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Do students from marginalised communities at JNU expect to be failed by professors during PhD admission interviews?

While the varsity has said selection committees are not provided with details on the student's caste, students claim that there is simply no shielding them from discrimination due to personal bias

Published on 3rd January 2022
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Uttarakhand: Sacked Dalit cook reappointed, 31 booked for discrimination under SC/ST Act

Demanding justice for her, the Uttarakhand SC/ST Commission had earlier threatened to approach the court if she is not reinstated immediately. She finally got her job back on December 31

Published on 31st December 2021
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Uttarakhand SC,ST Commission to go to court if Dalit cook sacked after student boycott is not reinstated

What is moreover worrisome is that after removing Devi from the job, the district education officers appointed Pushpa Bhatt, a Brahmin cook

Published on 30th December 2021
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SC students boycott mid-day meal in an Uttarakhand government school. Here's why 

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan said that his outfit will gherao Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami if the Dalit woman is not reinstated

Published on 27th December 2021
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Tamil Nadu headmistress makes students clean toilets for coming late, gets booked under SC/ST Act

The incident that took place on December 17 was confirmed through an inquiry mooted by the school education department officials

Published on 25th December 2021
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What happened on December 10: What do Emily Dickinson and Marie Curie have in common?

From an enigmatic poet to the lady who gave us light in the dark. Also, the Nobel Committee in 1902 almost got itself cancelled for this massive oversight

Published on 10th December 2021
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Now, Harvard University to protect student workers against caste discrimination with anti caste-bias clause

A Dalit alumni of Harvard University said that the win is a critical step in ensuring that there is at least an avenue of recourse for students like him who have experienced caste-based discrimination

Published on 3rd December 2021
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Why don't you clean my toilet: Amid delay in NEET PG counselling, SC, ST, OBC doctors reveal discrimination, caste abuse

Doctors who EdexLive spoke to have shared instances of targeted and caste-based abuses that they were subjected to, especially after July 2021

Published on 4th December 2021
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University of California adds caste to its anti-discrimination policy after student complaints pile in

Last year, California regulators sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters because he is a Dalit man

Published on 20th November 2021
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Deepa Mohanan finally calls off her hunger strike after all her demands are met by MG University

Dr Nandakumar Kalarikkal, who had allegedly made casteist remarks against her, has been ousted from the university

Published on 8th November 2021
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Kerala students apprehensive about joining DU, fear discrimination and regional jingoism over cutoff fracas 

Many students who passed out recently from this college said that discrimination for students from Kerala has existed for few years now and it is not something new to happen this year

Published on 8th October 2021
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Line of discrimination: Dalit children in Amethi school made to sit in separate rows for mid day meals by headmistress 

This is the second instance of discrimination against Dalit children in a school in Uttar Pradesh in recent history - and it's all coming to a head just after reopening

Published on 1st October 2021
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Ensure no official, faculty indulges in caste-based discrimination against students, University Grants Commission directs varsities

The commission noted that the university may constitute a committee to look into the discrimination complaints received from the SC, ST, OBC students, teachers and non-teaching staff

Published on 14th September 2021
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Girls and boys to be taught in separate classrooms; only female lecturers for girls. Afghan educational institutions reopen under new norms

The officials are worried about the girls' low attendance at the universities. Students cite lack of security as reason

Published on 7th September 2021
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Study finds women receive less credit for their work in academic publications

The findings were drawn from an analysis of 5,575 survey responses from researchers in the natural sciences, medicine, engineering, social sciences, and professional fields

Published on 6th September 2021

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