NEW DELHI—When Amrita Mishra passed the bar exam, she rushed out to pick up one of the biggest perks of being a lawyer in India: an “Advocate” sticker to slap on the window of her car.

But enforcement has been spotty. The popularity of stickers—and the deference they can inspire—is partly a reflection of India’s longstanding caste system, in which some people command ...

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah announced that the Socio-Economic and Education Survey report, dubbed the 'caste census,' will be discussed in the next cabinet meeting. The report has faced delays due ...

Indian-origin anti-caste activist Kshama Sawant on Friday said that the Indian government had once again denied her an emergency visa to visit her ailing mother in Bengaluru, claiming that her ...

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has now taken up a complaint of caste discrimination at the hands of the campus placement offices in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ...

Sources told India Today TV's Nagarjun Dwarkanath that Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar and a few upper caste ministers put pressure on the Congress high command to stall the tabling of ...

Indian-origin anti-caste activist Kshama Sawant said on Sunday that the Indian government had denied her a visa to visit her ailing mother in Bengaluru. United States-based Sawant was an elected ...

Of this, the highest allocation of Rs 73,498 crore was made to the Department of School Education and Literacy. From 2015-2024, India has been ... public education system. Efforts should be ...

India aims to boost local arms production and exports Pinaka system demonstrated to French delegation, found satisfactory Modi and Macron to hold bilateral talks in Paris BENGALURU, India ...

The proposed ‘Rohith Act’ aims to address these issues, and ensure equitable access to education for marginalised communities. Radhika Vemula, Rohith’s mother and an anti-caste activist ...

Canada has witnessed a sharp rise in Indian student enrollments ... while others exploited the student visa system to enter Canada primarily for work rather than education.

Upper-caste landlords’ farmlands were the sun in the solar system of serfdom. This barter order sustained the caste order ... Once at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), in fall 2007, I ...