Addressing the Bastar Pandum programme in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada, Shah said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, starting next year, artists from every tribal district of the country will be included in the Bastar Pandum.
Protests against the road closures in Kurram district are growing, with the sit-in in Parachinar now entered in its sixth day. Road blockages across the tribal district, including in Parachinar, are still ongoing.
The discussion on the deteriorating law and order situation was initiated by Arbab Usman Khan, an opposition MPA from the Awami National Party, who claimed that there had been a significant surge in terrorism-related incidents in the tribal districts.
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday approved eight new big railway projects that will cover aspirational and tribal districts.
Addressing a public rally in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh's tribal-dominated Jhabua district, PM Modi also promised to provide free education to girls from KG to their post-graduation and to open medical colleges in tribal districts once the BJP government is formed in the state.
Most of the Afghan refugees returning to Afghanistan suffer from stress and mental trauma, according to doctors at the health camp set up by the government in Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber tribal district, Dawn reported.
Three more persons were killed and 12 others injured as incidents of firing continued for the fifth day on Saturday at different places in the Kurram tribal district, Pakistan-based Dawn reported.
The scenic heights of Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh were shrouded in white after the dostrict, along with neighbouring Kullu, received snowfall ahead of the approaching winter.
Addressing the media in Shimla, Ravi Thakur said, "During the former BJP government, Town and Country Planning (TCP) rules were implemented in six panchayats of the tribal district of Lahaul Spiti, but the local public are against it."
A total of seven people have died in clashes between two tribes over a piece of land. The clashes occurred in different areas of Pakistan's Kurram tribal district, Dawn reported.
Four terrorists were killed and three more were left injured during an operation by the Pakistan military in the tribal districts of Bajaur and Khyber.