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Thursday, December 18, 2025
TopicScheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act

Topic: Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act

Eight states tell Supreme Court they wrongly rejected claims of tribals over forest land

Rajasthan, Tripura, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Bengal, Assam & Maharashtra have filed affidavits, admitting their fault in rejecting claims on forest land.

Supreme Court stays its order to evict 11.8 lakh illegal forest dwellers

The bench also directed state govts to file an affidavit giving details about the process.

Most of the 20 lakh forest dwellers facing eviction don’t know why they’re being ousted

The Supreme Court has ordered that the tribals and forest dwellers whose claims to forest land have been rejected should be evicted by July.

On Camera

Opposition must debate utility, provisions of VB-GRAMG. Look beyond the name

Opposition parties are fixated on the argument that the government has deliberately removed MK Gandhi’s name from the Act. The real provisions in the Bill are barely being discussed.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.