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Sonbhadra (UP), Mar 19 (ANI): Displaced tribals Uttar Pradesh’’s Sonbhadra district staged a demonstration on Thursday against the Bahujan Samaj Party-led state government, demanding adequate compensation.
The tribals say that they have not yet received the compensation promised by the state government, which took their land for setting up a thermal power plant.
“The government promised us [...]

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers refused to subject themselves to a controversial full-body scan at a Washington airport, a media report said on Sunday.
The six-member group of the parliament members from Pakistan’s restive tribal region cut short their official US visit immediately to return home, the Pakistani Express News channel said. It was the [...]

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers refused to subject themselves to a controversial full-body scan at a Washington airport, a media report said on Sunday.
The six-member group of the parliament members from Pakistan’s restive tribal region cut short their official US visit immediately to return home, the Pakistani Express News channel said. It was the [...]

Pakistan military on Tuesday said it would soon launch an anti-Taliban offensive in Orakzai and Khyber in the country’s tribal northwest.
The US has been pushing Pakistan to go after the militants in other tribal regions after the Pakistani army managed to drive out the Taliban from Swat and South Waziristan in July and October last [...]

London, Sep.19 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asked Britain to stop blaming Islamabad for the ‘home grown’ terror plots against the UK.

Referring to Britain’s lashing out at Pakistan on the liquid bomb plot issue, Qureshi said it was unfair to criticize Pakistan for every terror plot hatched [...]

Washington, Sep.18 (ANI): The Pakistan Army’s initiative to sponsor local militias, or the lashkars, as they are commonly known, may have been working in its favour against the Taliban, however some people feel such move could back fire in future.

Backed by the [...]

Dampara (Jharkhand), Sept 17 (ANI): Kantha Singh, a former motor mechanic, plays good samaritan for 42 orphans from tribal communities and runs an orphanage by begging for alms at Dampara village in Jharkhand.

Started in 2007, the orphanage had just 15 children. These children have been rendered homeless due to reckless alcoholism and polygamy prevalent [...]

New Delhi, Sep 16 (ANI): The Union Tribal Affairs Ministry has sanctioned a grant in aid of Rs. 116.90,50,000/- for Madhya Pradesh as regular allocation to bring rapid development in tribal areas of the state.

The first instalment of grant-in-aid of [...]

London, Sep. 11 (ANI): Mehdi Ghezali, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee of Swedish origin has been arrested in Pakistan.

Before being arrested at a checkpoint in the southern town of Dera Ghazi Khan, Ghezali was travelling with a group [...]

Washington, Sep.10 (ANI): The United States has made it clear that it would not hesitate to retaliate if its citizens are targeted by militants based in Pakistan.

In an interview with the PBS, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen said Islamabad is also aware that if US citizens are targeted by Pakistani [...]

Koraput (Orissa), Sep. 8 (ANI): Orissa’s tribal-dominated Koraput district remained tense on Tuesday, a day after a man was killed in a clash, which broke out between the two factions of the Maoist backed tribal outfit, Chasi Muliya Adivasi [...]

London, Sep.8 (ANI): The Supreme Council of the KNP held an important meeting in Luton on September 6, which was presided by the party Chairman Abbas Butt. The meeting discussed and analysed the current situation of the Kashmiri struggle and made important decisions.

The Supreme Council strongly condemned the government of Pakistan’s latest attempts to [...]

Bhubneshwar, Sep. 7 (ANI): Violence has rocked Orissa’s Narayanpatna region following a clash between the two factions of the Maoist backed tribal outfit Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS).

Involved in forcible acquisition of lands from non-tribal farmers for past [...]

Agartala, Sep. 6 (ANI): Thousands of tribal families turned out to participate in a financial outreach camp organized by the Reserve Bank of India in Pitra village of Tripura.

The camp was organised with the objective of bringing awareness among villagers about banking norms.

“Bank wants to lend for projects which would generate economic activity will lead [...]

Gajapati (Orissa), Sep 4 (ANI): Malaria scare is on an all time high in Orissa’s Gajapati district as at least 15 tribals have succumbed to the deadly disease in the past one-month and around 300 people are being treated at ill-equipped primary health care centres.

Being one of the tribal [...]

Palada (Tamil Nadu), Sep 3 (ANI): A museum in Tamil Nadu’s Palada district provides an insight into the life of tribal communities living in Nilgiri Hills as it displays traditional tribal weapons, utensils, musical instruments, jewellery [...]

Washington, Sep.2 (ANI): A leading conservative columnist, George Will, has called on the Obama administration to pull American troops out of Afghanistan, and instead focus on fighting from “offshore” by means of “intelligence, drones, cruise [...]

Raipur, Sep 2 (ANI): The Chhattisgarh Government on Wednesday placed a demand for grant of Rs 94.22 crore from the Central Government to develop educational facilities in the Maoist- affected areas.

According to State Government sources, Chief Minister Raman Singh himself put the demand before Union Tribal Affairs Minister Kantilal Bhuria when the duo met here.

According [...]

Guwahati, Sep.1 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday set a September 15 deadline for the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel) a.k.a. the “Black Widow” terror group to surrender.

Talking to reporters here, Gogoi said that the state government would not extend [...]

Islamabad, Aug.29 (ANI): The United States would like to ensure the ‘highest standards of accountability’ in utilization of aid being provided to Pakistan by the Obama administration in order to make sure that the funds are being utilized exactly for the purpose it is allotted for, a top US official has said.

Interacting with media persons [...]