Chennai, Sept 12( BPNS) Students of a government primary school in Usulampetti in Thoothukudi district had breakfast on Tuesday after DMK leader and Member of Parliament, Kanimozhi intervened. The students of Government primary school in Usulampetti in Thoothukudi district had refused to consume the free breakfast under the state government scheme as the food was […]
Chennai , Sept 12( BPNS) Ambur police in Tirupattur district is probing into the missing a woman Dalit panchayath president in the district. The woman, Indumathi was elected President of Navakkaneri Village Panchayat in Tirupattur district. Her husband Pandiyan has registered a complaint with the Ambur police stating that his wife was missing since last […]
Chennai, Aug 27 (BPNS) A Dalit body of Tamil Nadu has urged the state government to ban caste-based wristbands in schools. This is following the brutal attack on a brother and sister belonging to Dalit community in Nanguneri , Tirunelveli district by the boy’s class mates. Dalit Intellectual Collective, a body of Dalit intellectuals have […]
Chennai, June 27 (BPNS) Caste and caste related disputes leading to violence and killings is not new to Tamil Nadu and periodically it happens in the state. Sources in the police told BPNS that the state police intelligence has issued a recent warning to officers in Southern Tamil Nadu on the possibility of certain caste […]
Chennai, June 7 (BPNS) A group of Dalits has alleged that the police in Tiruppur are lethargic in taking action against three upper caste men who had assaulted a Dalit farmer belonging to the Adi Dravida community and his niece. The farmer, P. Subramanian told BPNS that on May 17 he was chatting with a group […]
Chennai, April 25 (BPNS) The Vengavayil case in which human excreta was found in a water tank that supplies drinking water to a Dalit colony has taken a new turn with the DNA samples of 11 people to be taken on Tuesday. The DNA samples including that of policemen is to be collected at Pudukottai […]
Chennai, April 10 (BPNS) Dalit outfits of Tamil Nadu want an inquiry of the case in which human excreta was found in the drinking water tank in Vengavayil in Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu. The incident happened in December 2022 when human excreta was found mixed in a drinking water tank placed overhead. The tank […]
Chennai , Mar 4(BPNS) A Scheduled Caste Panchayath president of Palaiyur in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu have lodged a complaint to the State Chief Secretary and District Collector that she was being harassed by upper caste people due to her being from an SC community. The panchayath president , S.Vidhya in a complaint to […]
Chennai, Feb 21 (BPNS) Even as Tamil Nadu is in an embarrassing situation after the presence of human excreta in a drinking water tank that supplies water to a Dalit colony in the Pudukottai district, a Block Development Officer (BD0) in Tiruppur district is in the news for denying drinking water connection to Dalits. The […]
Chennai, Feb 16 (BPNS) Thoothukudi district collector Dr. K. Senthil Raj is to hold a peace meeting between representatives of Dalit organizations and the Nadar community organizations after complaints were raised that the Dalits were prevented from using the road to the funeral ground. It is to be noted that in the Pudukottai district of […]
