The FRA is one of the three rights-based legislations passed by UPA1 -- along with the National Rural Employment Guarentee Act (NREGA) and ...

Issues of rights and empowerment of tribals and forest dwellers, as well as incidents of their exploitation kept the Tribal Affairs Ministr...

Rahul Gandhi will be formally appointed the second in command of Congress, paving his way to lead the grand old party into the next general...

Manmohan Singh today effected a major reshuffle of his Council of Ministers and expressed confidence that the new team would be able to mee...

K Rehman Khan, Dinshaw Patel, Maken, Pallam Raju, Ashwani Kumar, Harish Rawat and Chandresh Kumari have been sworn-in as Cabinet ministers.

The Congress will also be revamped after the reshuffle with Rahul Gandhi taking charge of an important responsibility.

Besides providing individual financial assistance, the NSTFDC will also allocate funds for income generating activities by SHGs.

For capacity building of tribal population and retail marketing of products manufactured by them, Government has approved a road map for Tr...

There are 2,474 forest villages spread across 12 states. Of these, Assam has the max no of forest villages at 499 and UP has the least at 1...