The JMM’s first family sought to put up a united face with Hemant’s younger brother, Basant, accompanying her ‘bhabhi’ for the filing of nomination. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

The Kondh tribals, both young and old, worship their presiding deity during Chaitra with music, dancing and feasting. Niroj Ranjan Misra seeks to know more about the festival

The Kurmis or Kudmis have been asking for Scheduled Tribe status and inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. They claim that they were classified as a “notified tribe” during the British Raj. S. Shrobana reports. PART-2

With their rail and road blockades not yielding the desired result, the Adivasi Kurmi Samaj has decided to field its candidates in Purulia, Bankura, Midnapore and Jhargram to ruin the party of BJP and TMC. S. Shrobana digs deep into the issue in a 2-part series.  PART-1

Even their deaths due to starvation failed to force successive Governments to effectively come to the rescue of this primitive tribe group. In a two-part series, S. Shrobana takes a closer look at the community, scattered in Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore PART-1

The Jharkhand Chief Minister asked the talented students to go ahead with their studies without bothering about the financial constraints. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

Born to a labourer couple, poverty and failures did not deter this Baripada tribal from pursuing his zeal for art. Niroj Ranjan Misra tells us how the untiring efforts are now bearing fruits for the artist from Odisha

The switchover of Geeta, a Ho tribal and MP from Chaibasa ST seat, is also seen in the backdrop of changed power equations in Kolhan politics after Chief Minister Champai Soren inducted JMM’s Ho MLA from the region Deepak Birua as Minister. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

Sandesh stands for a famous Bengali sweetmeat. Ironically, there is nothing sweet about Sandeshkhali. Instead, women of the island, mostly tribals, finally gathered courage to send out a sandesh (message) to the powers that be about their allegedly hellish experiences at the hands of a politically-protected local strongman [...]

Under the scheme a primary collector (tribal) will be able to sell the Minor Forest Produce at Minimum Support Price collected at the procurement centres by Tribal Development Cooperative Corporation of Odisha Ltd (TDCCOL). The Indian Tribal reports