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The event was named Mahul Phul to celebrate its deep-rooted association with tribal life, culture and tradition, report Bananee Rout & Srijita Chakrabarti

The tribal dominated villages of Khunti, Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda’s parliamentary constituency, besides Gumla in Jharkhand have emerged as the biggest beneficiary of the Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojana. President Droupadi Murmu will be visiting Khunti on May 26, reports SUDHIR KUMAR MISHRA

Tribals hold the key to power as India has Assembly elections in 13 States in the next year and a half leading to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Put together, 404 Assembly seats reserved for STs besides the 47 ST Lok Sabha seats will be up for grabs, [...]

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

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 [...]

President Droupadi Murmu will on November 15 visit Ulihatu village in Khunti district of Jharkhand where Bhagwan Birsa Munda was born on the day and pay her floral tributes. The Indian Tribal reports

Yet again, a politician has made a distasteful and disrespectful comment against President Droupadi Murmu. It were Congress leaders earlier, it is a Trinamool Congress member, also a State Minister, now. The BJP has sought his arrest and launched a statewide protest in West Bengal. The Indian Tribal [...]

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s confrontation with the Centre looks set to intensify in the coming days after he chose not to appear before the ED on Thursday for questioning, dared the agency to arrest him and went about his pre-planned programmes as usual. The Indian Tribal reports

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Ayush and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to collaborate in the Ayush sector on Ayurveda Day, also celebrated as Dhanwanatari Jayanti, on Sunday (October 23). The Indian Tribal reports

Ahead of the year-end Assembly elections, the BJP has not hidden its agenda of eyeing the tribal vote as it launched the Adivasi Gaurav Yatra in Gujarat and named it after the iconic tribal freedom fighter from Jharkhand, Birsa Munda, Mayuri Dave reports