New Delhi, May 24 (IANS ) Members of various tribal communities, who took part in the grand ‘Janjati Sanskritik Samagam’ (Tribal Cultural Conclave), held in the national capital on Sunday, asserted that people belonging to different states and communities should be proud to display their culture.With Union Home Minister Amit Shah as the chief guest, the event is being held to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary year of tribal icon Birsa Munda. A significant part of the event was also organis…
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New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend a grand “Janjati Sanskritik Samagam” (Tribal Cultural Conclave) as the chief guest at the historic Red Fort grounds in Delhi on Sunday, commemorating the 150th birth anniversary year of tribal icon Bhagwan Birsa Munda.The mega cultural gathering is expected to draw nearly 1.5 lakh representatives from more than 550 tribal communities across the country.The event is being organised to celebrate tribal identity, indigenous trad…
Kohima, May 22 (IANS) Nagaland Governor Nand Kishore Yadav on Friday called upon academic institutions, researchers, policymakers and civil society organisations to work collectively towards documenting, preserving, promoting and reinterpreting the tribal heritage of Northeast India in ways that remain relevant to contemporary society. Addressing the inaugural session of the National Seminar on the theme “Revisiting Tribal Heritage of Northeast India: Challenges and Opportunities” at Nagalan…
Guwahati, May 22 (IANS) Newly elected Congress MLA Zubair Anam Mazumder has said that entering the Assam Legislative Assembly for the first time and taking oath as a legislator felt like a student attending school on the first day. Mazumder, who won from the Algapur Katlichera Assembly constituency in Hailakandi district with a record margin of more than one lakh votes, on Thursday described the experience as entirely new and emotionally significant.Speaking to reporters after taking oath in the…
Ranchi, May 19 (IANS) The Congress’s Jharkhand unit on Tuesday demanded that the Centre implement a Sarna religion code in the ongoing Census to ensure a distinct religious identity for tribal communities.Addressing a press conference at the party office here, state Congress President Keshav Mahto Kamlesh and CLP leader Pradeep Yadav said that more than 1.25 crore people in the country follow the tribal Sarna faith, but there is no separate code or column for it in the Census forms.They said thi…
Guwahati, May 13 (IANS) Assam Congress President and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party over the issue of the Uniform Civil Code, alleging that the ruling party was using the constitutional provision for political polarisation rather than promoting equality and justice. Speaking to reporters here, Gogoi questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party’s commitment to equal rights and equal treatment for citizens, claiming that the party does not g…
Bhopal, April 21 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government has called a one-day special session of the Legislative Assembly on April 27 to discuss women’s empowerment and their holistic development, but the move has sparked a political debate, with the opposition questioning its intent. The session, themed ‘Nari Shakti Vandan’, comes at a significant time following the recent failure of a key women’s reservation proposal in Parliament.A notification issued on Tuesday confirmed that the …
Bhopal, April 20 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel on Monday urged Indian Forest Service (IFS) trainee officers to adopt a people-centric and service-oriented approach to forest governance. Addressing the 2024–26 batch during a courtesy visit at Lok Bhawan, he said the role of forest officers goes far beyond administration and carries a larger responsibility towards nature, wildlife, tribal communities and future generations.“The Indian Forest Service is not merely an administra…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan on Sunday inaugurated a conference titled ‘Transformation of Tribal Lives through Science and Technological Interventions – Preserving Language, Faith and Culture’ at Bharat Mandapam in the national capital. The conference was organised by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, in collaboration with the North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) and ITITI Doon Sanskriti School, Dehradun.Ad…
Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday warned people of Jhargram to remain vigilant as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would try to bring in outsiders from neighbouring Jharkhand to influence the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal. Addressing an election rally in Jhargram, Chief Minister Banerjee sent a message to the Trinamool Congress to be more careful before the upcoming state elections. She gave instructions to the Trinamool Congress workers…