Bhagat Dhanna Ji is among the 15 saints whose hymns have been included in Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji while compiling Sri Adi Granth Sahib now called Sri Guru Granth Sahib 

The glaring absence of figures relating to incidents of lynching in the recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) database on the pretext that the data received from the states were “unreliable” hints at a deliberate attempt to keep the figures under wraps.

      Bhagat Ravidas Ji (1377-1527) was born to Raghu Ji and Ghurbinia Ji at Seer Goverdhanpur in Varanasi (also known as Banaras), Uttar Pardesh. In his sacred memory, at his birth place Shri Guru Ravidass Janam Asthan Mandir has been established.

Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar said on Wednesday the arrest of five prominent activists and human rights lawyers for their alleged Maoists links was an attempt by Maharashtra police to deflect attention from the various cases involving the members of right-wing Sanatan Sanstha.

 The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday stopped Pune police from taking custody of five activists who were arrested a day before for alleged Maoist links, and placed them under house arrest in their respective homes until the case is heard again on September 6.

The Pune Police on Tuesday raided the premises of rights activists in Maharashtra, Telangana, Delhi, Haryana and Goa and arrested activists Vernon Gonsalves in Mumbai, Arun Ferreira from Thane, Gautam Navlakha in Delhi, Sudha Bharadwaj in Haryana, and poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad for suspected Maoist links.

A group of people from a dominant community hacked two Dalits to death and attacked several others, injuring six people at Kachanatham village near Manamadurai in Sivaganga district on Monday. 

Friction over versions of Indian history in school texts has split the diaspora in the US. Following a dispute in California, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit transmedia artist, along with her associate Maari Zwick-Maitreyi released a study on caste in the US. 

The National Scheduled Castes Alliance (NSCA) on Sunday urged the Centre to immediately enhance the Income-Tax exemption slabs for Scheduled Castes (SC) in the country 

Yedu Krishnan scripted history today by becoming the first Dalit priest in Kerala to assume duties at the sanctum sanctorum of the Manappuram Lord Shiva Temple at nearby Thiruvalla.

The young dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on late Tuesday evening threatened that dalit anger could burn Gujarat unless state home minister resigns over attack on one more dalit youth in the state on Tuesday.