Tech giant Apple has banned caste-based discrimination in the company while issuing a code of conduct for employees in the United States. The company said it had updated its general employee conduct policy two years ago to prohibit discrimination on the basis of caste along with other categories, including gender, age, religion, race and ancestry.

Tech giant Apple bans caste-based discrimination in code of conduct policy

California regulators sued Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) on Tuesday, accusing it of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to be harassed by two managers because he was from a lower Indian caste than them.

California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

Dalits have been facing discrimination for generations based on norms that have been held as tradition, but youngsters are now defying them

In India's Uttar Pradesh, salons deny service to 'lower castes'