Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Virendra Kumar, informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that nearly 15 crore ...

Centre rejects new classification for denotified tribes despite recommendations from the Anthropological Survey of India after extensive study.

Some half a million nomads in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir are losing the battle to maintain their way of life amid conflict, scarce development opportunities and a changing climate JAMMU, ...

Caste-based discrimination in India was codified into law in 1871 by the British colonial authorities when they enacted the Criminal Tribes Act branding several nomadic and indigenous communities as ...

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dedicated himself to uplifting the Antyodaya, the poor and the deprived, who had long been neglected by ...

Jodhpur: Two days after a mahapadav convened by the Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNT) and Rashtriya Pashupalak Sangh in Pali was called off, police filed an FIR against 78 persons, ...

K Laxman, president of OBC Morcha, said the BJP is committed to the empowerment of denotified communities, many of whom were previously classified under OBC categories. NEW DELHI: The BJP is in favour ...