After OBCs were granted a 27 per cent quota and reservations in local self-government bodies, the Maratha agitation against reservation based on social backwardness took a U-turn
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Hindu nationalists demand the denial of reservations to Christian and Muslim tribals even as they pursue their own 'reconversion' drive
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On March 14, 2006, Latabai and her son, six, were paraded naked in a village in Solapur. Less than six months later, four members of a Dalit family were paraded naked; mother & daughter were allegedly gang-raped
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On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a staff nurse at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai, was brutally attacked by a male sweeper, Sohanlal Valmiki. He raped and sodomised her, while strangling her with a dog chain
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While India gained independence on August 15, 1947, the nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes were freed five years later, on August 31, 1952, with the repeal of the oppressive British law of the Criminal Tribes Act
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Netra News, an independent news outlet in exile, is known for its rare feat in investigative reportage exposing corruption in the Bangladesh government and abuse of security agencies.
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After being underground for more than a decade, Jamaat-e-Islami is back on the political circuit, raising concerns for India
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Despite being illegal, despite the years of independence and progress India has made, the practice of untouchability continues to plague the country’s Dalit citizens
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The organisation clinched news headlines in 2007-08 after its members and its affiliated organisation the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti were arrested for their alleged involvement in a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai and Goa
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Unafraid and unbothered about the fate of other godmen, gurus and babas, Radhe Maa says she is content with her followers
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