Imtiaz Jaleel from AIMIM is facing legal charges under the SC/ST Act after allegedly using the term 'Harijan' against a SC ...

A Parliamentary Committee on SC/ST welfare, led by Lok Sabha MP Faggan Singh Kulaste, visited Haryana to discuss the ...

Dalit women are among the most oppressed groups in the world and are often victims of sexual violence or even murder. Dalit ...

The Chief Minister’s silence for over 72 hours on the matter has only intensified the controversy, with the opposition calling it a tacit admission of administrative failure.

Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai stood in Parliament and delivered what was then a definitive policy line: ...

India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The Home Ministry announced plans to ...

Only 3.6% of the Supreme Court's nominees for the position of judges of various high courts since November 2022 were from scheduled castes and even fewer from scheduled tribes, according to ...

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, is an Indian law designed to prevent crimes against members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

Members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Gazetted Officers Charitable Foundation have urged the State government to set up a Buddhist Development Corporation to support the growing ...

The Supreme Court has said it is for the legislature and government to take a call on whether the “creamy layer” of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes’ (STs) beneficiaries of ...

Those Dalit communities formally recognized as backward by the state were now referred to as Scheduled Castes, while the tribes formally recognized as backward were termed Scheduled Tribes (as ...