Scheduled Tribes

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has not just set the tone for next year’s Lok Sabha polls but also led the Opposition, including minority community leaders, and tribal organisations getting worked up, The Indian Tribal reports

The Army has shared a video on Twitter highlighting incidents of women allegedly blocking and interfering in its operations against militants and rioters in the troubled northeastern State, The Indian Tribal reports

Amid Government’s assertions that all efforts are on to restore peace violence continues unabated in the northeastern State with the latest instance being a mob torching another State Minister’s residence, The Indian Tribal reports

While acknowledging the traditional healers as Tribal Health Ambassadors, the ICMR-NIRTH study aims at encouraging them to act as a channel for timely referral of cases needing immediate medical attention to Government health centres, The Indian Tribal reportsNew DelhiThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National [...]

The Naveen Patnaik government on Wednesday (June 21) passed a Cabinet resolution to include Saora language in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India. Anushree Rai details what it entails for the 7-lakh-strong community

This International Yoga Day, on Wednesday (June 21), will see the craftsmanship of India’s tribal artisans on 34,000 yoga mats — from Odisha’s Sabai Grass to Bengal’s Madhurkathi — which TRIFED procured and supplied to the Ministry of Ayush, 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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to launch a mission to eliminate Sickle Cell Anaemia by 2047 from Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh on June 27. On World Sickle Cell Day (June 19), Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda details his Ministry’s action plan to tackle the menace that [...]

A Mass Communication teacher is ready with a first-of-its-kind ethnographic film on the Bathudi tribe, whose members claim themselves to be descendants of Balram and Subhadra (siblings of Lord Krishna). Options of its release on an OTT platform too are being explored, Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

The northeastern State doesn’t seem to be heading towards normalcy any time soon. After a State Minister’s residence, a frenzied mob defied curfew restrictions and torched the house of MoS External Affairs right in the heart of Manipur’s capital, The Indian Tribal reports