Scheduled Tribes

The 73-year-old Paraja tribal agriculturist breathed her last at the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, where she was admitted a couple of days ago. The Indian Tribal reports

The senior CPI(M) Politburo member has written to the Union Tribal Affairs Minister calling for local recruitment instead of the existing centralised process. The Indian Tribal reports

With the Assembly elections just a few months away, the decision to bring back the out-on-bail Hemant Soren at the helm of affairs in Jharkhand has been taken as part of a multi-pronged strategy. The Indian Tribal reports

Played mostly by Santal tribals in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha and in the Kolhan region of Jharkhand, this traditional khela (game) is dying slowly without the support of major sports clubs and patronage of State governments, writes Niroj Ranjan Mishra

Approval has been granted to provide pension under Swami Vivekananda Nishakt Swavalamban Protsahan Yojana to nine persons suffering from the deadly disease. The Indian Tribal reports

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 [...]