Why? A former US police officer runs an AI-powered network of misleading news sites turning its sights towards November. A BBC project investigates the election content promoted by social media by ...

Brazil and Argentina are both defeated in their latest qualifying matches for the 2026 Fifa World Cup. Colombian police paid an Israeli firm $11m in cash for the spyware, Colombia's president ...

The news shone the spotlight again on the rampant sexual violence faced by India's 80 million Dalit women, who like their male counterparts languish at the bottom of India's unbending and harsh ...

This is how Bhavna Narkar, a 28-year-old Dalit woman activist, described her mentor, Manjula Pradeep, 52. Ms Narkar is one of dozens of women Ms Pradeep has been training to help rape survivors ...

A helpless anger pervades the Dalit community in the remote Indian village of Kot. Last month, a group of upper-caste men allegedly beat up a 21-year-old Dalit resident, named Jitendra ...

But one young, charismatic man - a member of India's lowest caste, the Dalits (formerly "untouchables") - is hoping to do just that in the general election. Chandrashekhar Azad is taking on India ...

"My son's love for horses led to his murder," the father said according to AFP news agency ... "He said that people of Dalit community cannot ride horses, only Kshatriyas can ride horses.

Dalits defeated an upper caste ruler in a battle in Bhima Koregaon My brother-in-law, who had gone back to the parking lot, returned with the news that the windows of our car had been shattered.

Over the last month, Dalits (formerly untouchables) across India have been threatened, beaten and killed for seemingly mundane reasons, highlighting again how vulnerable the community is.

Warning: some readers may find this story distressing. The girl's parents are Dalits - formerly untouchables - who make a living by begging outside a Sufi Muslim shrine located just across from ...

Jayesh Solanki was killed allegedly for watching a dance performance A Dalit (formerly untouchable) man was beaten to death in the western Indian state of Gujarat allegedly for watching people ...

Dalits (formerly untouchables ... Communications strategist Karthik Srinivasan told news agency PTI that Zomato attempted a play on the word "kachra" without thinking enough about how it would ...