The Jharkhand centre of Builders Association of India (BAI) has welcomed the state’s move to change the existing rules for awarding government contracts worth up to Rs 25 crore to local firms bu...

The government is likely to move the Supreme Court for a review of its recent judgment that said states were not bound to provide reservation in jobs and there was no fundamental right that guaranteed...

The capital district administration, along with police, on Tuesday carried out a drive to check the influx of illegal migrants and apprehended 170 people from here for having no inner-line permit.The ...

The BJP is likely to give the leader of Opposition post to a tribal person, sources in the party said on Friday.Khunti MLA Nilkanth Singh Munda, who was rural development minister in the outgoing Ragh...

The United Tribal Organisation, Assam, a common platform of the Scheduled Tribes for both plains and hills, on Thursday urged the state government to implement the Gauhati High Court’s order to evic...

The Indian Constitution recognized two social groups as especially disadvantaged: the scheduled castes, known in everyday language as Dalits; and the scheduled tribes, commonly known as Adivasis. Both...

The BJP-led Centre was on Monday non-committal on legislative or judicial measures to address the concerns expressed by leaders from across parties about the fate of reservation for Dalits and tribals...

It is rather ironic, if not bizarre, that after 72 years of Independence, there is now a growing number of communities desiring to be classed as scheduled tribes. This phenomenon is particularly stron...

Two student unions in two Upper Assam towns, separated by a little over 40km, held protests to demand Scheduled Tribe status for their own communities and several others. Activists of the Duliajan uni...

The emotive issue of whether those accused of atrocities against Dalits or tribals should be arrested immediately and denied anticipatory bail will now come up before a three-judge bench, with the pos...