As the JMM-led INDIA bloc and the BJP gear up for the next showdown in the Assembly polls slated later this year, both sides have started espousing the tribal cause with more vigour. For now, it’s advantage JMM if the results of ST seats in the last elections [...]

The Jharkhand High Court granted bail to Hemant in an alleged money laundering case linked to a land scam, two weeks after reserving its order on June 13 on his bail plea. The Indian Tribal reports

Champai Soren proposed the setting up of a tribal regiment, like the Jat, Punjab, Sikh and Madras Regiments during his meeting with the GOC-in-C of the Eastern Command, Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

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 [...]

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