New Delhi asks Bengal to fast track central schemes after Mamata exitThe Centre has flagged West Bengal's failure to implement key central schemes for tribal welfare. Programs like PM-JANMAN and DAJGUA, launc...
07 May, 2026, 09.07 PM IST
Bengal reset: How BJP dismantled TMC's fortress with strategy, structure and sentiment shiftThe Bharatiya Janata Party achieved a significant victory in West Bengal, ending the Trinamool Congress's long rule. This outcome resulted ...
05 May, 2026, 07.46 PM IST
West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 Key Issues: Jobs distress, welfare politics and identity battles shape high-stakes TMC vs BJP contestWest Bengal Election 2026: West Bengal is voting in its 2026 Assembly elections. The political battle is intense, focusing on economic hard...
22 Apr, 2026, 10.42 PM IST
Union Minister Suresh Gopi backtracks on 'upper castes' remarksUnion Minister Suresh Gopi claimed that upper caste members should handle the tribal affairs portfolio to ensure better progress, which he ...
02 Feb, 2025, 11.39 PM IST
Assembly elections: Congress, Left to declare common minimum programme in Tripura soonReleasing the manifesto, Chowdhury said the BJP government at the Centre had kept pending the 125th amendment of the Constitution, but cont...
04 Feb, 2023, 09.57 PM IST
Pro-tribal outfit Shramjeevi Sanghatana to contest Maharashtra pollsPandit, who currently heads a committee on tribal welfare, has been accorded the status of a Minister of State by the Maharashtra governmen...
29 Sep, 2019, 03.59 PM IST
Madras High Court imposes costs on Adi Dravidar department secretaryThe Madras High Court has imposed costs of Rs 15,000 on the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department secretary.
02 Apr, 2016, 04.05 PM IST
Indian Council of Medical Research DG calls for new researches on tribal healthThe living standard of the tribals is changing fast, and hence non-communicable diseases are also increasing among them, she noted.
13 Oct, 2015, 01.48 PM IST
PM Modi directs tribal affairs ministry to identify projects for which TSP funds can be usedAll 28 central ministries and departments are divided into three categories as per funds set aside for TSP from their total outlay.
08 Sep, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
PM Narendra Modi government to resurrect UPA initiative, Centre to revive tribal councilNCTW was set up in 2010 by the Congress-led UPA government but the initiative never took off.
24 Aug, 2015, 03.58 AM IST
Tribal language books introduced to check dropout in OdishaThe books consist of pictorial presentation of tribal folklore with Odia translation so that the teachers could easily converse with the st...
12 Aug, 2015, 01.24 PM IST
Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram to use IT to monitor ongoing welfare projectsOram has said that the ongoing plans aimed at welfare of Tribal people will be closely monitored through application of Information Technol...
31 May, 2014, 12.06 AM IST
- Tribal affairs ministry 'turning tables' on SC order on Niyamgiri mining rights
Despite the Supreme Court's order, the village councils, or gram sabhas of the Dongria Kondh tribals may not be able to decide upon their t...
05 Jun, 2013, 03.45 AM IST
BJP, Congress helping 'mining mafia': CPICPI today charged both BJP and Congress with helping the 'mining mafia' and neglecting the welfare of tribals.
28 May, 2013, 06.55 PM IST
Department of expenditure slash tribal welfare budget,V Kishore Chandra Deo upsetThe department of expenditure has already given feelers that the expenditure has not been up to the mark .
11 Jan, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- Maoist abducted collector appointed Jairam Ramesh's private secretary
R Vineel Krishna, the Malkangiri collector who shot into limelight after Maoists abducted him in February, has been appointed as the privat...
12 Jun, 2011, 10.27 AM IST
- Govt hopes to gain brownie points on Niyamgiri
The home ministry, which is laying lot of political premium on environment ministry’s decision against Vedanta’s bauxite mining plans in Or...
25 Aug, 2010, 02.55 AM IST