Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...
On January 31, when the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) arrested former Jharkhand chief minister (CM) Hemant Soren—after a brief period of the alleged rumour that he has gone ‘missing’—political ...
On February 4, while addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Vijay Sankalp Rally in Deoghar, Jharkhand, Union Home Minister Amit Shah accused the state chief minister Hemant Soren of “turning a ...
As G.N. Devy, the editor of Being Adivasi with the late Abhay Xaxa, shares in his introduction: ‘I would like to hope that it is received not just as a publication or academic exercise but as a ...
On the occasion of Bhumkal Diwas on February 10, a march organised by young protestors in Silger was blocked by the police. | Sakhi On February 9, the eve of Bhumkal Diwas, Chhattisgarh chief minister ...
The Bangladesh Adivasi Forum has put forward 12 demands, including constitutional recognition for Adivasi communities, and the arrest of those responsible for recent attacks on Adivasi students and ...
The Jharkhand High Court last week ordered a fresh investigation into the killing of a 24-year-old Adivasi man by the police in an alleged “fake encounter” in Latehar district in 2021, reported Bar ...
Dr. Prashant Prabhakar Deshpande has post-graduated in Economics with a Gold Medal in 1976 and was awarded a Ph.D in Social Sciences from Nagpur University in 2007. The Union cabinet, presided over by ...
Achieving yet another milestone in efforts to establish “permanent peace” in Assam by inking settlements with various armed insurgent outfits active in the state, the Centre, Assam government and ...
The government is set to issue an ordinance to amend Schedule 1 of the House of Representatives Member Election Act.
Some 1,000 tribals from across India including Christians gathered in the national capital to demand recognition of their religion in the 2021 census. They sang, danced and displayed placards saying ...