Tribals In Bihar

The Bihar government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Patna High Court verdict that has set aside amended reservation laws in the state, which enabled the Bihar government to increase the quotas for Dalits, tribals and backward classes.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren tried his hands on Mandar, a traditional folk music instrument, on the occasion of Karam Puja in Ranchi yesterday.

Healstation Foundation is a Pune-based non-profit organization working in the tribal (Tharu) areas in and around the forest on Bihars Indo-Nepal border.

PM Modi paid tribute to freedom fighter Birsa Munda, who was born in the tribal belt of the undivided Bihar in 1875, and rallied tribals against the British colonial rule before dying in 1900 in Ranchi jail.

Birsa Munda, a fearless young man from the Munda tribe, spearheaded a revolt against the British in areas now bordering Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.

Ninety-six Christians belonging to 23 tribal families were converted to Hinduism in Tripura on Sunday, right-wing group Hindu Jagran Manch has claimed. The people were mostly labourers from Jharkhand and Bihar who had been forcibly converted in the past, says the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), which apparently oversaw the mass conversion at Unakoti, ...

Eighteen tribal students were rescued from a Buddhist missionary school in Bihar and brought to Agartala, a Tripura minister said Saturday. The children, belonging to the Mog and the Chakma community at Pencharthal in the North Tripura district, were sent to study in Bodh Gaya. The school was shut down two months ago without any information to the ...

In order to provide digital literacy to tribal and dalit women in Bihar, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today felicitated women who have got training from common service centres (CSC) and awarded them tablet PCs.

Santhal tribals in a Bihar village have added a new chapter to their ancient custom of young men and women living together - allowing an unwed mother to marry her dead partner's body to make her children legitimate and give them property rights.

The bodies of five Kharwar tribe members, killed in an attack by Maoists, were recovered from the hills of Banda village in Bihar's Rohtas district today.Over 100 heavily-armed Maoists swooped on the village around 8 pm last night and fired at random, killing five persons including a woman on the spot and injuring four others, sources said.The ultr...

The Bihar government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Patna High Court verdict that has set aside amended reservation laws in the state, which enabled the Bihar government to increase the quotas for Dalits, tribals and backward classes.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren tried his hands on Mandar, a traditional folk music instrument, on the occasion of Karam Puja in Ranchi yesterday.

Healstation Foundation is a Pune-based non-profit organization working in the tribal (Tharu) areas in and around the forest on Bihars Indo-Nepal border.

PM Modi paid tribute to freedom fighter Birsa Munda, who was born in the tribal belt of the undivided Bihar in 1875, and rallied tribals against the British colonial rule before dying in 1900 in Ranchi jail.

Birsa Munda, a fearless young man from the Munda tribe, spearheaded a revolt against the British in areas now bordering Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.

Ninety-six Christians belonging to 23 tribal families were converted to Hinduism in Tripura on Sunday, right-wing group Hindu Jagran Manch has claimed. The people were mostly labourers from Jharkhand and Bihar who had been forcibly converted in the past, says the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), which apparently oversaw the mass conversion at Unakoti, ...

Eighteen tribal students were rescued from a Buddhist missionary school in Bihar and brought to Agartala, a Tripura minister said Saturday. The children, belonging to the Mog and the Chakma community at Pencharthal in the North Tripura district, were sent to study in Bodh Gaya. The school was shut down two months ago without any information to the ...

In order to provide digital literacy to tribal and dalit women in Bihar, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today felicitated women who have got training from common service centres (CSC) and awarded them tablet PCs.

Santhal tribals in a Bihar village have added a new chapter to their ancient custom of young men and women living together - allowing an unwed mother to marry her dead partner's body to make her children legitimate and give them property rights.

The bodies of five Kharwar tribe members, killed in an attack by Maoists, were recovered from the hills of Banda village in Bihar's Rohtas district today.Over 100 heavily-armed Maoists swooped on the village around 8 pm last night and fired at random, killing five persons including a woman on the spot and injuring four others, sources said.The ultr...