Kalyani: Eighteen-year-old Kajal is one of the few girls of her community to have studied till class 10. But that hasn't stopped her and other boys and girls of the Harijan community in Kalyani to take a giant leap of faith - fight the evils of discrimination through theatre. "In spite of being from a low caste, I feel wonderful that we could change things and make them better not...
10:37 AM, May 18, 2012
Narnaul: The government-run Industrial Training Institute in Narnaul, Haryana, found itself in the centre of a controversy on Saturday. The institute has allegedly created a separate wing for SC/STs, calling it "special privileges". The students, however, call it discriminatory. The institute was set up by the government with the aim of providing technical skill training to students of all categories. The institute has now built two buildings. While one of...
07:28 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: A first-year MBBS student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room on Saturday, after, claim his friends, facing severe discrimination at the institute. Anil Kumar Meena hailed from a village in Rajasthan. His friends are boycotting classes on Monday as a mark of protest. They claim he was struggling to cope with English...
11:27 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New York: A US court has upheld a class claim of sex discrimination filed against Larsen and Turbo Infotech, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate L&T, by its former employee who has alleged she was fired from her job after she informed the company she was pregnant. The lawsuit has been brought by New York attorney Krishnan Chittur on behalf of Deepa Shanbhag and 1,500 past and present women employees. In...
04:46 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Houston: Three Indian-American doctors, who were derogatorily called "the Indians" and treated as "second-class citizens" by the CEO of a medical center in the US, have won a racial discrimination case in a Texas court. The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Citizens Medical Center in Victoria had violated the equal protection rights of the doctors. The court ruled in favour of Ajay Gaalla, Harish Chandna and Dakshesh...
01:51 PM, Feb 22, 2012
United Nations: Adding yet another feather to its cap, India has been re-elected to a key UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination, more than a week after securing membership of the powerful Joint Inspection Unit, the only external oversight body of the United Nations. India's nominee Ambassador Dilip Lahiri was re-elected to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a body under the UN Human Rights...
09:55 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Washington: Six years after he was denied prison guard's job in California as he refused to shave off his beard required by his Sikh religion, an Indian-American has finally been appointed as a correctional officer in the prison and won $ 295,000 in damages. Trilochan Singh Oberoi, 63, has reached a settlement in this regard with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) as a result of which he...
05:13 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: A Dalit MLA was allegedly discriminated against because of caste identity in Orissa. The MLA Kashinath Mallik has alleged that he was not allowed to eat food along with others at an official meeting. He said that he was segregated and served in a separate room. "What happened was wrong. The other MLAs were seated and served lunch in the refreshment room. We were sitting in the other...
07:19 AM, Jul 23, 2011
London: Many call centre employees in India take on western names while interacting with callers, but now a Leicester-based telesales company has been found guilty of racial discrimination for forcing Indian-origin employees to adopt English names. Employee Rahul Jain, 28, was made to change his name to Rob Matthews, by the Teachares 2 Parents company, which offers 'effortless communication' between teachers and parents. His white colleagues could retain their original...
09:36 AM, Jul 03, 2011
Puri: The chairman of the National Commission for Schedule Castes was denied entry at a temple in Puri. PL Punia, who is a Dalit himself, was allowed entry just till the compound, but found the main temple doors shut. The Congress MP has said that he will take up the matter. It seemed more like a police raid than a temple worship escorted by a police force and Dalits from...
09:10 AM, Jun 25, 2011
New Delhi: Over 300 people have been arrested in Tamil Nadu's Thondamutur town for caste discrimination. All those arrested are members of a higher caste Gounder community and were trying to stop a bus from entering a low caste village, that houses about 500 Dalit families. One of the villagers from the minority community said, "When we travel in buses we are forced to get up from our seats and...
12:18 PM, Jun 24, 2011
New York: Women saw little advancement in corporate boardrooms and compensation in 2010, extending a 5-year trend in which companies have lagged in promoting and mentoring of women to their own detriment, according to a new study released on Monday. "Corporate America needs to get 'unstuck' when it comes to advancing women to leadership," said Ilene Lang, president and chief executive of Catalyst, a non-profit organization that advocates greater opportunities...
03:39 PM, Dec 14, 2010
In addition to the numerous controversies surrounding the Games, African diplomats have now complained that Australia and New Zealand have been provided with better accommodation arrangements. ...
12:11 PM, Sep 26, 2010
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