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- Hyderabad
Hyderabad activists back tribal museum plan at Telugu University
Hyderabad: Social and cultural activists in Telangana have thrown their weight behind a proposal to set up a tribal art museum, Aadhya Kala, inside the Nampally campus of Suravaram Pratapa Reddy Telugu University,…
- Hyderabad
Telugu University students fight to keep their classrooms
Hyderabad: Students and faculty of the Suravaram Pratapa Reddy Telugu University in Nampally have been protesting for 10 days now against the Telangana government’s plans to allot the entire ground floor of the…
- Hate Crime
Evicted tribal family allowed back after reconversion vow
Narayanpur: Residents of a village in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district briefly evicted a tribal family from their settlement on Tuesday, June 30, over alleged religious conversion, but allowed it to return after its…
- India
BJP-RSS eyeing ‘jal, jangal, zameen’ of tribals: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, June 3, accused the BJP-RSS of having an “anti-Adivasi mindset” and claimed that they are seeking to deprive the tribals of their rights to…
- India
UCC will not affect tribals, don’t fall for conspiracies: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will not affect tribals in any way and urged the community not to fall for “conspiracies” and…
- Hate Crime
Religious conversion is like throwing salt on Sanatan tree: IRS officer
Jharkhand: Tribal Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Nesha Oraon on Friday, May 15, made controversial remarks, comparing religious conversion to destroying the very roots of the “Tree of Sanatan,” and that “abandoning”…
- India
1 student dead, 100 ill after meal at Odisha tribal school; govt orders probe
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday, April 15, ordered an investigation after a Class 5 girl died and over 100 students fell ill after having a meal at a tribal residential school…
- India
Odisha: Tribals, police clash over construction of road to bauxite mine
Bhubaneswar: Nearly 50 people, including 40 security personnel, were injured in a clash with local tribals over the construction of a road to Sijimali bauxite mine in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Tuesday,…
- India
Vandalism, arson mark Meghalaya’s Garo Hills violence, 2 dead
Shillong: Two Muslim men were reportedly killed, and multiple people were injured in clashes that erupted in Meghalaya, after residents received a notification restricting non-tribal individuals from contesting the elections in the…
- Featured News
AI helps translate tribal languages; IIIT Hyderabad plays a key role
Now AI (Artificial Intelligence) has come to the help of instant translation of India’s diverse tribal languages, many of them facing threat of extinction. ‘Adi Vaani’, is the name of the AI…
- India
2 tribal men tied to tree, assaulted for eloping with women in Gujarat; 10 held
Godhra: Two tribal men were kidnapped, tied to a tree and thrashed allegedly by a group of people for eloping with two women with whom they were in a relationship in Gujarat’s…
- India
Video: Tribal couple forced to plough field for defying marriage norms
Bhubaneswar: A tribal couple in Odisha’s Rayagada district was allegedly forced to plough a field with a yoke placed on their shoulders as a form of public punishment for marrying against community…
- India
Normal life hit in two Manipur districts as tribal body calls shutdown
Imphal: Normal life was badly affected in Manipur’s Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts on Friday as Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF), a leading organisation of the Kuki-Zo community, enforced an indefinite shutdown in…
- India
Strike balance between mining activities & protection of forests in Gadchiroli: Pawar
Mumbai: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday stressed the need to strike a balance between pursuing mining activities in tribal-dominated Gadchiroli and protection of forests as well as safeguarding the interests…
- India
Manipur: Situation calm in tribal areas, no fresh incidents reported
New Delhi: The situation in Kuki-Zo tribal inhabited areas in Manipur remained tense but calm on Monday and no untoward incident was reported from the tribal-dominated areas after Saturday’s clashes with the…
