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Kargil voices concern over Ladakhโ€™s 7 new districts, โ€˜only 2 Muslim-majorityโ€™

Mustafa Haji, a lawyer and also the legal advisor of the Leh Apex Body (LAB), said the manner in which the districts have been created reflected โ€œhuge discrimination towards the Muslim population of Kargilโ€

National Commission for Scheduled Castes to probe into complaint over name of habitation with caste identity in Srivilliputtur

Officials rush to Kondaskoppa village after family complains of boycott

Deputy Commissioner to instruct all officials concerned to visit the village regularly and resolve all differences among the families

SC/ST communities in Karnataka continue to face land-related issues, finds study

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Karnataka continue to suffer in land-related issues, despite legislations being in place, a study has said

Dinesh Gundu Rao condemns removal of โ€˜janivaraโ€™ of students at CET centre

A nation built on pan-African principles faces questions about racism

Several black Zambians tell the BBC they sometimes feel like they are second-class citizens in their own country.

Weakened campus politics a reason for BDS studentโ€™s death in Kannur college, says M.V. Govindan

Students should attain the strength to expose and resist tendencies such as cast discrimination and come together to strengthen campus politics in places where it has been weakened or erased, says CPI(M) State secretary

Iranian student has right to use swimming pool: rights panel

The petitioner who is married to an Indian had complained that a swimming pool assistant racially and verbally abused her and some friends claiming they were foreign citizens and not allowed to the use the pool at Greenfield Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram

With BDS studentโ€™s death in Kannur, caste bias back in focus

The death of a student of Kannur Dental College has raised disturbing questions about caste discrimination on Keralaโ€™s college campuses. The college has dismissed a faculty member and suspended another, pending inquiry. The incident led to an outpouring of related complaints from other students. The bereaved family, the studentโ€™s college-mates, faculty, and activists express their views

Death of BDS student: students boycott classes, allege misconduct by faculty members

Teacher accused of insulting students on the basis of skin colour, physical appearance and caste, and allegedly threatening to fail them in examinations