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  Republic Day 2024: Tableaus set to display 'women empowerment' at Kartavya Path

  India | January 23, 2024 7:19 IST

  This Republic Day, tableaus are all set to display 'women empowerment' at Kartavya Path, as the Centre aims to make the programme a women-centric one with the motto 'Viksit Bharat'.

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  Odisha: District topper tribal girl gets govt's help after her video working as labourer goes viral

  India | June 01, 2023 16:16 IST

  Odisha tribal student: The Odisha government helped Bonda tribal student whose video of working as a daily labourer to meet study expenses went viral on social media.

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  Manipur Violence: How demography divide turned into ethnic clashes between Kuki-Meitei I EXPLAINED

  Explainers | May 30, 2023 18:19 IST

  Manipur violence: What leads to the clash in the northeastern region, which is often dubbed as "The Jewel of India"? Let's decode the ethnic clash.

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  'Protect places of worship, provide security to people': SC asks Centre, Manipur govt

  India | May 08, 2023 17:20 IST

  The court said these are "humanitarian issues", and asked the Centre and state to make necessary arrangements in relief camps.

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  Suspended Jharkhand BJP leader sent to police remand till Sept 12 for torturing tribal help

  India | August 31, 2022 14:16 IST

  Jharkhand tribal woman news: BJP leader Seema Patra has been accused of torturing a tribal woman, who worked as her house help. Soon after, BJP suspended Patra.

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  Man kills live-in partner by smashing her head against electric pole

  Crime | August 17, 2022 17:37 IST

  The couple had a quarrel over a petty issue on Tuesday, following which Bhoku smashed Gulapi's head against an electricity pole, said Shankar Lakra, the officer-in-charge of Bodam police station.

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  Have you seen Mamata Banerjee's impromptu dance at Alipurduar yet? Watch here

  India | June 08, 2022 16:25 IST

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee danced to the tune of Adivasi music with tribal women during her three-day visit to Alipurduar from Monday.

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  Rahul Gandhi says seniority does not guarantee party ticket

  India | May 10, 2022 21:55 IST

  Rahul Gandhi, while addressing the party's tribal leaders in Dahod, spelt out the party strategy for the tribal leaders.

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  Maharashtra: Tribal students from remote villages in Gadchiroli, Melghat clear NEET

  Education | November 03, 2021 12:36 IST

  Suraj Pungati (19), a resident of Nagargunda village in Bhamragad taluka of Gadchiroli, is happy to have surpassed his own expectations by scoring 378 out of 720 in NEET

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  Tribal people not getting any jobs in Tripura: Manik Sarkar

  India | February 15, 2020 22:06 IST

  Former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Saturday alleged that tribal people in Tripura are not getting any jobs as BJP workers and supporters are getting all work under MGNREGA and other government schemes. 

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  UNACCEPTABLE! Tamil Nadu Forest Minister asks tribal boy to remove his sandals, caught on cam

  India | February 06, 2020 19:30 IST

  In a shocking incident, Tamil Nadu Forest Minister Dindigul C. Sreenivasan on Thursday asked a tribal boy to remove his footwear in the Nilgiris district of the state. Sreenivasan had gone there to inaugurate the rejuvenation camp for captive elephants in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve when the incident was caught on camera.

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  Tribal girl raped by headmistress' husband at Odisha residential school

  India | December 07, 2019 12:35 IST

  A class VII student of a state-run residential school in Odisha's Koraput district was allegedly raped for months by the headmistress' husband, who has been arrested after the tribal girl was found to be three-month pregnant, police said on Saturday.

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  Papua New Guinea PM slams tribal violence after 16 killed

  World | July 10, 2019 12:15 IST

  Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Prime Minister has offered condolences after 16 women and children died in a tribal killing in the country's Hela Province. Prime Minister James Marape took to social media on Tuesday evening to offer his condolences.

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  7 ministries, departments haven't allocated funds for tribal welfare schemes: Officials

  India | June 26, 2019 12:00 IST

  Seven central ministries and departments have not earmarked funds for tribal welfare schemes in their budget for 2019-20 and 12 have "kept the provision below the level stipulated by the Niti Aayog", officials said Wednesday.

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  Odisha shocker: Tribal woman bleeds to death as ambulance fails to turn up

  India | January 13, 2017 17:05 IST

  In yet another shocking case of apathy, a pregnant woman in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district died after giving birth to her child due to medical negligence, claims her family. Few months before, a similar incident took

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  With nearest hospital 10 km away, tribal woman in AP cuts own womb to deliver baby

  India | December 27, 2016 12:43 IST

  In a glaring example of the shoddy state of India’s healthcare system and its access particularly to the marginalised and economically downtrodden, a tribal woman in Maredumilli mandal in Andhra Pradesh was forced to cut open her own womb to deliver

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  ‘So what,’ asks Maharashtra Minister after 600 tribal children die from malnutrition

  Politics | September 18, 2016 10:47 IST

  Maharashtra's Tribal Welfare Minister Vishnu Sawra has landed himself in a soup after his casual response to a tragedy in which 600 tribal children perished due to malnutrition in Palghar.

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  Odisha: Tribal man carries dead wife's body for 10 km; health authorities deny negligence in arranging vehicle

  India | August 25, 2016 23:45 IST

  District health authorities have claimed that there was no negligence and an ambulance was arranged to take the corpse to their village when the incident came to light.

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  9-day old girl dies after being branded with hot bangles in Odisha

  India | January 26, 2016 19:37 IST

  Nabarangpur(Odisha): In an inhuman incident, a nine-day-old infant girl died after being branded with hot bangles by a traditional healer at the instance of her superstitious parents in a tribal dominated village in Nabarangpur district

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  Tribal man dies of starvation in Odisha

  India | October 26, 2015 19:51 IST

  Nayagarh (Odisha): A 70-year-old tribal Chandramani Jani died of starvation in Udaipur panchayat under Nuagaon block of Nayagarh district on Saturday, local villagers said.Chandramani and his wife Padma, 62, lived in a dialpidated hut, and