Under pressure from an Islamist group, the National Textbook Commission removed an image that referred to indigenous groups and symbolised the unity and diversity of the country. The accusation: ‘It ...

Indigenous students and their supporters held a demonstration at Dhaka University's Raju Memorial Sculpture yesterday, calling for the reinstatement of the word "indigenous" (adivasi in Bangla) in ...

Some 700 ethnic minority people marched through a street in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sept. 3 asking the government to make legal provisions to save their land and to protect their lives and ...

Students protesting against the removal of images featuring the word “adivasi” – a collective term for a number of ethnic minority groups in Bangladesh – from textbooks have been attacked by a group ...

The Chattogram Hill Tracts Commission has condemned the attack on indigenous students protesting the removal of images featuring the word “Adivasi” – a collective term for a number of ethnic minority ...

A mass gathering arranged by Bangladesh Adivasi Forum on Friday demanded giving constitutional recognition to indigenous peoples, the swift arrest and prosecution of those involved in the brutal ...

Hundreds of Indigenous students in Bangladesh took to the streets of the capital Dhaka on Jan. 15, to protest against the education department removing an illustration from school textbooks that ...

People from the indigenous communities in Dinajpur demonstrated today, demanding justice for protesters who were attacked in Dhaka on January 15. The demo in Dhaka was to protest against the removal ...

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has said it has “no information to furnish” about undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants in Jharkhand, The Telegraph reported on Friday. “Data of such illegal ...

RANCHI: Alleging that the JMM-led alliance government has turned a blind eye to the indiscriminate looting of tribal lands, former Chief Miniter Champai Soren has planned the launch of a state-wide ...

Analyses of whole-genome sequence data of urban Sinhalese and two indigenous Adivasi clans in Sri Lanka, which live in geographically separated regions in the country, have shed light on the migratory ...