Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Sugra Adiwasi & Others Vs Pathranand & Others dated 29/04/2025. The bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the state of Madhya Pradesh as well as the central government through the the Ministries of Tribal Affairs and …
Naxalites of CPI (Maoist) kidnapped three TDP members in G.K. Veedhi mandal in Visakhapatnam district on Monday evening, stepping up their campaign against the State Government’s plans to mine bauxite in the Agency areas, which is being strongly opposed by local tribes and environmentalists. TDP mandal party president Mamidi Balayya …
Agartala: Tripura government will construct 8000 houses to rehabilitate shifting cultivators, who are mainly living in the tree-top houses (Tong ghar) in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomus District Council Areas constituting two-thirds of the state territory. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced that state government would provide houses to hardcore Jhumia …
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya government on Tuesday submitted draft mining guidelines for coal mining activities in the state to the NGT following the interim ban on coal mining since April 2014 in the state. "We have submitted the draft mining guidelines prepared by Meghalaya's mining and geology department for coal mining …
In recent years, there has been growing attention and effort towards securing the formal, legal recognition of land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Communities and Indigenous Peoples are estimated to hold as much as 65 percent of the world’s land area under customary systems, yet many governments formally …
The transformative Agenda, adopted on Friday, lays out the global goals for reducing poverty, in all its dimensions, over the next decade and a half The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has welcomed the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the UN General Assembly. The …
The government on Wednesday announced launching a new scheme named Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) which will focus on safeguarding health, environment and economic conditions of the tribals living in areas near mines. Around Rs.6,000 crore will be spent every year on the development of these regions under …
BHOPAL: State cabinet on Tuesday allotted 41.49 hectare land for Chutka Nuclear Power Plant in Mandla district. Land in tribal dominated village Chutka in Narayangunj tehsil has been allotted to Nuclear Power Corporation of India. Though the project was planned in 2009, it could not take-off under UPA regime. Renewed …
A new report has debunked the argument that the illegal wildlife trade in East Africa significantly funds terrorism - an exaggeration used to justify the militarization of anti-poaching squads and the persecution of tribal subsistence hunters. The report titled "An Illusion of Complicity: Terrorism and the Illegal Ivory Trade in …
The Civil Society Women’s Organisation (CSWO) has vehemently opposed the move of the UCIL (uranium Corporation of India Ltd) to open up new deposits in Kylleng -Pyndengsohiong -Mawthabah (KPM) project in West Khasi Hill. “This will destroy the lives of the people of our state and we will not allow …
The Myuru Zilla Panchayat plans to install solar lighting systems in rural areas so that students are not inconvenienced when there are long hours of power cuts. According to ZP president Pushpavathi Amaranath, the ZP has already installed solar lighting systems in over 75 houses in Rangaiahnahalli Hadi in Hunsur …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Committee for C.R. of C.A.P. & Others Vs. State of Arunachal Pradesh & Others dated 17/09/2015 regarding grant citizenship to the Chakma and Hajong Tribals who migrated to India in 1964-1969 and were settled in the State of Arunachal …
Tribal organisations like Niyamgiri Suraksha Samity (NSS) and Lok Sangram Manch (LSM) are opposed to efforts of the Odisha government to start bauxite mining from Karlapat mines to save alumina refinery of Vedanta at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district. The one million tonne capacity Lanjigarh refinery of Vedanta is facing severe …
BARIPADA: In a bid to free the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) from human interference, the forest authorities have this week shifted 35 families living in Jamunagarh village in the core area of the biosphere and rehabilitated them at Nabra, a new rehabilitation colony developed under Udala police limits in Mayurbhanj …
With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka’apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action With bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt …
KORAPUT: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has registered a fall in tribal-dominated Koraput district after introduction of the National Rural Health Mission. The District Welfare Department (DSW), entrusted with spreading awareness and providing logistical support to pregnant women in rural areas, has also has its share in it, officials said. …
- Manipur district under curfew Imphal: Seven persons have been killed in Churachandpur district since last night while protesting against amendment to the Manipur land law, prompting the administration to impose curfew till 5am tomorrow. While three protesters died in police firing today, four died during last night's arson and …
The worst wildfire season in Washington state history could be particularly devastating to the people who have lived here between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains since long before the region became part of the United States. Like other communities in the rural hills and valleys here, the Confederated …
Bihar's public distribution system used to be one of the worst in India, but the system has improved significantly from 2011 onwards. The National Food Security Act, backed early on by the political leadership, enabled the state to include the bulk of the rural population in this improved system. However, …
India is one of the frontrunners in the globe, where a forest policy has been in vogue since long ago. The tribal rights were very much respected during the British regime. The written documents on forest policy were revised twice for protection of forests in 1952 and 1988 by the …
The NDA government's rewrite of the land bill, though slammed for being “anti-farmer“, attempts to correct more than 50 drafting and typographical errors, omissions and contradictions that actually defeat the law's “pro-poor“ intent by denying farmers and tribals benefits of fair and enhanced compensation. Apart from political battles over consent …
