Adivasis
- Telangana
Sammakka-Saralamma jatara to be held from Jan 28 to 31
Hyderabad: The biennial Sammakka-Saralamma jatara celebrated by the Koya tribes in Medaram village of Tadvai mandal in Mulugu district, will be held from January 28 to 31, 2026, announced the temple’s priests.…
- Telangana
Maoists oppose relocation of adivasis from 339 villages in Telangana
Hyderabad: The Communist Party of India (Maoist) has strongly opposed the Telangana government’s decision to relocate the adivasis from 339 villages in Kumram-Bheem Asifabad district in the name of a tiger forest…
- Telangana
Abused for taking bath near sump, tribal boy dies by suicide in Telangana
Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, a teenager belonging to the scheduled tribes (Yanadi) community died by suicide after consuming pesticide, after allegedly being beaten and scolded by a woman from the Yadava…
- Hyderabad
Telangana Adivasis and people’s orgs demand end to ‘Operation Kagaar’
Hyderabad: A joint action committee comprising Adivasis and people’s organisations held a protest at the district collectorate in Mulugu on Wednesday, April 30, demanding that the Centre stop killing innocent Adivasis under…
- Telangana
25 Gothikoya families dispossessed in Telangana despite government assurances
Hyderabad: Congress leaders have repeatedly assured the adivasis that forest officials will not disturb them tilling their podu lands. However, the land conflict between the Gothikoyas and forest officials in Telangana doesn’t…
- Telangana
Adivasis in Telangana hit by low-yield maize seeds
Hyderabad: Adivasi maize seed producing farmers in Mulugu district have lost heavily after getting low yield on the maize seeds given to them by seed companies. Many of the farmers and farm…
- Hyderabad
Telangana People’s organisations demand end to Operation Kagaar in Chhattisgarh
Hyderabad: People’s organisations and communist parties have demanded an immediate end to ‘Operation Kagaar’ launched by the Centre in Chhattisgarh, which has claimed 300 lives in the name of encounters in 2024,…
- Telangana
Telangana: Hit hard by violence, Jainoor minorities suffer major economic setbacks
Hyderabad: Even as prohibitory orders have been lifted in Jainoor, which has been on the boil following the destruction of businesses and houses of Muslims on September 4, the victims of the…
- Telangana
BJP/RSS used Adivasis as pawns in Jainoor: Telangana social activists
Hyderabad: Alleging a political conspiracy behind the attack on the houses, shops and vehicles belonging to the Muslims in Jainoor mandal headquarters of Komuram-Bheem Asifabad district on September 4, social activists said…
- Telangana
Telangana: Adivasi workers protest for 19 months of pending salaries
Hyderabad: The Adivasi outsourced workers rendering their services at the various tribal welfare post-matric hostels (PMH) across Telangana protested at the office of the tribal welfare department on Tuesday, September 24, demanding…
- Telangana
Telangana: Adivasis in Adilabad, Asifabad call for bandh on Sep 21
Hyderabad: The adivasis of Adilabad and Asifabad have called for a bandh on September 21, with their main demand being dispossessing outsiders from tribal lands and the implementation of 1/70 Act and…
- India
‘No Dalit, Adivasi in Miss India list, I checked,’ says Rahul Gandhi
Prayagraj: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said he checked the list of former Miss India but found no Dalit, tribal, or OBC among the winners. Gandhi made the remark during a…
- Telangana
Neither Assembly nor CM, only Governor can resolve tribal issues: Ch Vidyasagar Rao
Hyderabad: Strongly asserting that the Governors had the full authority over the fifth schedule areas where the Adivasis live, former Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao said that neither the Assembly nor the…
- Telangana
Against all odds: Gothi Koya’s pursuit of education & acceptance
Hyderabad: Kalumu Shukram, 22, is a Goth Koya Adivasi whose family had migrated from the Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh to Mulugu district fearing for their lives decades ago. Caught in the crossfire…
- Telangana
More than meets the eye in Nagarkurnool Chenchu woman torture case
Hyderabad: The barbaric torture of Nirmalamma*, a Chenchu woman from Molachinthalapalli village in Kollapur mandal, Nagarkurnool district, has shocked the conscience of Telangana’s civil society. Though the issue has been projected as…
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