The JMM has entered Assam’s electoral fray with candidates on 21 seats, targeting tea tribes and indigenous communities. The Indian Tribal deep dives into JMM’s strengths and weaknesses to find out that its immediate goal is as much about expansion and establishing relevance as it is about winning [...]

The Bharatiya Janata Party currently has the highest stake, holding 13 ST seats across Assam and West Bengal, while the Trinamool Congress holds 9 ST seats, mainly in West Bengal. The Indian Tribal reports

Nearly 9,000 dancers presented the mega dance performance in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, some 60 Ambassadors and leading industrialists. The Indian Tribal reports

A group of tribal women hailing from a small village in Assam has taken over the responsibility of ensuring supply of clean drinking water to households and water security, finds out Proyashi Barua

Nature and Hindu mythology have a cardinal influence on the folk heritage of Assam’s tribal communities. No wonder then that the north-eastern State is a folk connoisseur’s paradise, writes Proyashi Barua

Droupadi Murmu on Saturday (April 8) became the third President and the second woman President to undertake such a sortie, The Indian Tribal reports

Seeking a national footprint, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has sought to turn the tables on the Centre and reach out to the tribal community with a motion in the Assembly to recognize Sari and Sarna as separate religions. But has the move clicked with the tribals? [...]

Rail and road traffic was affected in several parts in eastern India as the Adivasi Sengel Abhiyan, headed by former BJP MP Salkhan Murmu, effected a blockade in five States to demand, among others, claim to Parasnath Hills in Giridih district of Jharkhand and implementation of the Sarna [...]

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s noble gesture of transcending borders to install statues of tribal leaders hailing from other Northeastern States in Guwahati is winning him appreciation. The Indian Tribal reports

As the world marked the Indigenous Peoples Day, Proyashi Barua caught up with Dharamsing Teron, Founder-Director of the Centre for Karbi Studies (CKS), Diphu, Assam to find out some of his initiatives towards preserving the ‘vulnerable’ Karbi language