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Bhubaneswar: William Shakespeare’s renowned quote, “What’s in a name?” from his play Romeo and Juliet, doesn’t hold true for the Mankidia people.

The Tai Ahom Yuba Parishad, Assam (TAYPA) has threatened to launch a mass statewide agitation if the government fails to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) st

India News: The Manipur high court has allowed four tribal organisations to appeal a previous HC order of March 27 this year directing the state government to sen

The court said, "taking into consideration the nature of arguments advanced by the learned counsel appearing for the parties which needs to be examined and decided on the basis of the materials available in the connected writ appeal and writ petition and taking into consideration the grievances raised by the applicants, we are inclined to grant leave sought by the applicants in the present application."

“Our rail roko will continue until the Centre includes the Kurmi community in the ST list and our language Kurmali, in the eighth schedule of the Constitution, and a separate religion code for us. We appeal to railway passengers to bear with us since we have been left with no other option. We have been agitating for the past 73 years,” said AKS central secretary Jairam Mahato.

A section of Meiteis have justified the violence, claiming that it was the result of action taken by the state administration to check illegal influx from an open border with Myanmar; poppy cultivation by the hill tribes; and Kuki militant groups unleashing violence. This needs to be checked.

When the first Backward Classes Commission requested a list of tribes to be included in the Scheduled Tribes (modification) list from each state and union territory, Meities did not include themselves. 

The protest started at 6 am on Tuesday with the blockade of the old National Highway 6, which connects Kolkata to Mumbai, at Khemasuli in Kharagpur local police station area by Kurmi Samaj West Bengal

The High Court said that a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution can be maintained only by an aggrieved person whose legal or constitutional right has been infringed.