Scheduled Tribe

This land is our land: The Soliga community struggles to save its old ways of living while adapting to modernity

The inability to perform shifting agriculture and live close to the canopy of the forest has affected the Soligas' livelihoods, their kitchens, as well as the forest itself.

Assam Assembly election 2021, Dudhnai profile: BJP's Dipak Kumar Rabha handily beat Congress' Sibcharan Basumatary in 2016

Dudhnai constituency is located in Assam's Goalpara district. It is a seat reserved for Scheduled Tribe. It falls under the Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency

Assam Assembly election 2021, Kokrajhar East profile: BOPF's Pramila Rani Brahma won ST constituency in 2016

The voter turnout in Kokrajhar East in the 2016 Assembly election was 88.55 percent

Assam Assembly election 2021, Baithalangso profile: INC's Mansing Rongpi easily defeated BJP's Arun Terang in 2016

Baithalangso constituency is located in Assam's West Karbi Anglong district. It is a seat reserved for a Scheduled Tribe

Assam Assembly election 2021, Howraghat profile: BJP's Joy Ram Engleng handily beat INC's Khorsing Enti in 2016

Howraghat constituency is located in Assam's Karbi Anglong district District. It is a seat reserved for a Scheduled Tribe. It falls under the Autonomous District Lok Sabha constituency

Case of caste bias at Cisco Systems: Even 'progressive' Silicon Valley elites not immune to new strain of discrimination

This will hopefully provoke the creation of caste as new grounds for discrimination in the United States. This will help create a legal discourse on the synonymity of the manifestations between race and caste.

Ram Vilas Paswan says Centre should bring ordinance to ‘rectify’ SC order on reservation in jobs for ST, SC communities

Centre should bring an ordinance to 'rectify' SC's decision on reservation in jobs for SC, ST communities and all such issues should be included in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution to insulate them from judicial review, Ram Vilas Paswan said on Friday.

Jharkhand Assembly election 2019: 45.14% voter turnout till 1 pm in third phase; peaceful polling in all 17 constituencies, says police

Altogether 56,18,267 voters, including 26,80,205 women and 86 third gender voters, are eligible to vote to decide the fate of 309 candidates, including 32 women nominees in the third phase of Jharkhand assembly elections

Dantewada By-Election Results 2019: Congress candidate ahead in Assembly bypoll count by 2,778 votes

The Congress candidate was leading by a margin of 2,778 votes in the Dantewada assembly bypoll where counting was taken up on Friday morning.

Adivasis and the Indian State: Lauded for dance and music but pushed to margins, Gujarat's Siddi Muslims lament state apathy

While the kings of princely states had shown a lot of respect and generosity to Gujarat's Siddi Muslims, the post-independence reality has been of rejection, humiliation and neglect as the tribal community struggles to retain its culture, Muslim identity and land