set liquor vend on fire (14 Mar)
 - Govt asks for identification of SC/ST candidates for HC judges (14 Mar)
 - Two days after riots, community leaders trade charges (14 Mar)
 - `BSP to go it alone in state' (14 Mar)
 - Photos document destruction of Afghan Buddhas (12 Mar)
 - The Buddha smiles in Afghanistan (12 Mar)
 - Buddha Statue: KDP Protest (12 Mar)
 - Sabotaging Dalit Reservation : Kerala Style (12 Mar)
 - Race and caste (12 Mar)
 - 'Taliban act can't belittle Buddha' (12 Mar)
 - Interview- R Thirumalvalavan (12 Mar)
 - SC\ST confederation slams Govt (12 Mar)
 - The Ambedkar Memorial Lecture in UK (5 Mar)
 - Dalits told to hold torchlight rallies (8 Mar)
 - Case of an IAS Topper (8 Mar)
 - Dalits Stall Kerala Assembly Proceedings (7 Mar)
 - Kerala Dalits plan mass conversion into Buddhism (7 Mar)
 - SC/ST fund embezzlement : KDF seeks probe (7 Mar)
 - DU reserves all vacancies for SC/ST teachers (7 Mar)
 - Dalits houses torched, 15 arrested (7 Mar)
 - Buddha Statue: Historian Questions Caste Hindu Criticism (6 Mar)
 - Bamiyan Buddhas & international law (6 Mar)
 - Kerala Govt. Diverted Central Funds for SC/ST Welfare (6 Mar)
 - An interview with Chandra Bhan Prasad (6 Mar)
 - Silicon Valley landlord's sex slave victim a Dalit girl (5 Mar)
 - Destruction of Buddha statues condemned (5 Mar)
 - Lashes greet caste student (5 Mar)
 - Art academy for SC/STs, ethnological museum opened (5 Mar)
 - Adik in troubled waters over caste remark (5 Mar)
 - KWC's farcical show on Tribal woman (5 Mar)
 - Mayawati presses for quota in private sector (5 Mar)
 - Marx and globalisation (5 Mar)
 - SC/ST Commission seeks more powers (5 Mar)
 - BSP to go it alone in UP: Mayawati (5 Mar)
 - Mayawati condemns destruction (5 Mar)
 - Taliban launch tank, rocket attacks on Buddha statues (2 Mar)
 - Anti-SC/ST Atrocities in St. Teresa’s: (2 Mar)
 - 1st National Conf. of the Social Organisation of Dalits (1 Mar)
 - Rise And Fall Of Buddhist Nuns (1 Mar)
 - Govt. flayed for denying visas (28 Feb)
 - US Dept of State Report on India (28 Feb)
 - Taliban orders destruction of statues (27 Feb)
 - Starving the poor (27 Feb)
 - Dhammapada Festival (26 Feb)
 - "Untouchables" say quake aid is selective (26 Feb)
 - Indian 'apartheid' condemned (26 Feb)
 - Indian Govt. Tries To Block Caste Discussion (23 Feb)
 - Give Adivasis their due in the school books (23 Feb)
 - Thrissur Dist. Administration Cajole Tribals (23 Feb)
 - Chandrasekhar:Land Grabber Turned Ex-PM (21 Feb)
 - Committee Suggests Nursing Course Recognition (21 Feb)
 - Census could produce 'the most complicated lies' (21 Feb)
 - Must we squabble about the names? (20 Feb)
 - Quake fails to make society raise above caste: (20 Feb)
 - Caste In India (20 Feb)
 - BSP claims casteist bias against SC/STs in Census (20 Feb)
 - DMK makes counter move by aligning with Dalit party (19 Feb)
 - 'Innocence and ignorance main causes of atrocities` (19 Feb)
 - Dalit Girl Victimised at Cochin University (19 Feb)
 - Writ Petition in Kerala High Court for Brahmins’ Rights (19 Feb)
 - Discriminating the distressed (19 Feb)
 - Human-Quake Followed by the Earthquake (19 Feb)
 - Assembly Polls: Demand for more Dalit candidates (19 Feb)
 - Book Launch (19 Feb)
 - Namboodiripad Given Prominence over Dr. Ambedkar (19 Feb)
 - Growing up Untouchable in India (19 Feb)
 - 1% Fascists Are Enough To Make A Difference (19 Feb)
 - Nedumaran accuses STF of atrocities in Kerala (19 Feb)

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