Vijayendra Prasad acknowledged his own social background, stating that he belongs to an upper caste and was born into a ...

Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South Asia, following years of activist organizing and similar bans at ...

The Indian government officially abolished the caste system in 1950. But discrimination persists across South Asia against Dalits, a group of people from historically oppressed caste communities. And ...

Valentin Hénault came to India in 2023 to work on a documentary project about caste discrimination and was arrested by ...

Delhi University became centre of storm over UGC's anti-casteism regulations, which have been stayed for now by the Supreme Court over definitions ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to pass such ...

(RNS) — The politics around California’s recently proposed legislation banning caste-based discrimination have become contentious. They shouldn’t be. Caste discrimination remains one of the least ...

California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include ...

Karnataka's Rohith Vemula Act remains delayed amid Supreme Court's stay on UGC regulations, igniting renewed debates on caste ...

Young priest says false complaints and hostile environment forced exit while officials record statement and unions promise ...

Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...

Hitting out at the excessive use of electronic devices among children, the RSS chief warned that while gadgets, AI, ...