Adivasi scholars suggest that at least three factors make Jharkhand different: political consciousness of its Adivasis; memories of the statehood movement; and, traditional relations between the ...

Jagarnath Murmu, a 39-year-old Santhal man, works as a security guard in a gated society in the Kanke area of Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand. With the Diwali baksheesh he received from ...

Hemant Soren was sworn in for the fourth time as chief minister of Jharkhand Thursday after having retained office with an enhanced majority in the legislative assembly. His is a remarkable political ...

Earlier this year, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led government faced a crisis in Jharkhand as its leader, Hemant Soren, stepped down from the chief minister’s post and was jailed on corruption charges.

The Adivasi Samanvaya Samiti Bharat from Assam met with Jharkhand's Chief Minister Hemant Soren to discuss their socio-economic and identity-related challenges. Soren pledged support and announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda said on Saturday that if the BJP win the Jharkhand Assembly Election, no tribal rights will be given to the children of Bangladeshi ...

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 ...

RANCHI: In a significant ruling, the Jharkhand High Court observed that the term ‘Adivasi’ is not a caste and quashed an FIR lodged under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against a government ...