MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh paid tribute to Tantya Bhil on his 'Balidan Diwas' (death anniversary) at Patalpani
BJP’s Raigarh MP Gomati Sai, while raising the issue of alleged religious conversion in Chhattisgarh said tribal people in the state were lured by Christian missionaries for conversion.
Patel was addressing the gathering during the 'Krantisurya Gaurav Yatra', under which urns of soil from Tantya Bhil's birth place Baroda Ahir village in Khandwa are being taken to Patalpani in Indore district, where a mega programme is scheduled on December 4 to pay tribute to this tribal revolutionary.
Chouhan said tribes in the country and Madhya Pradesh have a glorious past and tribal heroes played a very important role in the freedom struggle. The British had made all efforts to end the pride of our tribes. The state government will restore that pride, he added.
"Indigenous people will be given the right in community forest management enabling them the right over forest produce": Shivraj Singh Chouhan
The CDFI in a memorandum submitted to Shah on Friday cautioned against the "growing alienation of the Chakmas from the Bharatiya Janata Party as a result of repression on them in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tripura and Mizoram".
Munda, along with Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh, inaugurated the national conference on PESA here. He said it was the "first time in 25 years" that the two ministries were holding a joint meeting on the implementation of the Act in tribal-dominated states.
The groups traded bullets on each other in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area over a land dispute.
The police have arrested the farmer and registered an attempt of murder case.
On World Tribal Day, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that the state government is providing farmers with machinery and farming equipment worth Rs 734 crores.
In a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Tripura tribal leaders said camps set up by illegal migrants are manned by armed gangs with sophisticated ammunitions.
The IPFT’s demand for separate tribal state comes months after the alliance lost tribal area elections
Assam CM declared in the assembly that the government would settle the issue of land rights of the indigenous people who have settled in the hills of Guwahati and that they will not be evicted.
Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda and Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb reviewed various ongoing activities and central schemes for the development of the tribal people of the state.
Attack on nomad community of J&K has become a new normal which has has again brought focus on the Forest Rights Act.
Congress leader attacks BJP over a media report which claimed that scholarship for 60 lakh SC school students was stuck.
NPRD also appeals all disability rights organisations, activists to join this campaign and send sippers to Swamy.
The Forest Rights Act of 2006 provides for granting of rights to forest dwellers across the country.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.