The leopard that had entered Ghatpar village of Alipurduar on Sunday and injured eight persons, including two foresters, was tranquillised on Tuesday, 56 hours after it was first sighted.Sources said ...

Five poor tribal girls from rural Jharkhand who were earlier selected for a three-week sports-cum-cultural exchange programme in the US flew out of Ranchi airport on Monday evening. Under the program...

Mamata tried to drive home the point that the BJP, which won MP and MLA seats in Alipurduar, only played politics with the tribal populace. “Ahead of the elections, the BJP speaks of a separate...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Jharkhand chief secretary and the Garhwa district magistrate-cum-deputy commissioner to personally appear before it on June 29 over the fai...

Calcutta High Court got three additional judges on Saturday, increasing the total number to 41 against the sanctioned strength of 72 judges in the court. The new judges are Ananya Bandyopadhyay , Rai...

The body of a 55-year-old tribal woman was found at a village located under Kumarganj police station of South Dinajpur district on Thursday night. The victim’s clothes were torn and there were ...

The Roman Script for Kokborok-Choba (RSKC), a conglomeration of 56 indigenous socio-cultural organizations of Tripura have opposed the move to make Hindi a compulsory subject till Class 10 in the nort...

A team from the state forensic science laboratory on Saturday went to the spot on the banks of river Kopai in Santiniketan where a 16-year-old tribal girl was allegedly gang-raped by four “unide...

The Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) has asked its employees to wear traditional dresses once a week, triggering a political furore. The executive committee of the TTAADC has...

Around Rs 40 crore will be spent for setting up each Eklavya school ...