Community leaders said the constituency has around 3,500 SC voters Mapusa: Members of Pernem’s Scheduled Caste (SC) community expressed frustration over the lack of local representation in the reserved constituency for decades and called for unity to ensure a local candidate wins the 2027 Assembly election.Speaking at a convention in Pernem on Sunday, leaders said…
Margao: The dhangar community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status is snowballing into a statewide movement, with the community drumming up support from across Goa ahead of its Aug 15 deadline for govt to act on the over two-decade-long demand.Publicised as a mega event, a dhangar convention has been organised in Bicholim on Saturday ….
5 min readMumbaiJul 19, 2026 04:20 AM IST The Maharashtra government has constituted a 27-member committee to examine whether Scheduled Tribe (ST) members who convert to another religion should continue to receive reservation and other government benefits, reopening a politically and constitutionally sensitive issue that has long been raised by RSS-affiliated organisations and sections of the…
Dibrugarh: Members of the All Adivasi Students’ Association of Assam (AASAA) took out a procession in Dibrugarh on Monday to the district commissioner’s office to press for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Adivasi community, a wage hike for tea garden workers and land rights for those living in gardens and rural areas.The procession moved…
Margao: A delegation of the Gouly-Dhangar community, led by former deputy chief minister Chandrakant Kavlekar, met chief minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday, urging him to expedite the community’s inclusion in Goa’s Scheduled Tribes (ST) list and resolve the long-pending demand within two months.The meeting comes in the wake of the Union ministry of tribal affairs…
Protesters were seen burning tyres at several locations in both districts and raising slogans against the govt Dibrugarh: Even as CM Himanta Biswa Sarma expanded his cabinet with the swearing-in of 12 new ministers in Guwahati on Friday, Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts witnessed widespread protests as organisations representing the Moran and Motok communities enforced a…
