Bitiya Murmu’s father died around 1980, when she was just a year-and-a-half old. As the family members grieved their loss, they did not realise that for the next two decades, their lives would be ...

Former Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren was placed under house arrest on Sunday morning, just hours before he was expected to join Adivasi groups in their “Hal Chalao Ropa Ropo” protest against ...

Members from the Kurmi community in Jharkhand on Sunday withdrew a railway blockade that had been called to demand Scheduled Tribe status, after the Centre assured them of a meeting with Union Home ...

As the air turned crisp in Hata village, East Singhbhum, a crowd sitting on red plastic chairs, nibbling samosas and sipping tea, had their eyes fixed on Arjun Munda, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

Pakur (Jharkhand) August 01 (ANI): Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma visited Gaibathan village in Pakur, Jharkhand, where he highlighted a land dispute involving Adivasi families and Bangladeshi ...

In the early 1960s, in the southern hills of Bihar (now Jharkhand), a young Adivasi named Shibu Soren created a distinct tune on the dugdugiya, a traditional tribal percussion instrument. The beat ...

Members of the Kurmi community block railway tracks during a protest demanding Scheduled Tribe status at Muri railway station in Jharkhand. Members of the Kurmi community have been staging protests to ...

RANCHI: Independence Day celebrations will be a low-key affair this time in Jharkhand as a mark of respect to the late tribal icon and founding patron of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Shibu Soren. Governor ...

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 ...

Not always do people who emerge as leaders from the grassroots successfully translate their popularity into electoral success. This is especially the case when the leaders belong to marginalised ...