JMM has fielded 21 candidates for the elections to the 126-member Assam assembly. Assam is home to nearly 60 lakh tea tribe and Adivasi vot...

Tiwa students blocked National Highway-27 demanding proper implementation of the Tiwa Autonomous Council and land rights, leading to clashe...

Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal has indicated a positive consideration for granting Scheduled Tribe status to six communities in Assam. T...

Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated new ST status recommendations will not impact current tribal communities. A three-member ...

A Group of Ministers has recommended granting Scheduled Tribe status to six major communities in Assam. These communities have long sought ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has voiced support for the genuine demand for Scheduled Tribe status by several communities. Prote...

The Assam government has partnered with the State Bank of India (SBI) to provide financial assistance to 1,181 former rebels. Each individu...

The Congress leaders talked about past connections the tribes had with Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chotta Nagpur and how they migrated to ...

Addressing the BJP’s Tea Morcha Executive Meeting in Jorhat on Friday, Sarma said, “The number of these people increased from 27 percent to...

The assembly passing the proposal has led celebrations in some areas. Welfare of Plain Tribes and Backward Classes Minister Chandan Brahma ...

Known as the tea tribe, Assam's nearly 60 lakh Adivasis are a dominant chunk of voters in 800-odd tea gardens spread across 126 Assembly se...

Adivasis, say observers, suffer because they are caught in the vortex of Assam's ethnicity-based politics. The BTAD has tried to use the ad...

Altogether 81 people have been killed since Tuesday evening in serial attacks by NDFB(S) terrorists, retaliatory violence and alleged polic...

"We have decided to observe a dawn-to-dusk bandh in Assam, WB, Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand in protest against the killing of adivasis," Mur...

Sudam Marandi, led a group of tribal students and leaders to Patnaik and apprised him of the condition of Odisha-origin adivasis in Assam.

Majority of victims in the "barbaric" attacks were women and children and steps were being taken to ensure that the situation does not esca...

Assam Congress leader Anjan Dutta told the media that he along with 25 other legislators are opposed to giving nomination to a fresh entran...