...
...

tribe news

Centre to unveil TribeX at national workshop on Tribal Research Institutes

The ministry also expects the platform to encourage research, facilitate cultural exchange and create livelihood opportunities for tribal communities.
Updated on Jul 06, 2026 10:17 pm IST

Rare encounter: Villagers show man from uncontacted tribe how to use lighter

A man from an uncounted Indigenous tribe sees a lighter.
Updated on Feb 15, 2025 07:32 am IST

Maharashtra: Pregnant woman dies of heart attack at hospital in Palghar

A 31-year-old lady passed away in a hospital in the tribally dominated Palghar region of Maharashtra while giving birth.
Published on Jan 03, 2025 02:39 pm IST

'Uncontacted' tribe in Peru's Amazon kills 2 loggers with bow and arrow

Members of the "uncontacted" Mashco Piro tribe along the Las Piedras River in Peru's Amazon. They killed two loggers using a bow and arrow.
Updated on Sept 05, 2024 06:06 am IST

Centre launches project to train tribal students in semiconductor technology

As part of the project, The Ministry of Tribal Affairs aims to train 2,100 tribal students in semiconductor technology over the next three years. (Representative image)
Published on Aug 08, 2024 05:52 pm IST

Union Budget 2024: FM launches ‘Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan’ for tribal welfare

Funds of 13,000 crore has been allocated by the government this year to the tribal affairs ministry compared to 7,605 crore in the previous financial year, said Minister Sitharaman.
Published on Jul 23, 2024 07:19 pm IST

Travelling to Assam? Visit Guwahati as it gears up to host Rongali festival

Girls from the Garo tribe perform a traditional Wangala dance during the Rongali Bihu festival, organised by All Assam Students Union in Guwahati, capital of the north eastern state of Assam, India. Travelling to Assam? Visit Guwahati as it gears up to host 8th Edition of Rongali festival
Published on Jun 20, 2024 09:14 am IST

Kristi Noem banned from entering 20% of South Dakota, but not for killing puppy

The prohibition comes after Kristi Noem suggested that tribal chiefs benefited from narcotics traffickers, prompting several Native American tribes to deny her access to their lands.
Published on May 12, 2024 07:27 pm IST

World Tribal Day 2023: Date, history, theme and significance

Bhil tribe of MP’s Jhabua performing their traditional Bhagoriya dance at the fest.
Published on Aug 09, 2023 11:18 am IST

Appoint SC, ST, women reps in student redressal panels: UGC

The UGC on Thursday asked all higher education institutions to comply with the new norms that seek to address problems faced by students already enrolled in any institution, as well as those seeking admission to such places
Updated on Apr 15, 2023 12:07 am IST

Monpa tribe look up to e-platforms for preserving hand-made paper-making craft

The preservation and revival of a thousand-year-old paper-making craft of the Monpa tribe are what matters most.
Published on Dec 04, 2022 08:01 pm IST

Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu tweets video of kids doing a traditional dance

These Sajolang children were seen performing a traditional dance happily. 
Updated on Nov 19, 2021 11:19 am IST

How modernisation deleted this endangered tribe’s dialect

Ever-increasing penetration in a connected world dominated by a globalised and homogenised community, the languages spoken in remote places like Patalkot are no longer safe from the dominating languages of the commercial world.
Updated on Aug 27, 2019 02:02 pm IST

The tribe of Samuel: Joining forces with child-free and anti-natalist evangelists

Samuel Raphael with his grandmother Sunanda Karnad in Mumbai. Raphael had hit the headlines when he said he wanted to sue his mother for giving birth to him.
Updated on Mar 18, 2019 04:21 pm IST

Assam groups promised ST status say implement it first, as existing tribes threaten agitation

Guwahati: Kalita Janagosthi Sanmilan activists raise slogans during a protest demanding Schedule Tribe (ST) status at Six Mile, in Guwahati, Friday, Oct 05, 2018. (PTI Photo)(PTI10_5_2018_000064B)
Published on Jan 10, 2019 11:39 am IST

Two Americans encouraged US man killed by remote tribe to visit forbidden Andaman island, say police

An American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary, John Allen Chau, has been killed and buried by a tribe of hunter-gatherers on a remote island in the Indian Ocean.
Updated on Dec 01, 2018 07:34 pm IST

Why the Sentinelese, the Andaman tribe that killed US man, want to be left alone

In this handout photo provided by the Indian Coast Guard and Survival International and taken on December 28, 2004, a man with the Sentinelese tribe aims his bow and arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter as it flies over North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands.
Updated on Nov 23, 2018 04:04 pm IST

Khasi council in Meghalaya passes Bill to strip women of ST status, rights if they marry outside tribe

Khasis are one the three major tribes of Meghalaya, the others being Garo and Jaintia, which follow a matrilineal society. The children take their mother’s surname and ancestral property is inherited by the youngest daughter.
Updated on Jul 26, 2018 09:22 pm IST