Assam's Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, launched a one-time financial assistance scheme, distributing Rs 5,000 each to over 6 lakh tea garden workers. This initiative is part of broader efforts ...

The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam on Friday opposed the state ministers’ report that recommends granting Scheduled Tribe status to six communities. The committee said that ...

GUWAHATI: The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA) has rejected the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to grant Scheduled Tribes (ST) status to six communities ...

Addressing the Mising Youth Festival in Assam, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the path to protect rights, culture, and language is through such festivals, not arms, and praised the community's ...

Several thousand tea estate workers, many of them Catholics, in India’s northeastern state of Assam staged a mass protest on Oct. 13 to demand constitutional status as tribal people, higher wages, and ...

Addressing the media after a cabinet meeting held at Lok Sewa Bhawan in Dispur on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said the SIT report pertained to a case registered against Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer ...

The Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA), an umbrella body of 26 tribal organisations, on Friday rejected the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) for inclusion of ...

Congress leader Pawan Khera questions Union Home Minister Amit Shah on unfulfilled promises to Assam's tea gardeners and ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], December 24 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday presented appointment letters to 215 candidates from the Tea Tribes and Adivasi communities for ...

Church leaders in India’s northeastern state of Assam have joined a tribal students' group to oppose the provincial government’s move to accord tribal status to six dominant ethnic groups. The All ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday announced that the state government would extend 3 per cent reservation for the Adivasi and Tea communities to Grade-I and Grade-II positions in the ...