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Elected for the sixth time as the MP from Sundargarh, Oram has for the third time been entrusted with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, crucial to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tribal outreach. Modi 3.0 has only one Minister of State instead of two like last time around. M. [...]

In the process of bagging all the 29 Lok Sabha seats in the State, the BJP won all the 6 ST reserved seats. The spectacular performance comes just months after its resounding victory in the Assembly polls. Vijay Singh Thakur reports

Tribals, who had helped the BJP wrest power from the Congress in late 2023, had no change of heart in the Lok Sabha polls also. They ensured the BJP won all the four Scheduled Tribe (ST) reserved parliamentary constituency seats of the State. Vijay Singh Thakur reports

The State played its part in denting the BJP’s prospects of achieving the majority mark on its own. Tribal sentiments against the arrest of former CM Hemant Soren seem to have played a role in I.N.D.I.A allies JMM and Congress vanquishing the BJP on all the five ST [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the electorate for giving the NDA a “historical” third consecutive term but among others the BJP’s below-par performance, going by its own targets, also owed to major reverses in States like Jharkhand, where even Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda lost. M. Madhusudan reports [...]

Campaigning in tribal-dominated Dumka for the last phase of Lok Sabha polls on June 1, the Prime Minister asserted that the notorious "love jehad" first started in Jharkhand and targeted the INDIA bloc for corruption. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

The 72-year-old traditional medicine practitioner, who attended school just for a day, has expressed his intention of returning the coveted award after a threat to his life from the Naxalites. The outlaws had only 6 months back brutally hacked his nephew. Vijay Singh Thakur explains the entire issue

A 30-year-old man, a labourer, used the app to pose as a woman college professor to lure the victims by offering them scholarships and then raping them. It showcases how technological advancements can be used even by the most unsuspected of criminals to commit such heinous crimes. The [...]

The apex court took strong exception to the non-disclosure of certain facts. Effectively, it means, Hemant will continue to remain in custody and will not be able to campaign in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections like the Delhi Chief Minister. The Indian Tribal reports

Caught between tribal emotions and Kurmi sentiments, all the political parties — from the Left to the BJP to the Trinamool Congress —are finding themselves in a tight corner in the ongoing elections in this part of Jangalmahal in West Bengal. S. Shrobana reports