The play and performances aim to generate awareness and disseminate information among the mainstream communities about indigenous people and dalit groups.“Handi Kutum”, a play that aims to generate awareness on the rights of indigenous people and dalit, was staged at different villages under Sadar and Pirgonj upazila of Thakurgaon last Tuesday and Wednesday.

It’s been just over a week since the Allahabad high court verdict in the Ayodhya title suit case. The likely impact of the judgment on different political parties in the state Assembly election — the first phase of which falls on October 21 — is clearly still an unknown.

This important question of law referred to larger Bench of Supreme Court.

Is a person belonging to a Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe in a State entitled or not to benefits or concessions allowed to SC/ST candidates in employment in another State? The Supreme Court on Thursday referred this question to a larger Bench.

Kanpur:A small Thakur-dominated village in Ramabainagar district, which did not receive a single nomination for five years for the gram pradhan post after being declared a "reserve seat", has been declared "general".

A section of pro-Telangana activists fed up with the frequent flip-flops by the Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) headed by the mercurial K. Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to launch a new party. The party, called the Telangana Praja Front (TPF), will be headed by Maoist sympathiser and revolutionary Telugu balladeer Gaddar, 61.

Dimapur: Nagaland University teachers today echoed the grievances raised by some organizations in the state earlier about Nagaland University’s recruitment system. The Nagaland University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) today wrote to the Chief Rector of the university, Nikhil Kumar, seeking his intervention in a number of issues that indicated widespread anomalies in the recruitment system, especially for teachers’ posts.  

CHANDIGARH: Punjab governor Hon’able Sh. Shivraj V.Patil has invited the Chamar Mahan Sabha for talks over its demands especially the issue concerning the reservation and the state atrocities against the scheduled castes especially the scheduled castes.