What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list for hearing a plea challenging the recently notified University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations on equity in higher education, which have ...

Part of racial justice is understanding who has privilege and who doesn't. We follow one Indian American, inspired by Black Lives Matter, and his journey to check his own privilege. Yesterday, we told ...

Seattle is the first American city to protect people against discrimination based on caste. California could become the first state. Seattle, as we have reported, is the first American city to protect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

For the first time since Independence, India's Census will record the caste of all respondents, making Census 2027 one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi ...

If we stand next to one another, Thenmozhi Soundararajan and I look alike. We both have Indian immigrant roots and are the products of marriages between Hindu fathers and Christian mothers. We share ...

The Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center recently released a landmark survey on religion and society in India. Administered to 29,999 respondents in 17 languages between November 2019 and March ...

A report today says that Apple is ahead of most large companies in tackling a form of discrimination which originates in India but has affected employee recruitment in Silicon Valley: the caste system ...

New Delhi: The row over the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) new rules to combat caste discrimination on campuses has reached the top court of the country. Advocate Vineet Jindal via a petition ...