Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

On March 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Kumar v. Koester, dismissing a constitutional challenge to a ...

In recent years, a number of colleges and universities have added caste to their list of prohibited classifications under their ...

Sixty-one percent of respondents in India Today's inaugural Gross Domestic Behaviour survey opposed interfaith marriages, ...

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has reiterated his demand for the caste census, calling it as an important ...

Caste or religious discrimination find fewer takers, but the boundaries stay firm when it comes to marriage outside faith or ...

A recent editorial (‘Steps to equality’, IE, March 17) reiterated an old argument that even though caste discrimination exists in the state, the bhadralok — the upper-caste, urban middle class — ...

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With the aadhaar backed caste certificate, the cases of discrimination will decline. As the database is already set by the UIDAI and the state government, disbursing the scholarships to the ...

The Delhi Transport Corporation's liabilities rose from Rs 28,263 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 65,274 crore in 2021-22, as it incurred operational losses of more than Rs 14,000 crore during the same ...