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As the 21-member opposition I.N.D.I.A delegation reached the northeastern State to assess the ground situation, an umbrella body of tribals wrote to the grouping seeking its support for its demands. Union Ministers termed visit “mere show-off”, The Indian Tribal reports

On the eve of its visit to the troubled State over the weekend, the newly-formed Opposition grouping I.N.D.I.A on Friday (July 28) set the tone for its next course of action by seeking an inquiry under a retired Supreme Court judge into the violence in Manipur, The Indian [...]

Maintaining the Government has zero tolerance towards any crimes against women, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court that it has transferred to the CBI the probe into the case related to two women being paraded naked in Manipur, The Indian Tribal reports

A day after having its way by getting its no confidence motion against the Modi dispensation admitted, the Opposition’s newly formed I.N.D.I.A bloc continued upping the ante against the Government over the strife-torn northeastern State, The Indian Tribal reports

Fifty-six years after the demand was first raised, decks have been finally cleared for granting Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the Hattee community in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh, The Indian Tribal reports

Amid the impasse over Manipur, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday (July 26) admitted a no-confidence motion moved by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi against the Narendra Modi government and said the time of the debate will be set and informed to the House, The Indian Tribal reports

Notwithstanding the unabated violence in the northeastern State, the two sides remain engaged in a blame-game over the debate modalities resulting in Parliament proceedings being paralysed for the third day in a row and suspension of the Parliamentarian, against which the Opposition staged a sit-in, The Indian Tribal [...]

A group of ex-insurgents of Mizoram has asked the Meitei community there to leave the State. While the Manipur Government said it is willing to evacuate them in chartered flights, many Meiteis took the Imphal flight or drove down in their own vehicles to Assam, The Indian Tribal [...]

The 44th Governing Body Meeting of the ATLC, comprising eminent members of multiple indigenous communities, convened on 17th July to approve the proposal of ‘Reimagining ATLC’’. Shivangi Behera and Anushree Rai explain its importance and relevance

In the second such incident, angry locals on Friday set on fire the house of another accused involved in stripping two women naked and parading and molesting them, and who has been absconding. A mob had earlier torched the house of the main accused hours after the police [...]