Adivasi scholars suggest that at least three factors make Jharkhand different: political consciousness of its Adivasis; memories of the statehood movement; and, traditional relations between the ...

Bhognadih village lies around 400 km from Ranchi. It falls within the Barhait assembly constituency, a longstanding stronghold of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha – Chief Minister Hemant Soren won the ...

The Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while launching the electoral manifesto of the BJP in Jharkhand, said that the party would bring a law to restrict the transfer of land from Adivasis to ‘Bangladeshi ...

Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda said on Saturday that if the BJP win the Jharkhand Assembly Election, no tribal rights will be given to the children of Bangladeshi ...

Nearly three decades after Parliament enacted a law to empower gram sabhas in Adivasi areas, Jharkhand is slowly inching closer to finalising draft rules required to implement the Panchayats ...

Jharkhand is set to vote for 38 seats in the second and final phase of assembly elections on November 20, alongside Maharashtra. In the first phase, held on November 13, the state voted for 43 seats, ...

Ranchi, Jharkhand governor, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, said on Thursday that 'Adivasi' is not just a word but a culture. The governor was speaking to reporters after participating in a function organised ...

RANCHI: In a significant ruling, the Jharkhand High Court observed that the term ‘Adivasi’ is not a caste and quashed an FIR lodged under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against a government ...

A historic site in Ranchi, Adivasi Maidan, witnessed the start of the Jharkhand statehood movement in 1939. Tribal leader Jaipal Singh Munda addressed a large gathering here, urging unity for tribal ...