Topic: caste discrimination

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday held that abuses and insults made on an online platform against a person belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe would attract the offences under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Ambedkar Association of North America has strongly condemned Google's “reprehensible action” last week, of canceling a pre-approved, scheduled talk on caste based discrimination by Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs to Google's employees to mark the Dalit History Month.

This is such a disturbing aspect for a student’s psyche because you are not only being targeted inside that interview hall but you are also being made to disbelieve what you experienced.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India’s one of the premier education institutes, is reportedly discriminating Ph.D. applicants from SC, ST, OBC, and Muslim categories by giving low marks in interviews. Student organisations in the varsity university students union have called for protests against discrimination in viva-voce in JNU Ph.D. admission. This is a joint statement released by JNU units of AISA, AISF, BAPSA, BASO, COLLECTIVE, Committee of Suspended Students for Social Justice, CRJD, CRLD, DSF, Fraternity Movement, Hundred Flowers Group, JNUSU, MSF, NSUI, SCS, SFI.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India's top-ranked university for several years is reportedly discriminating PhD applicants from SC, ST, OBC, and Muslim categories by giving low marks in interviews.

“It is unbelievable that she chose suicide. She would never do that,” says  Aysha Latheef, unable to find closure about the death of her twin sister Fathima Latheef.