scheduled tribes

Mumbai, March 16 – The Maharashtra Assembly on Monday passed the Freedom of Religion Bill 2026, which includes strict provisions to prohibit religious conversions carried out through coercion, fraud, inducement, or marriage, by voice vote.According to the Bill, individuals involved in unlawful...

Mumbai, March 16 The Maharashtra assembly on Monday night passed the Freedom of Religion Bill 2026, which contains stringent provisions to prohibit religious conversions carried out through coercion, fraud, inducement, or marriage, by voice vote.According to the Bill, those involved in...

Mumbai, March 16 – Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis clarified on Monday that the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026, is not directed against any specific religion. He emphasized that the Bill is being introduced solely to prevent religious conversions carried out through coercion, fraud...

Mumbai, March 16 – The proposed anti-conversion law in Maharashtra is not directed against any particular religion, and it aims only to prevent religious conversions carried out through force, fraud or inducement, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told the legislative assembly on Monday.The...

Ranchi, March 16 Jharkhand Minister Deepak Birua defended the state government's demands for grants in the Assembly on Monday, saying that recruitment and administrative reforms have been accelerated under the Hemant Soren-led government.Responding to criticism from Opposition BJP lawmakers...

Mumbai, March 16 – The proposed anti-conversion law in Maharashtra is not directed against any particular religion, and it aims only to prevent religious conversions carried out through force, fraud, or inducement, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told the legislative assembly on Monday.The...

New Delhi, March 16 The government will soon launch a revised Stand-Up India scheme to provide better benefits to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and women entrepreneurs who want to start new businesses, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday.Launched in 2016, the...

Mumbai, March 16 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Monday that several women have been lured into relationships, married, and later abandoned, asserting that the bill against fraudulent religious conversion aims to address these issues and curb such practices.Opposition...

New Delhi, March 15 The stakes are high for the BJP in the upcoming elections to five state assemblies, with West Bengal being the major test case for the saffron party.In the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, the BJP emerged as the main opposition, winning 77 seats in the 294-member...

Guwahati, March 15 The opposition Congress in Assam, plagued by defections, may face a difficult challenge in contesting the upcoming assembly elections, scheduled to be held in one phase on April 9, against the BJP. However, its state unit president, Gaurav Gogoi, has taken a defiant stand...

Tumakuru (Karnataka), March 14 Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Saturday that the police have been instructed to take legal action against those involved in hoarding and black marketing of LPG cylinders.Amid supply constraints caused by the West Asia conflict, he expressed hope...

Thane, March 14 The Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested a female official from the Scheduled Tribes certificate scrutiny committee for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh from a man to clear files of his family members in Thane city, Maharashtra, an official said on...

Kolkata, March 13 Ahead of the West Bengal assembly election, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said her government would soon constitute five new cultural and development boards for specific communities, a move aimed at consolidating support among key social groups, particularly in the...

Shillong, March 13 The Meghalaya unit of the BJP on Friday urged Governor C H Vijayashankar to convene a special session of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) to pass a resolution barring non-tribals from contesting or participating in the council elections.A delegation led by...

Mumbai, March 13 The Devendra Fadnavis government on Friday introduced the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill 2026 in the state assembly, which has stringent provisions to prohibit religious conversions carried out through coercion, fraud, inducement, or marriage.According to the Bill, those...

Tura, March 13 Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Friday said the ruling National People's Party (NPP) will resolve issues related to tribal certificates and continue to serve the people, while calling for unity and brotherhood among communities in the wake of the recent unrest in the...

Bengaluru, March 13 – Former Karnataka Chief Minister and MP Basavaraj Bommai said that the opposition, out of frustration, was trying to politicize the issue of LPG.He stated that the ongoing conflict in West Asia has created problems worldwide, and that there will be no shortage of LPG if...

Kolkata, March 13 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday that her government would establish new cultural and development boards for five communities.Banerjee, who made the announcement ahead of the assembly polls, said the boards will protect the customary rights and...

New Delhi, March 12 The Ministry of Cooperation is working to strengthen democratic governance in cooperative institutions through a series of legislative reforms, Union Minister Krishan Pal Gurjar said on Thursday.Speaking at a national seminar on transparency in the elections of multi-state...

Kota, March 12 A court for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes here on Thursday sentenced a 65-year-old man, his three sons, and six other relatives to life imprisonment for the murder of the brother of a Rajasthan Police constable seven years ago, due to rivalry in a local cooperative society...