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UP: Village Development Officer kills self after facing casteist slurs
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Lakhimpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept 7 (ANI): A Village Development Officer, allegedly upset with casteist slurs, committed suicide here at his residence on Friday evening. Police have made some arrests in the case.
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Chhattisgarh: FIR registered against Former CM Ajit Jogi in fake caste cer
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], Sept 6 (ANI): An FIR was lodged on last night against former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi for allegedly obtaining a fake caste certificate to avail benefits meant for the scheduled tribes, police said.
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Rajasthan: Police prohibit signs depicting caste, post, other identity sym
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Sept 3 (ANI): The office of the Director-General of Police on Tuesday issued an advisory to the Superintendents of Police across the state to prohibit usage of signs depicting one's caste, organizational posts, former designations, one's name, village's name and o
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Shankar was Bind by caste and it's given in Shiva Purana: Bihar Minister
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Kaimur (Bihar) [India], Aug 29 (ANI): Bihar Minister Brij Kishore Bind stoked a controversy when he said that Lord Shiva belongs to 'Bind' caste at an event held in Patna to welcome Governor.
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Dominican Republic: Postal stamp commemorating Gandhi's 150th birth annive
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic], Aug 29 (ANI): The Dominican Republic launched a stamp commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi at the Foreign Ministry here.
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Bihar Minister reiterates his claim 'Lord Shiva belonged to Bind caste'
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Kaimur (Bihar) [India], Aug 28 (ANI): Substantiating his claims made on Lord Shiva's caste by citing Hindi texts Shiva Puran, Mines and Geology Minister Braj Kishore Bind on Thursday asked that if Lord Krishna could be a Gwala, Lord Ram could be a Kshatriya, why can't Lord Shiva be a Bind?
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Mothers of Rohit Vemula, Payal Tadvi move SC seeking measures to end caste
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 28 (ANI): Mothers of Payal Tadvi and Rohith Vemula who had committed suicide over alleged caste discrimination, have moved a petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions for strict measures to end caste discrimination in university campuses.
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Bihar: Lord Shiva is from 'Bind' caste, claims BJP Minister
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Aug 27 (ANI): Lord Shiva was from the Bind caste, claimed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bihar's Mines and Geology Minister Braj Kishore Bind here on Tuesday.
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Caste should be eradicated from education places: TN minister Jayakumar
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Aug 16 (ANI): Days after the government ordered action against schools in the state for making students wear caste wristbands, Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar on Friday said that the caste system should be eradicated from schools and places of education.
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Govt orders action against schools making students wear caste wristbands i
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Aug 14 (ANI): The Director of Education in Tamil Nadu Dr S Kanappan has written to all Chief Education Officers to identify and take action against schools where children were made to wear wrist bands of different colours to identify their caste.
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CBSE's fee hike decision 'casteist', 'anti-poor', says Mayawati
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 13 (ANI): Calling the Central Board of Secondary Education's move to increase examination fee for board examinations "anti-poor", BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday said the decision should be reversed immediately.
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Casteism alive due to reservation, SC/ST Act: BJP MLA Surendra Singh
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Ballia (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 12 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Ballia assembly constituency, Surendra Singh, has claimed that laws to prevent atrocities against SCs and STs, and the reservation being provided to them is the reason behind the existence of casteism in today
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