Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said 'Urban Naxals' were trying to gain entry into Gujarat by changing their appearance, but the state will destroy them. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi......
Tribal aspirations, ranging from better schools to simplification of forest laws in favour of tribals, to recognition of tribal religions and tribal empowerment, have soared with the election of......
The new ordinance on land acquisition will allow land grabbers to deprive millions, destroy agriculture, horticulture, rivers, forests, tree cover and mangroves to extract minerals as well as......
In a hard-hitting attack on Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Jharkhand for its "ineffective" anti-Naxal operations, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said despite the alarming escalation in Maoist......
The killing of Sister Valsa John over tribal rights is another episode of land dispute in the coal belt, writes Sreelatha Menon Why would 40 people kill a solitary nun in a remote village in......
Amendments to the Child Labour Act say children can work in ‘family enterprises’ but the definition isn’t clear, points out Shyamal Majumdar. Varun Gandhi may have gone overboard......
Three years since a complete ban on child labour in the country, more than 1 crore (10 million) children are still working in various areas and worse, the government has no data on enforcement of......
With child labour all set to be banned from Tuesday, social activists fear that the law, though well-meaning, could result in under-age workers getting pushed into hidden and more dangerous......
Every single day at 12.30 pm, come rain or shine, about a dozenactivists of a little known organisation called the Samajwadi Abhiyaan (Socialist Movement) march from Jantar Mantar to the Parliament......