Two women from Pakistan's restive northwest have made history by becoming the first tribal women to file nomination papers for the May 11 parliamentary polls. Forty-year-old Badam Zari filed nomination papers for a National Assembly constituency in the restive Bajaur tribal region on Saturday while Nusrat Begum plans to contest elections from Lower Dir, a tribal district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. ...
03:15 PM, Apr 01, 2013
New Delhi: In Jharkhand, there's a new wave of positivity, especially among girls of the tribal areas. And it's all thanks to the Central Reserve Police Force's (CRPF) new initiative to provide them with a better future. Stuck in a virtual civil war with Naxals on one side and the government forces on the other, the girls had given up all hopes of moving ahead in life. However, they now...
10:08 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: Over four months after her surgery in the US for an undisclosed ailment, a cheerful Sonia Gandhi took everyone by surprise by joining a group of tribal women in their traditional dance in New Delhi on Friday. After addressing a national convention on empowerment of tribal women organised by Mahila Congress, Gandhi came down from the stage to mingle with the tribal women and soon joined them in...
05:35 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced a solatium of Rs 5 lakh for each of the four tribal women, who were allegedly raped by policemen in Villupuram district, and suspended five uniformed men. In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said she had ordered payment of Rs.500,000 each to the four tribal Irula women who complained of rape by policemen of Tirukoilur police station in the district....
04:53 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Chennai: A judicial inquiry is being conducted into the sexual assault charges made by four tribal women against Tamil Nadu policemen in Villupuram district, an official said on Sunday. The Irula tribal women complained against policemen belonging to Tirukoilur police station in Villupuram district, around 150 km from here, said a police official. "The judicial magistrate of Tirukoilur is conducting an inquiry on the complaint," Villupuram Superintendent of Police N....
10:52 AM, Nov 28, 2011
WB government sources say they are close to clinching a deal. ...
11:38 PM, Oct 21, 2009
