Adivasis

Editor’s Note: In debate over Uniform Civil Code or on eating habits of Indians, the debate in north-Indian dominated debate often ignores the rich diversity of our country and its people. An Assamese ‘caste Hindu’ who has a penchant for non-vegetarian items, here writes how he not only loves beef, but has tried even dog meat with his Naga friends as well as snake. By Joydeep Hazarika,

By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : A 1,800 km transmission line from Assam to Agra is likely to provide some relief to electricity-starved north India this...

Semiliguda/Nabrangpur (Odisha) : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday said a mafia was running the state government and looting the mineral wealth of Odisha. "The...

Shillong : Former Lok Sabha speaker Purno A. Sangma Sunday praised the Congress legislators in Meghalaya for demanding the removal of Chief Minister Mukul...

By IANS, Agartala : Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chaudhury Wednesday presented a Rs.124.04 billion tax-free budget with a deficit of Rs.1.58 billion for the 2014-15...

New Delhi : India's northeastern states saw a surge of foreign tourists in 2013 registering a growth of 27.9 percent over 2012, an official...

Thiruvananthapuram : Reports about the death of infants in the Attapadi tribal settlements in Palakkad district are exaggerated and far from the truth, Rural...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: One protestor of peasants’ body Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) died after receiving 90 per cent burn injuries following his act of self-immolation in demand of land rights in front of Assam secretariat on Monday.

TCN News जबलपुर: कल तारीख 31 मई 2015 को चुटका परमाणु बिजली परियोजना के खिलाफ चुटका में हुई स्थानीय लोगों की विरोध सभा में...

Noida : People from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will perform as well as others if they are given the opportunity, Prime Minister...

Guwahati : People living near the Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district are fleeing their homes after the death of a person and injuries to...

By IANS, Shillong : A Meghalaya government official had a close shave Monday when Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants fired at his vehicle in...

New Delhi : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday announced a new 24X7 television channel for the northeast region. "A new channel named 'Arun Prabha', which...

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday greeted Nagaland on its statehood day. "On Nagaland's Statehood Day, I convey my greetings to the people...

By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala/Aizawl : The Modi government has taken the initiative to resolve the long pending boundary disputes between the northeastern states, officials said. "Survey...

Agartala : A 55-year-old tribal woman was killed by her neighbours in Tripura for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said here on Tuesday. Kanyapati Debbarma, a...

Guwahati : Authorities in Assam had information that Bodo militants would go on rampage but could not mobilise forces due to lack of time,...

Imphal : Days after the Supreme Court held that the army or police cannot use excessive force under the provisions of AFSPA or the...

Aizawl : Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, his cabinet colleagues, legislators and officials on Sunday paid their last respects to the three Mizoram policemen...

Guwahati : Twelve Bodo militants were Sunday arrested from three places in Assam along the international border with Bhutan, a day after an insurgent...

“NGOs and political parties claiming to work in the interest of SCs and STs must conduct programmes imparting awareness about the amendments made in...

Shillong: In a goof-up, the first list of Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha polls has the name of Meghalaya Sports Minister Zenith Sangma...

New Delhi : Pottery, textiles and spiritual exercises prevalent in India's northeast closely resemble that of the equally forested interior belts of Latin America,...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Guwahati: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has slammed a criminal defamation case against a private news channel which had recently broadcast news about party’s alleged involvement with Jehadi elements.

Agartala : The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education is very low in the northeast region and it can be improved by setting...

By TCN News, Gulbarga (Karnataka): The lives of many Indians have been ruined and their youth snatched away in the name of terrorism even as Muslims, Tribals and Dalits are mostly implicated in false cases due to prejudiced police, politics, media, prosecution and the society in general, Ajit Sahi, well known political analyst and a journalist, said.

Govt urged to pass SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill 2014 in the current session By TCN News, New Delhi: Urging the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep his pre-poll promise to the SC/ST communities, the National Coalition for Strengthening SCs & STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (NCSPA) has demanded the government to pass the pending Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill 2014 in the current session of the Parliament.

Agartala : Tripura has kept its top position for the fifth consecutive year for offering 66 person-days so far in the current fiscal in...

Shillong : Five employees of a hotel here in the Meghalaya capital were arrested Tuesday on charges of attempting to rape a woman from...

By Sujit Chakraborty, Aizawl : Nearly 30 years after Mizoram embraced peace, there are signs that terrorism may be raising its "disturbing" head in the...

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net, Thiruvananthapuram: On Wednesday, when Kerala observed the World Human Rights Day with rallies, seminars and talks, a vulnerable section – adivasis, hailing from various tribal settlement – were left out of celebrations.

Bengaluru : Thousands of people paid tributes to martyred National Security Guard (NSG) commando Lieutenant Colonel Niranjan E.K. on Monday at his residence in...

New Delhi : India has clearly told China that Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir "are integral and inalienable parts of India", Defence Minister...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: North Eastern Universities should take lead to start courses like Disaster Management in order to sort out the problems of floods and earthquakes and to deal effectively with such Natural Disasters this is what felt by Prof Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia in Guwahati on Saturday.

Srinagar : Mehbooba Mufti, opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Friday accused the ruling National Conference (NC) of the murder of a PDP village...

By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala : The mountainous northeastern region, which comprises eight states, occupies eight percent of India's land area and is home to four...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली: बाबरी मस्जिद विध्वंस की घटना को 24 वर्ष बीत गए हैं लेकिन दिल्ली में आज भी 6 दिसम्बर का...

By TCN news, Guwahati: Two leading social organisations of Assam, Ajmal Foundation and Markazul Ma’arif, extended a donation of Rs 10 lakh to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) for assistance to worst affected people in Nepal on account of the recent earthquake that devastated the country.

Guwahati : Nine people were arrested Wednesday in Assam's Sivasagar district for torturing a woman and branding her a 'witch', police said. The incident took...

By Priyanka New Delhi : Sunil Jaglan, a Haryana village headman whose online drive for the girl child went viral on Twitter after...

Guwahati : If BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi mesmerised people during his three-hour presence in Assam earlier this month, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi...

By IANS, Shillong: A low intensity earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale shook India's northeastern states Sunday night, officials said. The quake occurred around 10.35...

Assam CM submits memorandum seeking more central assistance. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: In view of the large scale devastation due to unprecedented floods in Assam, the Centre on Wednesday announced to release Rs 674 crore for Assam’s State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for 2014-15.

SIO team meets Nagaland Dy Resident Commissioner at Kolkata By TCN News, New Delhi: A delegation of the West Bengal unit of Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) met Nagaland deputy Resident Commissioner here on the ongoing burning issue of brutal lynching to death in Dimapur a person suspected by Nagas to have raped a Naga girl.

By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: President of India Pranab Mukherjee attended the 14th Convocation of Manipur University (MU) on April 29, 2014...

New Delhi : An NGO working for child rights Wednesday urged the government to provide protection to about 800 children in Assam affected by...

Ranchi : The third working day of Jharkhand Assembly's winter session was also a wash out due to disruptions over the BJP government's move...

New Delhi/Shillong : The central and Meghalaya governments Wednesday signed a peace agreement with the two factions of the A'chik National Volunteers Council (ANVC),...

By A Ghyasuddin, TwoCircles.net, Karimganj (Assam): An eerie silence prevailed in Assam’s Bosla village in Karimganj district. The ill-fated family members of Syed Sarifuddin Khan who was lynched in Dimapur just a week ago, seem to seek help from any visitors ever since the horrific incident that rocked the country to their home.

Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Friday sought a special package of Rs.1,000 crore from the Centre to begin rehabilitation work in the...

Aizawl : President Pranab Mukherjee arrived here on Thursday afternoon on a two-day tour to the northeastern state of Mizoram. He will be chief...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Assessment of higher education through the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, vacant staff positions across universities and growing influence of the IT in education sector were some of the scores of several key issues discussed at the national seminar on ‘Changing Scenario in Academic Performance & Audit’ organized during the second North East Teachers Congress (NETC).

Agra : The BJP Wednesday named Prem Singh Shakya as its candidate for the Lok Sabha bye-election for the Mainpuri seat which was vacated...

New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Assam and Arunachal Pradesh Nov 20-21, it was announced Wednesday. On Thursday, the president will attend the...

Shillong : There is no proposal to ban cow slaughter in the eight northeastern states, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said on Wednesday. However, the...

Guwahati : Insurgent outfit ULFA had planned to carry out serial blasts and other subversive activities here ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled...

Kolkata : India's northeast was perceived as a 'conflict zone' due to the negative media coverage, Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said Monday, and...

Kohima : Condemning the killing of a 29-year-old Manipuri man in Delhi, Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang Tuesday urged the personal intervention of Home...

Guwahati : Sixty-seven people have been killed in the floods in Assam's Brahmaputra Valley even as Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of State...

Shillong : Concerned over a knowledge gap about the Northeast over decades that has created stereotypes and increased misunderstandings, historians and scholars met here...

Imphal : Irom Sharmila, the 'Iron Lady of Manipur who is contesting an election to the state assembly in January, has kicked off her...

Kohima : Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls from the lone parliamentary constituency in the...

By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: The All Manipur Muslim Girl Students’ Union (AMMGSU) observed its seventh foundation day on August 30, 2014 at Kuki Inn, Imphal.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: A 15-member delegation representing three different organisations viz Samajwadi Party Assam, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushwarat, and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind met the Governor of Assam Janaki Ballabh Pattanayak at the Raj Bhawan in Guwahati on Sunday to submit separate memorandums and apprise him about the ground realities of the prevailing situation in the BTAD area. The Governor gave the delegation a very patient hearing and spent more than an hour sharing viewpoints with them.

By Chinmaya Dehury Bhubaneswar : An integral part of tribal culture, 700 sacred groves in Odisha -- out of 2,100 identified by the state government...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the self-immolation of a Guwahati city dweller demanding land-settlement and urged the authority to initiate due consultations to resolve the issue amicably.

By Dr Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Various government agencies and private bodies in Manipur observed the National Education Day, which commemorates the birth anniversary of the great freedom fighter, eminent educationist and India’s first Union Minister of Education Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday lodged a complaint with Election Commission against Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo, of the...

Agartala : Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to restore the funds cut from MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural...

Agartala : The first ever nine-month-long cultural extravaganza, the "Discover North East Yatra" ended here on Wednesday, having created a cultural bonding among the...

By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : Transport bottlenecks have forced India's northeastern states to procure much needed rice from neighbouring Myanmar and Bangladesh. The Indian government has...

Guwahati : India should focus on the export potential of the northeastern region to neighbouring countries to free it from poverty and backwardness, speakers...

By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : Cutting across political lines, chief ministers of eight northeastern states, ruled by Congress, Left and regional parties, have urged Prime...

By Akash Poyam for Adivasi Resurgence Up until now, Japanese Encephelitis (JE) has caused more than 120 deaths (Official numbers, real deaths could be...

Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying 'achche din' (good days) have come only...

Agartala : Intellectuals, singers, writers and political activists staged a protest here on Sunday to denounce the killing of a Bangladeshi-American blog-writer in Dhaka...

New Delhi : The union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday gave its approval for implementing a Comprehensive Telecom Development Plan for...

Agartala : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an independent international medical humanitarian organisation, has extended its help to control the outbreak of malaria in Tripura,...

Guwahati : The highly decomposed body of a maid was on Thursday recovered from the servants' quarter of an army Colonel in Assam's Jorhat...

Guwahati : Three top Bodo militants, who were arrested from Nagaland capital Kohima, were Saturday produced in a court which sent them to four-day...

Kolkata : Senior Congress leader and former Assam minister Anjan Dutta was Monday grilled by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore-rupee Saradha scam. Dutta,...

New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee Monday said the government will ensure that the Kashmiri Pandits return to the Valley with full “dignity” and...

आसिफ इकबाल मुस्लिम जमातों और नेताओं की ओर से यह बात बहुत पहले से कही जाती रही है कि आतंकवाद के नाम पर मुसलमानों की...

New Delhi : The central government's proposal to grant Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to six advanced and populous communities in Assam will destroy...

Guwahati : One person was killed and three others were injured Wednesday morning in a bomb blast, triggered by militants suspected to be from...

Guwahati : There was panic in the Uriamghat area in Assam's Golaghat district near the state's border with Nagaland Thursday when gunmen allegedly from...

New Delhi : A 34-year-old South African has been arrested on charges of raping a woman from Nagaland on the pretext of marriage, police...

Shillong : Announcing levy of export fee on forest products in Meghalaya, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Wednesday presented a Rs.527 crore deficit budget for...

Diphu (Assam) : Several people, including policemen, were injured in Assam on Friday when a group of people clashed with security forces while protesting...

Guwahati : The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Wednesday issued notice to the commissioner and secretary of the state home department over allegations...

Although the number of actual clearances given on paper for infrastructure projects are not much different compared to the UPA rule, the NDA rule...

Home Minister Rajnath Singh to visit locations By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The situation in Assam remained tense on Wednesday with the recovery of more bodies of Assam villagers, who were massacred by the Bodo militants opened indiscriminate fire targeting adivasi people.

Agartala : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday conferred an award on Tripura's Mandwai block where every tribal family has a bank account. Mandwai block's...

By TCN News Bangalore: Justice Mr. M. Chockalingam (Judicial Member) and Prof. Dr. R. Nagendran (Expert Member) constituting the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone Bench),...

Guwahati : A major students' organisation in Assam Tuesday launched a state-wide protest opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement to go ahead with the...

Aizawl : Three armed Mizoram policemen were gunned down and two others shot at when the Manipur-based militant outfit Hmar People's Convention-Democracy (HPC-D) ambushed...

Agartala : A police sub-inspector, tasked with providing security to Tripura BJP leaders, was suspended for negligence of duty after they were allegedly assaulted...

Guwahati : Two people were killed Wednesday when police fired at protestors in Assam near the border with Nagaland, leading to curfew in Golaghat...

Aizawl : India and Myanmar would soon start formal border trade through the northeastern state of Mizoram, a senior state government official said here...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The Governments of Assam and Nagaland mutually agreed to resolve the border row amicably and to form a joint mechanism to work out a solution to the problem.

Agartala : Police have arrested a man on the charges of attempting to bury his nine-year-old daughter alive in Tripura, an official said here...

New Delhi : The National Commission of Backward Classes has written to the social justice ministry to bring a bill for providing 27 percent...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Even as news reports created sensation about the alleged involvement of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) with Islamic fundamentalist across the region, the AIUDF on Friday asked the Union Home Minister for a proper investigation.

By Ninglun Hanghal, IANS, Last week, Delhi witnessed a large turnout of youth from northeastern India - comprising eight states - to protest against the...

By TwoCircles.net staff Reporter, Guwahati: Even as the protests are going on across Assam against the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) for its alleged involvement with Islamic fundamentalist, the party is looking for an investigation from the union home ministry.

By IANS, Srinagar : Shabir Ahmad Khan, a former minister accused by a woman doctor of sexual harassment, arrived in Srinagar Thursday to present himself...

Agartala/Aizawl : Three earthquakes, one of moderate intensity, hit India's northeastern region Thursday night and Friday, an official said. There are no reports of...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Scholars, intellectuals and activists from different parts of the country attending an anti-terrorism convention here came down heavily on attempts by Hindu fundamentalist to malign Muslims in the name of terrorism in India, Assam in particular.

New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said his former fellow party leader Jayanthi Natarajan was propped up against him after he...

Kohima: Clear weather encouraged enthusiastic voters in Nagaland's lone Lok Sabha constituency on Wednesday, with more than 60 percent of the ballots cast till...

By IANS, Jammu : As Jammu and Kashmir Police failed to arrest former minister Shabir Ahmad Khan before midnight Sunday, they would now have to take Speaker Mubarak Gul's permission Monday for his arrest.

By IANS, Shillong : The World Bank Wednesday launched its $1 million 2014 India Development Marketplace for implementing innovative service delivery in Meghalaya, Mizoram and...

By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Addressing a gathering Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the youth of Manipur has the potential to inspire the whole nation with their excellence in sports so they should be rescued from the menace of drugs. Referring to the issue of unemployment in the North-Eastern states, he expressed that the whole North-Eastern region has the prospects to emerge as a hub of call centres.

By Jatindra Dash, Bhubaneswar : He is hailed as a "god" by children of poor tribals of Odisha, a man who sought to overcome the...

By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: He is very popular and widely respected in Bangladesh. A household name in the world of Baul sangeet, Maqsoodul Haque – whose roots are from Assam – has also been able to leave a mark in this part of India with his mesmerizing performances.

Shillong: An estimated 66 percent of voters Wednesday cast their ballots for the two Lok Sabha seats in Meghalaya as people defied a shutdown...

New Delhi : Faggan Singh Kulaste, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Mandla (Scheduled Tribes) reserved constituency in Madhya Pradesh, belongs to the class...