State Congress general secretary Rajneesh Kimta said the women in tribal Spiti valley had blocked Markanda’s entry in the district amid COVID-19 pandemic and they demanded that the minister should be quarantined as per set guidelines.
June 13, 2020Present in good numbers under the banner of National Adivasi-Indigenous Religion Coordination Committee, they said tribals have a separate identity, not associated with any religion, and therefore require a separate column in the census.
February 18, 2020Referring to the Centre's ambitious bullet train project, which has faced stiff opposition from farmers and tribals whose lands are to be acquired, Thackeray said there should be a comprehensive discussion on its viability.
February 4, 2020Pathalgarhi is an ancient practice in the tribal communities of Jharkhand where stones signify self-rule by the local village panchayat, declaring the village as sovereign territory and prohibiting the entry of outsiders into the village.
January 23, 2020The accused were identified as Jolly Naik Seth and supervisor Madhukar Pawar, both from Anjur village in the district, the official said.
January 11, 2020A three-day National Tribal Dance Festival began on Friday at the Science College ground in the capital, in which tribals from 25 states will participate.
December 27, 2019The move comes after the indictment of security forces, by a one-member judicial commission set up to probe an alleged encounter in which 17 people, including six minors, were killed in Sarkeguda, in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, in June 2012.
December 12, 2019Guwahati, the epicentre of the protests, was placed under indefinite curfew while mobile internet services were suspended in 10 districts in the state.
December 12, 2019The dispute between the villagers and the village chief pertains to a piece of 36-acre land.
July 19, 2019Union Minister Sudarshan Bhagat on what the government has done for the uplift of tribals and the government’s roadmap to bring them into the national mainstream.
February 23, 2019Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Saturday expressed shock over a news report which said that 52 people from the Dalit and tribal communities had been kept enslaved in Karnataka’s Hassan.
December 22, 2018At least 13 tribals were killed during police firing in Odisha's Kalinga Nagar in January 2006.
November 19, 2018There was a time when India’s North-East as we understand today did not exist. From Khyber Pass on the Durand Line in the west, right up to the Three Pagodas Pass on the Burmese border with Siam (now Thailand), it was one huge landmass of a country. The promulgation of the Government of India Act …
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September 14, 2018I am always sorry when any language is lost because languages are the pedigree of nations. ~ Dr Samuel Johnson Things have deteriorated considerably since his time and linguists estimate that by the end of the 21st century , over half of the world’s languages will have been lost. Many of them will be lost …
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July 9, 2018Launching a stinging attack on Maoist insurgents, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that Naxals were the biggest enemies of tribal, poor and people of backward areas. “Naxals are the biggest enemies of tribal, poor and the people of backward areas. Top Maoist leaders are amassing crores of rupees and sending their children to …
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May 12, 2018Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah accused the ruling Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka of ignoring the concerns of Dalit and tribal communities. He also accused the Congress government of insulting Veer Madakari Nayaka while celebrating Tipu Jayanti. “When Siddaramaiah government celebrates Tipu jayanti and remember Haider Ali, they insult Veer Madakari Nayaka,” he said. …
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March 27, 2018The result of the Assembly elections in Tripura has shocked the CPI-M as much it has surprised the BJP. While anti-incumbency was expected to take its toll, nobody expected such a landslide for the BJP-IPFT combine, or such an abject crumbling of the Left citadel. The Left finds no reason for losing an election so …
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March 15, 2018