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"UP govt promoting untouchability": Owaisi on police order for "eateries"
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The UP Police on Thursday said that the police have urged all the eateries to "voluntarily display" the names of their owners and employees, adding that the intention of this order is not to create any kind of "religious discrimination" but only to facilitate the devotees.
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“If Sanatana is destroyed, untouchability will also be destroyed,” Udhayan
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
"We say that Santana Dharma should be abolished only to abolish untouchability. I believe that if Sanatana is destroyed, untouchability will also be destroyed," the junior Stalin said on Tuesday in response to the Tamil Nadu Governor's remarks on social discrimination in the state.
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"Sanatan Dharam = untouchability": BR Amdekar's grandson Prakash Ambedkar
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Amid the ongoing controversy over Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayandhi Stalin's "eradicate Santan Dharma" remark, Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi national president Prakash Ambedkar on Monday referred to Sanatan Dharma as equal to 'untouchability'.
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UCC will end untouchability, curb atrocities against women: RSS leader Ind
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
While addressing the event, the RSS leader said, "There are more people who favour the Uniform Civil Code than against it. Religious rites and the practice of untouchability will end after UCC is implemented."
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Hall to be built in memory of late Congress leader and former MP L Elaya P
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Stalin said that L Elayaperumal sacrificed his life for the scheduled caste and scheduled Tribes and for the welfare of the Tamil Nadu people
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Tamil Nadu plans year-long celebration on Kerala's Vaikom Satyagraha
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Stalin made the announcement in the State Assembly on Thursday and said that he will participate in the Kerala government's Vaikom struggle centenary celebrations on April 1. The movement against untouchability demanded that a ban be lifted on the oppressed people to walk on roads in and aro
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Human excreta in water tank incident: Tamil Nadu CM Stalin says it shows c
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday said that the incident in Vengaival village of Pudhokottai district, in which human excreta was found in water tanks, shows that caste discrimination and untouchability exist in some pockets of society.
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Karnataka: Cong-BJP fight erupts over suspended tender for Dalits to watch
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Amid accusations by the Congress on Thursday that the ruling party was practising untouchability, the BJP hit back accusing the erstwhile Siddaramaiah government of calling similar tenders.
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Panchakulam untouchability case: TN Court bars 5 convicts from entering vi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Tenkasi (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 22 (ANI): The Tirunelveli Special Court has issued an order prohibiting the five convicts from entering the village for six months in connection with the untouchability of Panchakulam school children near Shankarankovil, Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu.
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No under-reporting of crimes against SCs/STs, police should play more proa
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): Deeply concerned about crimes against weaker sections of society, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has written to all states and Union Territories (UTs).
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Centuries-old untouchability towards people afflicted by leprosy hasn't be
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], March 28 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday said that untouchability based on caste and religion was abolished by Article 17 of the Constitution, but the centuries-old untouchability towards people afflicted by leprosy has not been completely eradicate
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BR Ambedkar led decisive struggle against untouchability, discrimination:
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday paid homage to BR Ambedkar on his 130th birth anniversary and said he led the decisive struggle against centuries-old "ills of untouchability and discrimination".
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