Orissa Tribals

The Central University of Odisha launched a tribal digital literacy programme at its campus in collaboration with the Forum for Integrated Development and Research to improve digital skills and literacy among the tribal youth.

Acting Vice-Chancellor S K Palita said the university in Koraput district would offer a digital literacy programme to students belonging to tribal and marginalised communities of the region with the support of the Research and Development institute.

The Hirakhand Express, running through Naxal-affected tribal areas of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, will be the second train after the premium Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express to have a sanitary pad vending machine onboard.

Vedanta Resources Plc's plans to mine bauxite to feed its alumina refinery in Odisha have suffered a blow after a majority of local residents voted against mining around the hills they consider sacred.

There is no word yet on the kidnapped Italians who are being held hostage by the Maoists in Odisha's Kandhamal district. One of the two abducted men, Boscusco Paolo, has been visiting Odisha since 1999 and runs a travel agency in Puri that takes foreign tourists on tribal tours. The other, Clandio Colangilo, is a tourist. The two were kidnapped fro...

Over 600 tribal children, many from primitive tribes, trekked long distances to appear at a screening test for admission to schools in Orissa's Maoist-hit Malkangiri district.

The fate of the POSCO's  Rs 51,000 crore integrated steel plant project in Orissa may be decided today after the Forest Advisory Council takes a view on the split report submitted by a four member Central panel headed by former Union Environment Secretary Meena Gupta.The panel was to examine whether Central Acts were violated by the project. T...

Narayanpatna, a tribal dominated area in Orissa's Koratpur district, is once again on the boil.It was just in 2009, that Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh, an organisation believed to be a frontal body of Maoists, was involved in a land-grab movement that shocked the rest of the state. In July 2009, the organisation had forcibly taken over 2000 acres of la...

Days after the environment ministry cancelled its clearance to the Vedanta mining project in Orissa and put its refinery on notice, workers are protesting at the plant site in Lanjigarh.More than 5000 workers were suddenly retrenched on Tuesday by Larsen & Turbo, the contractor for carrying out Vedanta's construction work.After protests by the ...

A four-member Central panel is on a two-day visit to Orissa to probe if any forest laws have been violated at the proposed site for POSCO Steel plant near Paradeep Port.This is the second Central panel after Ashish Kothari committee to have visited the area.The earlier panel reported that the rights of tribals in the area had been ignored, somethin...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is celebrating "victory" in Orissa's Kalahandi, saying the rejection of environment clearance to a big bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills is a victory of the local tribal people."Your voice reached Delhi and you saved your land. I did what I could, but this is your victory," Rahul said in Lanjigarh on Thursda...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has arrived in a helicopter in Lanjigarh, where tribals are fighting a mining project by UK-bsaed Vedanta.  This comes just two after the Centre's rejection of environment clearance to its bauxite mining project. (Read: Jairam says no to Vedanta mining project in Orissa)"Rahulji will interact with the tribal people...

The Dongaria Kondh tribals from Kalahandi Orissa, became an international talking point among environmentalists. Their story mirroring the Naa'vi, the blue-skinned nature-loving aliens of the 2009 movie Avatar, who are massacred by greedy human miners drew much acclaim.However, for the Dongaria tribe and its firebrand leader Lodo Sikaka, the repres...

The Dongria Kondh are a primitive tribal community who live in the pristine hills around Niyamgiri in Western Orissa's Kalahandi district. On youTube, a series of spots campaigns have been running for their rights against a corporation named Vedanta. The mountain, the Dongria Kondhs worship, is the centre of rich deposits of bauxite that Vedanta wa...

The Orissa Assembly spoke in one voice demanding harsh punishment for teachers accused of raping and molesting students in a state-run tribal school.

The Central University of Odisha launched a tribal digital literacy programme at its campus in collaboration with the Forum for Integrated Development and Research to improve digital skills and literacy among the tribal youth.

Acting Vice-Chancellor S K Palita said the university in Koraput district would offer a digital literacy programme to students belonging to tribal and marginalised communities of the region with the support of the Research and Development institute.

The Hirakhand Express, running through Naxal-affected tribal areas of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, will be the second train after the premium Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express to have a sanitary pad vending machine onboard.

Vedanta Resources Plc's plans to mine bauxite to feed its alumina refinery in Odisha have suffered a blow after a majority of local residents voted against mining around the hills they consider sacred.

There is no word yet on the kidnapped Italians who are being held hostage by the Maoists in Odisha's Kandhamal district. One of the two abducted men, Boscusco Paolo, has been visiting Odisha since 1999 and runs a travel agency in Puri that takes foreign tourists on tribal tours. The other, Clandio Colangilo, is a tourist. The two were kidnapped fro...

Over 600 tribal children, many from primitive tribes, trekked long distances to appear at a screening test for admission to schools in Orissa's Maoist-hit Malkangiri district.

The fate of the POSCO's  Rs 51,000 crore integrated steel plant project in Orissa may be decided today after the Forest Advisory Council takes a view on the split report submitted by a four member Central panel headed by former Union Environment Secretary Meena Gupta.The panel was to examine whether Central Acts were violated by the project. T...

Narayanpatna, a tribal dominated area in Orissa's Koratpur district, is once again on the boil.It was just in 2009, that Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh, an organisation believed to be a frontal body of Maoists, was involved in a land-grab movement that shocked the rest of the state. In July 2009, the organisation had forcibly taken over 2000 acres of la...

Days after the environment ministry cancelled its clearance to the Vedanta mining project in Orissa and put its refinery on notice, workers are protesting at the plant site in Lanjigarh.More than 5000 workers were suddenly retrenched on Tuesday by Larsen & Turbo, the contractor for carrying out Vedanta's construction work.After protests by the ...

A four-member Central panel is on a two-day visit to Orissa to probe if any forest laws have been violated at the proposed site for POSCO Steel plant near Paradeep Port.This is the second Central panel after Ashish Kothari committee to have visited the area.The earlier panel reported that the rights of tribals in the area had been ignored, somethin...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is celebrating "victory" in Orissa's Kalahandi, saying the rejection of environment clearance to a big bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills is a victory of the local tribal people."Your voice reached Delhi and you saved your land. I did what I could, but this is your victory," Rahul said in Lanjigarh on Thursda...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has arrived in a helicopter in Lanjigarh, where tribals are fighting a mining project by UK-bsaed Vedanta.  This comes just two after the Centre's rejection of environment clearance to its bauxite mining project. (Read: Jairam says no to Vedanta mining project in Orissa)"Rahulji will interact with the tribal people...

The Dongaria Kondh tribals from Kalahandi Orissa, became an international talking point among environmentalists. Their story mirroring the Naa'vi, the blue-skinned nature-loving aliens of the 2009 movie Avatar, who are massacred by greedy human miners drew much acclaim.However, for the Dongaria tribe and its firebrand leader Lodo Sikaka, the repres...

The Dongria Kondh are a primitive tribal community who live in the pristine hills around Niyamgiri in Western Orissa's Kalahandi district. On youTube, a series of spots campaigns have been running for their rights against a corporation named Vedanta. The mountain, the Dongria Kondhs worship, is the centre of rich deposits of bauxite that Vedanta wa...

The Orissa Assembly spoke in one voice demanding harsh punishment for teachers accused of raping and molesting students in a state-run tribal school.