Tribe

The Tsimanes, consisting of 16,000 people, live a fully subsistence lifestyle, relying on hunting, foraging and farming to survive.

Days after the Thadou Tribe Council (TTC) denied any knowledge of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh's outreach for peace talks in the violence-hit state, a global body of the Thadou tribe has alleged the TTC is run by "Kuki supremacists".

A top global body of the Thadou tribe has welcomed Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh's statement in the assembly that all communities are working hard to bring peace in the ethnic violence-hit state, except for a few agenda-driven leaders.

Pictures show the structure partly collapsed after heavy downpours on July 30, which washed away one side.

There is no provision for creamy layer in reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Constitution as envisaged by BR Ambedkar, the Centre said today days after the Supreme Court order on sub quotas.

Peru's Mashco Piro tribe recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon.

Three members of an adivasi family, including an elderly man and his son, were beaten to death with sticks allegedly by people from a fellow tribe over an old enmity in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Panna district, a police official said on Friday.

A section of the Thadou tribes represented by the Manipur-based Thadou Students' Association (TSA) has formed a global platform to look into critical issues facing the community, particularly in Manipur, the TSA's general headquarters said.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today said he met representatives of several small tribes and heard their concerns about bigger tribes trying to suppress their identities.

BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday opposed the recent Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes, and said Parliament should overturn the ruling.

The Hmar tribe's civil society group in Manipur has refused to recognise a peace meeting between the Hmars and Meitei representatives moderated by the district commissioner and senior officers of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Assam Rifles.

Siddaramaiah on Thursday called the Supreme Court's ruling on internal quota for Scheduled Castes and Tribes 'historic', and said that a major obstacle in the implementation of internal reservation has been removed thanks to the verdict.

Representatives of the Meitei community and the Hmar tribe held a peace meeting in Manipur's Jiribam today, and agreed to work for normalcy nearly two months after ethnic violence reached the district bordering Assam.

Delivering the landmark judgment clearing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to extend reservation to the more marginalised, Justice BR Gavai said the State must come up with a policy to identify the creamy layer

A seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court today okayed subclassification within Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories to provide reservation in jobs and education for the more marginalised among backward communities.

The Tsimanes, consisting of 16,000 people, live a fully subsistence lifestyle, relying on hunting, foraging and farming to survive.

Days after the Thadou Tribe Council (TTC) denied any knowledge of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh's outreach for peace talks in the violence-hit state, a global body of the Thadou tribe has alleged the TTC is run by "Kuki supremacists".

A top global body of the Thadou tribe has welcomed Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh's statement in the assembly that all communities are working hard to bring peace in the ethnic violence-hit state, except for a few agenda-driven leaders.

Pictures show the structure partly collapsed after heavy downpours on July 30, which washed away one side.

There is no provision for creamy layer in reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Constitution as envisaged by BR Ambedkar, the Centre said today days after the Supreme Court order on sub quotas.

Peru's Mashco Piro tribe recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon.

Three members of an adivasi family, including an elderly man and his son, were beaten to death with sticks allegedly by people from a fellow tribe over an old enmity in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Panna district, a police official said on Friday.

A section of the Thadou tribes represented by the Manipur-based Thadou Students' Association (TSA) has formed a global platform to look into critical issues facing the community, particularly in Manipur, the TSA's general headquarters said.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today said he met representatives of several small tribes and heard their concerns about bigger tribes trying to suppress their identities.

BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday opposed the recent Supreme Court verdict allowing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes, and said Parliament should overturn the ruling.

The Hmar tribe's civil society group in Manipur has refused to recognise a peace meeting between the Hmars and Meitei representatives moderated by the district commissioner and senior officers of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Assam Rifles.

Siddaramaiah on Thursday called the Supreme Court's ruling on internal quota for Scheduled Castes and Tribes 'historic', and said that a major obstacle in the implementation of internal reservation has been removed thanks to the verdict.

Representatives of the Meitei community and the Hmar tribe held a peace meeting in Manipur's Jiribam today, and agreed to work for normalcy nearly two months after ethnic violence reached the district bordering Assam.

Delivering the landmark judgment clearing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to extend reservation to the more marginalised, Justice BR Gavai said the State must come up with a policy to identify the creamy layer

A seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court today okayed subclassification within Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe categories to provide reservation in jobs and education for the more marginalised among backward communities.