South India

The Tamil Nadu police on Sunday registered two cases against a caste Hindu who forced a village office assistant, belonging to Dalit community, to fall at his feet, at the Ottarpalayam village office in Coimbatore district on Friday.

Video of a Dalit government staff falling at the feet of a Caste Hindu in Ottarpalayam village, Annur taluk in Coimbatore has triggered a protest in Tamil Nadu. ...

The alleged custodial death of a Congolese national on Monday triggered protests in Bengaluru leading to the injury of six nationals from African countries as police resorted to lathi-charge...

50 Dalits from Thirumangalam village in Tamil Nadu's Madurai who entered Pekkaman Karuppasamy temple for the first time in their lives.

Kerala on Tuesday recorded 22,129 fresh COVID-19 cases, pushing the infection caseload to 33,05,245, with the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) going back to more than 12 per cent.

Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu have staged a protest against caste discrimination in the Catholic Church ahead of the consecration of Bishop Arulselvam Rayappan in Salem.

Marking their opposition to the CPI(M) led government’s decision to rejig the minority scholarship ratio, an umbrella body of Muslim organisations in Kerala on Sunday has constituted a Sachar Samrakshana Samithi (roughly translates as Save Sachar [Sachar Commission] Committee).

The Kerala High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on the Hindu Sevakendram, while dismissing a petition seeking to declare that Muslims, Latin Catholics, Christian Nadars and Scheduled Castes converted to any denomination in Christianity are not entitled to be treated as backward classes.

Anannyah Kumari Alex, a well-known transgender media personality from Kerala, who was the first from her community to file nomination papers as a candidate for the Kerala Assembly elections this time, was found dead in an apartment in Kochi on Tuesday, a week after she accused Dr Arjun Asokan, a plastic surgeon at Renai Medicity in Kochi of medical negligence.

Popular Telugu movie critic, actor and Dalit intellectual Kathi Mahesh Kumar who had sustained grievous injuries in a road accident on June 26, is no more. He was 43.

PK Warrier, who added to the fame of Ayurveda, has died at 100 on Saturday.

More than 58 lawyers and researchers have written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind with the request to withdraw the draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation 2021 (LDAR) in the interest and well-being of the citizens of islands.