Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has revised Development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) with an effect from 1 April, 2015. The scheme aims for the comprehensive socio-economic...
Every year 7th August will be celebrated as National Handloom Day. It was announced by Union Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar in both the Houses of Parliament. Observance...
Delhi Government has notified Witness Protection Scheme 2015, a policy regarding protection of witnesses with provisions for a protection fund. With this, Delhi becomes the first state/union territory...
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon issue 10 rupee denomination coins to commemorate International Yoga Day which is being observed every year on 21 June. Features of...
Cyclone Komen made landfall in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The cyclone has caused heavy rains that inundated vast areas of the coastal towns of Bangladesh, West Bengal and Odisha....
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has cancelled licence of Sahara asset Management Company (AMC). The license will stand cancelled after sixty days from the date of...
1. Which of the following cities has been named as the World Book Capital for 2017? [A]Conakry [B]Paris [C]Brussels [D]Frankfurt Answer: ConakryNotes: Conakry, the capital of the Republic...
The Hur Movement was an anti-colonial tribal and socio-religious resistance led by the Sufi brotherhood of Sindh, known as the Hurs, against British colonial rule. Originating in the...
The tribal revolts in North-East India during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represented a fierce indigenous resistance against the expansion of British colonial authority, economic encroachment, and...
Alluri Sitarama Raju emerged as a central figure of indigenous armed resistance in the Eastern Ghats during the early 1920s. Born on July 4, 1897, in Pandrangi village...
The Rampa Rebellion, also known as the Manyam Rebellion, was an armed tribal uprising that took place in the Godavari agency tracts of the Madras Presidency between August...
The Tana Bhagat Movement was an agrarian, socio-religious, and non-violent tribal uprising that originated among the Oraon tribe of the Chotanagpur plateau (modern-day Jharkhand) in 1914. Spearheaded by...
