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.

Atul's parents found it hard to raise the online admission fee Atul is from the Dalit community, which lies at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy and is among the most marginalised in the ...

A district attorney will argue for the brothers' resentencing on Friday - but freedom is still a long way off. The global arachnid trade is threatening the world's most famous spider species. And ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...