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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 [...]

Surrounded by crocodiles-infested waters and forests full of man-eating tigers, they have nowhere to go. To them, Netas of Kolkata are as invisible as the God of the heavens. S. Shrobana hears them out. PART-2

Elections come and elections go but the condition of the ‘Tiger widows’ of Bidhoba Para — Widows’ Village — in West Bengal continues to remain unchanged. S. Shrobona visits one such village

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

In a delayed move, JMM patriarch Shibu Soren acted against his rebellious eldest daughter-in-law and another rebel MLA for going against the party and party lines. Meanwhile, former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s fate continues to hang in the balance in the Supreme Court. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

The beleaguered JMM-led alliance government in Jharkhand received yet another major jolt as the Enforcement Directorate arrested the senior Congress leader and Minister in a money laundering case even as former Chief Minister Hemant Soren languishes behind the bars. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports