A village in Madhya Pradesh stands out for its discrimination against Dalit children.

Around 1,000 Dalits in Orissa's Kendrapda district embrace Buddhism in protest against having been denied entry into a Hindu temple by upper castes and the local administration despite a court order.

Our survival as a united and secular nation may depend on such simple pre-emptive appeal to the rule of law. This CD must be forged into a nail, the last in the Sangh coffin.

A Dalit woman is allegedly set on fire by an upper caste man in a Maharashtra village, about 12 km from Khairlanji in Bhandara district.

A tribal Pastor is beaten with sandals for conducting a prayer service at Zakrampalli tanda in Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh.

As a Class IX student, Hari Kishen Pippal pulled a rickshaw at night, hoping to fund his education after his shoemaker father was laid low by paralysis. Now the 56-year-old Dalit owns a state-of-the-art hospital in the Taj Mahal town.

The Assam Government has directed a 162 year old First Baptist Church in Guwahati to hand over its premises to the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority GMDA for construction of a multi-storeyed car parking lot.

A Pastor was gheraoed and attacked at his residence at Ananthapuram in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh on 8 April 2007, alleging forced conversions.

More than 28 Dalit families of Raghopur VDC in Siraha district of Nepal have been displaced following threats issued by Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Morcha (JTMM).

A Pastor, along with a team of 26 foreigners from Australia, is taken into custody for alleged conversion activities in Hyderabad following a complaint by Hindu activities.

The Supreme Court again postpones its decision on extending government benefits to Dalit Christians.

Fact Finding Team finds government authorities not upholding the law in Uttar Pradesh only weeks before major election

In the midst of a raging controversy over the Supreme Court's stay on the 27 per cent reservation for OBC students in elite educational institutions, the Tamil Nadu Government announces an 'exclusive reservation' for Christians and Muslims in government services and educational institutions.

A group of activists belonging to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh attack a Pastor and two of his believers at Leggari near Tinniya in Bangalore, Karnataka.

An upper caste family has been denied access to wells and shops in an Orissa village after their daughter married a Dalit man.

A Christian preacher is dragged by the police from a prayer function, bundled into their police vehicle, brutally attacked at the police station in full public view and remanded to police custody in Uttar Pradesh.

Christians have the lowest illiteracy levels in the country but the highest unemployment rate, according to a government survey.

Haryana's Dalits face upper-caste ire yet again, this time at Saalwan in Karnal district.

After a gap of three years, Kilipala hamlet under Tirtol block in Orissa again hits the headlines following reports that two Dalit Christian families reconverted to Hinduism at a ceremony organised by Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

Every third Dalit Christian is an illiterate, in spite of numerous Educational Institutions run by both Catholics and Protestants, says, John Dayal, the Secretary General of the All India Christian Council

While the 3,000-year-old tradition of caste divide continues to be a blot in the face of a resurgent India, the good news is that most Indians today realise that the caste system is actually holding India back by posing a big barrier to social harmony.

Victims of Christian persecution from across India shared their horrific stories and highlighted the denial of justice to them before an independent people's jury.

A rally was organised in Chickmangalore of Karnataka on 28 March 2007 to protest against a series of attacks against the minority Christian community in the State.

Raju, a missionary working in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh has been beaten up by Hindu fanatics. The police have refused to file First Information Report.

The report speaks about many other things and not the explanation or description of the events related to the violence. If reader does not read the report till the end, he or she will not get the knowledge that this also contains information on violence against Dalits.

Pastor Philip Abraham from Noida and Pastor Jacob Kunjumon from Mumbai have been arrested at Ganga Nagar in Rajasthan for their alleged conversion activities and also insulting Hindu gods.

The Punjab Government will soon launch a special campaign to improve literacy level in Dalits, especially among girl children to improve their overall socio-economic status in society.

A Dalit youth moves the Judicial First Class Magistrate court in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala stating that he was illegally detained and manhandled at the Sreekariyam police station on 18 March 2007.

Unidentified miscreants loot at least six Dalit houses at Meerapur in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. They sexually assault the women. One of the women has been raped in the presence of her family members.

Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party have been harassing a Pastor and his family in Manipal of Karnataka, bringing pressure on them to vacate their place of residence.

A senior professor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University goes to the UN to oppose the inclusion of caste discrimination in the UN agenda. In fact, JNU should be ashamed of having a so-called leading sociologist of this kind on its rolls.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has been set up especially to deliver speedy justice to the Scheduled Castes, a body mandated by law to protect the constitutional rights guaranteed to Dalits. Yet its officers are not above displaying caste prejudices.

Shashi Tharoor makes a quick checklist of the major dangers that could still retard our country's march into the 21st century.

Three members of a Dalit family, two of them women, have been hacked to death in Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh.

Two churches have been torched by Hindu extremists at Tatiparthi village of Gollaprolu mandal in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.

Justice Bahuguna says the decision of the Congress Government in Himachal Pradesh to bring forth such legislation has not only surprised party men, "but also shocks the conscience of ordinary Congress men."

Eight people have been arrested in connection with the attack on the church belonging to Indian Missionary Society at Vankadi village, Devgarhbaria taluka, Dahod district in Gujarat on 20 September 2006.

Apparently with an eye on the coming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Congress Party has advocated a separate quota for Dalit Muslims as well as reservation in the OBC category for people belonging to the community.

Three pastors have been arrested and charged with attempts on the lives of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists at Bathinda in Punjab. They have been sentenced by a district magistrate to 24 days police custody under section 307 of Indian Penal Code.

The accused three Pastors from Bathinda in Punjab have been sent to judicial custody after producing them in the court 12 March 2007.

A group of activists belonging to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh attack Indian Pentecostal Church at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.

Thousands of men and women vow to end caste divide in the country, including an immediate end to the ban on the entry of Dalits into Hindu temples in parts of India.

Defying some perceptions of widening divisions between Christians and Muslims, hundreds of Muslims joined a sit-in dharna in New Delhi organized by Christian groups fighting against discrimination meted out to Dalits.

The Congress stages walkout of the Gujarat House after the minister of state for home refuses to issue statement regarding the police crackdown on rallyists on 8 March 2007.

Anti-conversion law: Himachal Pradesh Act a ‘breach of faith’ by the secular Congress Party, say minority groups

A Dalit is burnt alive after he allegedly killed a youth at village Samadpuri under Katangi police station in Balaghat of Madhya Pradesh.

A Pentecostal church in Kalamassery municipality of Kerala has been closed down on account of sound pollution.

In yet another case of high-handedness of the police, a policeman allegedly rapes a minor Dalit girl in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh.

Under PMS, Dalit students of Class X1 and Class XII would get Rs 4.66 a day, but under Means-Cum-Merit scheme, students would get Rs 16.66 a day. What you have is one country but two rules for two sets of people!

Hundreds of Christians hold a peaceful demonstration in the heart of the national capital, demanding that Dalit Christians be given special privileges extended to their brethren from Hinduism and other religions.

A number of houses belonging to the Dalit community are set on fire near Karnal in Haryana following the murder of a person of another community.

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This is the time to banish the caste system out of our social structure, minds, lives and society, and not the time to bluff the world in Global Forums. Time has run out for the caste system and its blatant devaluation and dehumanization of human beings.

The attack on a Pastor at a Harijan Basti in Gudi Malkapur under Asifnagar police station limits in Hyderabad causes tension in the area, resulting in the Pastor’s supporters and Hindu activists coming to blows.

Many Christians were injured when hundreds of Hindu activists stormed a Christian college in Orissa and beat up its staff members and students on 28 February 2007.

Another Christian cemetery was vandalised in Vatva and over 3,000 people, led by the aicc, protested in front of the Ahmedabad Collector & District Magistrate’s office on February 22, 2007.

India is blamed for failing to uphold laws against caste discrimination as they relate to the rights of members of the untouchable caste, who are also known as Dalits.

A Christian meeting is attacked by activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party at Bhidibhoda village of Lalunga taluk in Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh.

Suliya embodies an historic instance of Dalit resistance to dominant caste atrocity in Rajasthan.

Competing with the Sangh Parivar on the eve of the Assembly Elections, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh seemingly wants to make the northern state the first Hindu province in the Indian Union.

Thirteen tribal women, including three minors, have been gang-raped by a group of unidentified youths at a brick kiln in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh.

Thirty-five people accused in the Khairlanji Dalit massacre case, including the Andhalgaon police sub-inspector, Siddheshwar Bharne, are discharged by the designated Special Court in Bhandara due to lack of evidence.

Christians and Dalits decided to challenge the Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act 2006 in the High Court at a state-wide meeting organized by All India Christian Council at Shimla on February 22, 2007 .

The presidents of Pappappatti, Keeripatti and Nattamangalam withdraw their decision to demit office in the wake of the collector’s transfer to Erode.

The All India Christian Council and fraternal Christian, Dalit and mass movement organizations have decided to challenge the Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act 2006 in the Himachal High Court.

After the Khairlanji Action Committee, now it is the turn of RPI leader Ramdas Athawale to blame the Central Bureau of Investigation for giving a clean chit to 35 accused in the Khairlanji Dalit massacre.

Christian human rights organisations denounce violence against Christian and Dalit women in several States in India.

A Christian delegation meets leaders from various political parties, including LK Advani and Oscar Fernandez to find a solution to the 280 false land cases slammed on the Church personnel in the name of verifying the credentials of the purchase of land in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh.

A Hindu fundamentalist attacks a pastor's wife in the absence of the Pastor in Urla Thana of Chhattisgarh, leaving seriously wounded.

All Indian Christian Council organises a meeting for Christian leaders from Jharkhand to bring awareness about the increasing incidence of Christian persecution all over the country.

The Christian community in Madhya Pradesh is furious over the claims made by the Madhya Pradesh State Minorities Commission that the reports of Hindu extremists persecuting Christians in the State are "baseless".

Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," according to the UN food agency.

Hindu religious fanatics have given an ultimatum to an orphan children home and Bible training centre at Kangra in Himachal Pradesh seeking its immediate closure.

Mr. Kobia, the Africa-born leader of the world’s largest alliance of churches, likens India ’s Dalit issue to South Africa ’s apartheid during a speech in Bangalore .

Dalit girl raped and murdered in Bihar.

The Khairlanji Action Committee has taken a strong exception to the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking discharge of 35 accused of the brutal Dalit killings at Khairlanji in Maharashtra.

When there are no curbs on the worship of some faiths, why are curbs imposed on Christians? Isn't it religious discrimination and hatred?

Thirty-five out of the 46 accused in the Khairlanji massacre have been discharged by the Special Court in Bhandara district due to lack of evidence.

Dalit leaders in Nellore have lauded the efforts of the All India Christian Council to highlight the works of Dr BR Ambedkar and find wider acceptance of him within the Church.

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry appoints a Kolkata Catholic priest for the first time as member to the Advisory Panel to the Central Board of Film Certification.

A Catholic nun of Irish origin has been conferred one of India’s highest civilian awards for her social service.

Four women missionaries belonging to Gospel for Asia, working at Thosam in Biwani district of Haryana, are attacked by Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bajrang Dal activists.

The All India Christian Council organises a National Conference on ‘Responding to Persecution and Suffering’ in Hyderabad.

About 25 members of Dharam Sena attack a pastors' conference in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, injuring at least 10 Christians.

Bajrang Dal activists are on the rampage in Madhya Pradesh. From beating up foreigners on suspicion of carrying beef to pelting stones at the house of a Muslim driver, who accidentally hit a cow on the road, they are wearing their misplaced emotions on their sleeves.

Nearly two-thirds of all Indians are fiercely proud of 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' but more than half of India believes the caste system is a "barrier to social harmony" and is holding the country back.

The bottom-line is that there is no reason to regulate NGOs in the way envisioned by the FCRA or the 2006 FCR Bill. NGOs, like for-profit companies, are subject to the ordinary laws of the land, which are quite adequate to deal with any rogue organisations.

Two Christians have been arrested in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh for their alleged involvement in the recent vandalisation of a statue in a temple recently.

The District administration of Jashpur in Chhattisgarh under the guidance of the State Government registers around 280 false land cases against Catholic tribal priests and nuns by misusing the provision under the MP (CG) Land Revenue Code of 1959.

The construction of a church building has been repeatedly stopped by Hindutva activists at Vanaparthy town in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, forcing the pastor of the church to seek help from the Christian community in the State.

It is not just communal hatred that divides Gujarat even today. It is the absence of a sense of remorse or compassion. In the long run, this cannot be the recipe for a ‘Vibrant Gujarat’.

The Union Government is planning a new scheme to provide alternative employment to people who earn their living by manually removing human excreta.

CPI-M urges the Tamil Nadu Government to take 'deterrent action' and book under the Prevention of Atrocities Act all those who have not allowed Dalit students to participate in arts competitions held as part of Republic Day celebrations at a Cuddalore school.

CPM condemns discrimination against Dalit students at a Government school in Ambujavalli hamlet, Kattumanar Koil taluk in Tamil Nadu and demands action against the guilty.

Nine Bajrang Dal activists, including some of its leaders, have been named in the FIR lodged in connection with the incident on 28 January 2007, in which a congregation of around 25 people of Christian community was attacked.

CPM condemns discrimination against Dalit students at a Government school in Ambujavalli hamlet, Kattumanar Koil taluk in Tamil Nadu and demands action against the guilty.

The old practice of `no entry' for Dalits into a Lord Jagannath temple in Kendrapara district of Orissa came to and end on 28 January 2007 with the Dalit men and women entering the holy place without any opposition from the upper caste people.

Tension prevails in Banauli village of Chandauli district near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh following the desecration of a statue of Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar.

Tamil Nadu Kodikulam’s Dalit panchayat president, Balamani Veeman, whose powers were auctioned in November 2006, unfurls tricolour amid new ‘plot’ to control her.

Dalit Christians in Bihar have set up a forum to promote their distinct identity and interests. Bihar has about 100,000 Dalit Christians who live in remote villages.

Christians serving drug addicts and destitute orphans in Himachal Pradesh have been falsely charged with antisocial activists by Hindu fanatics.

Press Statement released to the media after over 10,000 thousands of Christians from all denominations and walks of live participated in a Peace and Protest March in Visakhapatnam from RTC Complex to the Collectorate to submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister through the Collector.

Thousands of Christians take out a silent rally in Visakhapatnam, protesting against the harassment meted to foreign Christian visitors to Andhra Pradesh and demand that the policing of their Visa be stopped immediately.

Frustrated by the Government's indifference towards them, the fishing community forms a samiti to launch a movement in Assam to give members of the Dalit and fishermen communities a platform to air their grievances.

The bloodthirsty manner in which the Hindutva brigade has celebrated the Birth Centenary of its founder Guru Golwalkar is evidence that the hyper nationalist and religious fundamentalist group has sharpened its attack on Christians and Muslims.

Around 250 Hindu fanatics hold dharna against a Pastor in Kangra, seeking his ouster from the town for his missionary activities.

The desecration of a statue of Dr BR Ambedkar sparks off unrest on the Helimandi-Pataudi Road in Gurgaon. Over 100 Dalit activists disrupt the traffic movement on the road for nearly two hours, protesting against the vandalisation.

A pastor serving orphans and a drug rehabilitation center face false accusations by radical Hindus

Congress President Sonia Gandhi to hold direct dialogue with deprived sections of society and the first such session of dialogue with Dalit leaders, workers and institutions working for their welfare will be organised in first week of February 2007.

In a new twist to the Khairlangi Dalit tragedy, one of the prime witnesses in the case Rajendra Gajbhiye lodges a complaint with the Andhalgaon police in Bhandara district for getting life threats and facing casteist abuses.

The The photographs and others proofs available on the Gohana incident in 2005 do not convey that people residing in those houses themselves undertook all that exercise supposedly to get compensation as the CBI wants everyone to believe!

RSS and VHP activists to hold a sit-in dharna in front of Pastor Behal orphanage at Kamgra town in Himachal Pradesh, demanding the closure of their institution.

The Khairlanji Dalit massacre case has taken a new twist with 24 of the 47 accused being granted bail. The CBI has charge-sheeted only 11 accused and says it does not have enough evidence against the rest.

Hindu activists have beaten up Christians who have gone to attend a prayer meeting near Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh.

Senior CPI-M leader Brinda Karat alleges that efforts are being made to "subvert and sabotage" the course of justice in the Khairlanji Dalit killings case and accuses the Maharasthra Government of turning a blind eye towards such attempts.

A Maharashtra fast track court begins hearing in the case of the killings of the four members of a Dalit family in Khairlanji that has evoked widespread protests.

The anti-conversion laws, both by their design and implementation, favour Hinduism over minority religions. This represents a significant challenge to Indian secularism.

A report on the activities of aicc for the month of December 2006.

A polio-affected woman in Madhya Pradesh threatens to commit suicide in protest against the authorities refusing to give her permission to marry a Christian.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi would soon hold direct dialogue with deprived sections of society and the first such session of dialogue with Dalit leaders, workers and institutions working for their welfare would be organised in first week of February 2007.

With her house demolished and father dead, the daughter, along with her mother, from Maharashtra threatens immolation on 26 January 2007 to get justice.

The police arrest the two youth who molested a Dalit girl in Maharashtra, provide protection to her family and carry out panchanama.

The activists of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad beat up Christian preachers belonging to Brethren Assembly in Gaziabad of Uttar Pradesh.

Keradagada in Kerdrapada district in Orissa is now in focus after some Dalits entered a temple there, followed by predictable upper caste reaction.

The parents and other family members of the victims of the killings at Nithari in Noida continue to remain highly traumatised and wait for adequate measures to ensure their safety.

Bajrang Dal activists threaten to kill 16 Christian believers whom they have forcibly taken away from a church at Lanji village in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh.

We are not doing any favour to the downtrodden in helping them rise to greater stature. What we would gain is to strengthen India in its march towards superpower-hood.

India’s untouchables hope to gain greater equality as a Dalit prepares to take hold of the highest judicial post in India for the first time.

Hindu radicals have stopped the construction of a church belonging to Good Shepherd Community Church at Roddam village in Ananthapur district, Andhra Pradesh.

Hindu fanatics attack a Pastor in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh for allegedly converting people. The attack leaves him seriously injured, necessitating his immediate hospitalisation.

Nepal's impoverished low caste 'Dalit' community continue to be discriminated against almost 20 years after the caste system was banned.

Alleged organ trafficking and sexual abuse of children: All Christian Council demands investigation and regulation of child-care agencies. Dalits , India 's "untouchables" were targetted.

There can be little doubt that the Muslim states are in collective breach of both the letter and the spirit of the UN declaration pertaining to the freedom of belief and religion.

Two of the prime witnesses in the Khairlanji Dalit killings seek protection from the Central Government.

A Dalit woman is stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in Rajkot of Gujarat.

The oppressors of Dalits are so-called 'upper caste' Hindus but OBCs, particularly in rural areas where casteism holds a more aggressive sway.

Today Dalits are enlightened enough to strike a hard political bargain with other political parties.

Hindu extremists burn down a church in Orissa, get carol singers on Christmas Eve arrested and disrupt yuletide services in several states.

Christmas brings a bundle of trouble for Christians in Chhattisgarh. Newspapers in the State have carried negative reports about missioners along with Christmas greetings and features.

A festival of Dalit art forms is organised at Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu as part of the completion of tsunami-rehabilitation works for the Dalit and Adivasi communities.

Youth belonging to Bajrang Dal attack Christian believers at Waden Sibhi in Singroli area of Madhya Pradesh.

Hindu fanatics stop a Pastor from building a church at Rodham of Ananthapur district in Andhra Pradesh.

A group of Dalit drummers in Tamil Nadu struggles to keep alive an ancient art form and through it, struggling to win dignity for their community.

Himachal Pradesh passes a legislation banning forced religious conversions in the State.

The bodies of a Dalit woman and her two children are found in a well at Kemmur Dalit Colony, Ivathoklu in Sullia of Karnataka.

The recent Dalit protests have been perceived as reflections of disillusionment with Dalit political leadership and a quest for more effective ways to fight caste oppression.

Dalits in Gujarat are changing their surnames, highlighting the contemporary social reality in the State.

The Association of Applied Videography Professionals (AAVP) honours Fr Anand Muttungal of Bhopal for his excellent works in the field of public relations.

At the Mahavir temple in Patna, both Hanuman and Buddha are worshipped. What’s more, the temple has a Dalit priest.

A middle-aged Dalit woman in Bihar is tonsured and paraded half-naked on the orders of the husband of a woman village head for allegedly stealing a few bananas.

Antisocial elements destroy the statue of Mother Mary and Infant Jesus placed near Church of Christ the King at Ramanthapur in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

There are clear signs that Dalit leadership is emerging in a new form and with a new theory, drawing upon the legacy of Phule and Ambedkar, but not accepting its bounds.

Within a month of beginning a probe into the murder of four members of a Dalit family at Khairlanji village of Bhandara district in Maharashtra, the CBI files a charge-sheet against 11 people.

Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party makes a forceful plea for providing reservations to Muslims and Dalits not only in government jobs but in the private sector and security forces too.

A parish in Kerala refuses to have a funeral service for a 78-year-old former low-caste convert, claiming he failed to follow the faith.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was necessary to make a distinction between the problems faced by Dalits and those by minorities.

Aicc asks local authorities to protect Christian minorities who have been attacked between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 in past years

Bhayyalal Bhotmange recently visited his village accompanied by policemen. He stood again behind the row of tamarind trees from where he watched his unclothed wife and daughter being tortured, and his two young sons being killed.

The fingers of a 10-year old Dalit girl have been chopped off by an upper caste man in Bihar for plucking spinach from his field.

Hindu radicals stop Christian worship service and closed the prayer hall at Vellamody village in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu with the help of the police.

KG Balakrishnan will become the first Dalit Chief Justice of India ’s Supreme Court in Mid-January.

A pastor in Hyderabad was harassed and his school vandalized by radical Hindus.

Government officials in Tamil Nadu have successfully resolved a dispute between two groups of Catholics that dogged a rural parish for more than a decade.

Tension is palpable in West Bengal village after 18 houses belonging to the Musahar community have been torched following a dispute over the right to fish in a government pond.

After four days of uncertainty, the administration succeeds in making caste Hindus agree to allow Dalits enter the Jagannath temple in Keredagada village of Orissa's Kendrapara district.

An analysis article by Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN and Channel 7.

Angry over Dalits being allowed into the 300-year-old Jagannath temple in Kendrapada district of Orissa, upper caste residents of a hamlet of 1,400 families resort to 'satyagraha'.

Atrocities against Dalits across India happen not because there are not enough laws, there is not enough will.

A day after 200 Dalits barged into an Orissa temple in the wake of a court ruling in their favour, the temple's priests say they would perform purification rituals.

The broader challenge is how to spread the progress made by a few Dalits to the remaining 90 per cent. One factor is whether successful Dalits are willing to help.

Eight Dalit families in Mysore are ostracized and subjected to such a horrendous treatment merely because they apparently ‘failed to obediently follow the orders of the upper-caste people.’

Not only are caste-inspired crimes refusing to end, but even the redress mechanism is failing to deliver.

‘Queen Bee’ Kushwaha is also the youngest of three girls selected from all over the country by UNICEF as role models who countered gender bias and made a space for themselves.

Hundreds of Dalits offer prayers amidst tight security in an ancient temple at Sulia in Rajasthan, nearly two-and-a-half months after a member of their community was stopped from entering the shrine, sparking protests against the district administration.

Manual scavenging, despite an Act banning it during the tenure of late Biju Patnaik, continues to be very much an obnoxious reality in most parts of Orissa.

Thousands of Dalits take part in a rally organised by All India Christian Council (aicc) and the All India Confederation of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Organisations in New Delhi to demand the benefits of reservation for Dalit Christians.

Here is the moving story of one of the two Christian families recently driven out of their village Dubalia in Ranchi for embracing the Christian faith.

A report on the activities of aicc for the month of November 2006.

Hundreds of Dalits will enter the Jagannath temple in Kendrapada of Orissa on 20 December 2006 after the high court recently gave a ruling in their favour.

Dalits ostracized for daring to fetch water from the village tank in Kadkol of Bijapur district in Karnataka are provided some relief by the Government.

The Hindu community should treat Dalits as equals, says Sri Vishwesha Tirtha Swamiji of Pejawar Math in Udupi of Karnataka.

Evangelist Bashir Ahmad Tantray (50) is shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Mamoosa village in northern Barmullah district of Jammu and Kashmir.

The All India Christian Council at its massive prayer rally on parliament street this morning in New Delhi called on the government to do justice to the Christian Community by restoring the human rights of Dalit Christians.

A study of Dalit education patterns seen against their actual socio-economic standing provides significant pointers to what might have heightened a sense of frustration among them.

Uttar Pradesh registered 4397 cases of alleged atrocities against Dalits in 2006, the highest in the country.

Dalits in India have been kept out of business and industry for centuries but many of them are now breaking into the domain and charting success despite caste prejudice.

A Christian media team is attacked by the police at Malkapur village under Kodapur police station limits in Sangareddy, Andhra Pradesh.

A large number of men, women and children from across the country participate in a `Dalit Dignity March' in New Delhi, seeking social and political reforms for their emancipation.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are ‘extremely upset’ over the Dalit killings in Maharashtra and the recent violence in Mumbai.

With the Kanpur incident taking place against the backdrop of the growing violence against Dalits, it was inevitable, some of these activists believe, that Dalit youth would have been provoked to take to the streets and protest on 30 November 2006.

In an embarrassment to the Maharashtra Government, a state institute has accused a top police official of dereliction of duty in the Khairlanji Dalit killings case.

More than two dozen people attack a Dalit family and set their house ablaze in Madhya Pradesh. The accused persons also open fire at them.

Hindu activists torch a church at Pedda Demili village in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.

Two Pastors are attacked and beaten up by a mob of RSS activists in Jhabua of Madhya Pradesh.

A resident of Elha village in Rohtas district of Bihar rapes the wife of a local pastor at the instance of Hindu extremists.

The Maharashtra Government says a fast track court will be set up for speedy trial of killing of four members of a Dalit family at Khairlanji village in Bhandara district.

Thousands of Viswa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists put off their plans for a puja at the Baba Budangiri shrine in Chikamagalur of Karnataka.

Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, the lone survivor of the Dalit family killed in Maharashtra, meets Sonia Gandhi and gets assurance that she would personally follow up the matter.

The current Dalit movement would definitely throw leadership. It is the time of reckoning in the legacy of Ambedkarite movement and a time of introspection for our political parties and governments.