NEW DELHI — The rape and slaying of two teenage girls in an Indian village threatened to touch off wider strife Thursday, when the father of one of the girls said the crime was the product of a ...

Since Lalu Yadav’s 1995 win, Bihar has been governed by minority-led parties and OBC or Dalit chief ministers. Lalu Yadav was accused of banishing upper caste people from important posts, and Nitish ...

NEW DELHI - The rape and murder of two teenage girls in an Indian village threatened to touch off wider strife Thursday, when the father of one of the girls said the crime was the product of a ...

Bihar's assembly elections are dominated by caste politics, with parties meticulously crafting manifestos and candidate lists to appeal to traditional voter bases. Despite a recent caste survey ...

Caste politics in Bihar did not begin with Lalu Prasad Yadav. Its origins go further back to the 1920s, when land, labour and ritual intersected. The Mandal Commission transformed Bihar’s power ...

Samajwadi Party President and Lok Sabha MP Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday claimed that the census notification doesn’t include any column for caste, alleging that the proposed caste-based survey is yet ...

NEW DELHI: The next NDA government in Bihar is expected to give proportional representation to all castes as well as women. Sources indicated that the NDA, led by JDU’s Nitish Kumar, has decided to ...

Lucknow bench rules only Parliament can grant powers beyond model code violations while hearing a PIL seeking action against ...

RJD leader Sanjay Yadav on Tuesday accused the Union government of merely referring to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in ...