In Coimbatore, a Dalit eighth-grader was allegedly barred from her classroom during her period and forced to take her annual exam on the staircase. Following a departmental inquiry, the school ...

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – A private school in Coimbatore, a district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, forced a Dalit ...

The headmistress of the school has been suspended for the ‘discrimination’ towards the girl who was menstruating, according ...

Following the menstrual cycle, the school management allegedly made her sit outside the classroom to write her ... media on Wednesday night," said a Dalit activist.

A video of the girl - who happens to be a Dalit -- sitting on the steps of the classroom was widely circulated, drawing action from the authorities. An inquiry has been ordered and the ...

Coimbatore police have filed a case against a private school's management after a Dalit girl was allegedly made to sit outside during exams due to men ...

A 13-year-old student in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore was asked to sit outside her classroom to write her exam after the school authorities got to know that she was menstruating. The district school ...

Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader Dr Thol Thirumavalavan on Thursday, April 10, expressed shock over the incident ...

writing the annual exam sitting outside her classroom. After a video of the girl,... The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan).

forced a Dalit student on her period to take the end-of-year exams sitting on the steps outside the classroom. The incident, which took place last Wednesday at the Swamy Chidbhavananda Matric ...