Scheduled Tribes

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah played the tribal card to the hilt as he addressed a Vikas Mahasankalp Rally in Jharkhand’s tribal-dominated Chaibasa, The Indian Tribal reports

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the 20,000-capacity Birsa Munda International Stadium in Rourkela to host the 2023 Hockey World Cup. He also announced an award of Rs 1 crore for each player if Team India wins the tournament, The Indian Tribal reports

The Union Environment Ministry and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes both continue to hold on to their respective contentions over the FCR 2022 that “does away with the requirement of seeking prior consent of the rights-holders for diversion of forest land”. The Indian Tribal reports

Teachers from 54 Eklavya Model Residential Schools of six States are attending a two-day face-to-face capacity building workshop for which the National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS) has collaborated with Amazon, reports The Indian Tribal

The lower house on Wednesday passed a Bill to include several communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Chhattisgarh even as Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda launched a strong attack on the Congress accusing it of trying to gain political mileage out of the issues of [...]

The BJP-led NDA Government will use the International Millet Year (IMY), 2023, India’s G-20 presidency and National Education Policy to promote the tribal cause. The Indian Tribal reports

The first day of the Jharkhand Assembly's winter session on Monday had a stormy start as the opposition BJP raised the horrific murder of a 22-year-old primitive tribe woman, who was chopped into a dozen pieces allegedly by her husband, and demanded immediate steps to check such heinous [...]

A probe by the police after locals noticed a dog eating what seemed like human remains in Sahibganj district, and informed them, has led to the revelation of a chilling murder with an eerie similarity to Delhi’s Shraddha Walkar case. The Indian Tribal reports

The Parliament on Wednesday passed a legislation seeking to include the Gond community in the Scheduled Tribes category in four districts of Uttar Pradesh, The Indian Tribal reports

As Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda stresses on ‘thinking big’ to extract the maximum benefit from India’s G-20 presidency for tribal welfare, his Lok Sabha constituency, Khunti, is witnessing a slew of unique initiatives, Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports