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Tribal hunting rights vs wildlife protection laws: Is there a middle ground?  Forest rights in India reflect correlative duties of tribal communities to preserve wildlife and it is in consonance to the fundamental duty under Article 51 A(g) Cases and judgements However, the question remains whether such customary practices associated with wildlife capital can be […]

Hyderabad-based NGO supplies free oxygen in tribal thandas HYDERABAD: Tribal thandas, which are largely inaccessible, have been badly hit due to Covid-19 and consequent restrictions on the movement of people. With no major hospitals around, tribals suffer a lot due to the pandemic virus. Hyderabad-based NGO Social Data Initiatives Forum (SDIF) has taken up the

The Nature-Loving Tribe That Fought To Save Their Sacred Peak & Succeeded! The Dongrias have been known​ ​for their eco-friendly agriculture-based lifestyle. But now they are slowly dying. Ritayan Mukherjee, a photographer, reports. When I first heard about the Dongrias, it was way back in 2013. Their successful fight against a UK-based mining giant to

The dispensable India: Data shows how DNTs, Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims bore lockdown brunt  These communities have suffered on most social indicators due to a mix of poor logistics as well as prejudice and ostracisation Dalit, Muslim and Adivasi households and neighbourhoods have suffered terribly in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in

UP govt launches scheme for Tharu tribe  Uttar Pradesh government has recently launched a scheme to take the unique culture of the Tharu tribes all over the world. The intention of the scheme is to put these tribal villages on tourism map. This will create jobs and bring economic Independence to the tribal population in

Coronavirus | Tribals in Odisha flee villages fearing inoculation Fearing that the Covid vaccine shot may result in their deaths in a few years, people in a tribal village of Rayagada district of southern Odisha fled their homes on Wednesday. Health department officials said people of Champakana village of Rayagada’s Kolnara block fled hours before

As cities adjust to new normal, tribal children suffer from lack of devices, connectivity New Delhi: While urban India is trying to adjust to the new normal triggered by Covid-19, the Centre is struggling with mobile and internet connectivity issues to impart education to children from tribal areas and other socially and economically backward classes.

Chhattisgarh CM to meet tribals protesting security camp A group of social activists, which was earlier stopped on its way to Silger, met Baghel and Governor Anusuiya Uikey on Tuesday with a list of the residents’ demands. They said the protesters have sought an audience with both Baghel and Uikey. A delegation of tribal residents

The Nation Can Learn Lessons On Sustainability From Marginalised Tribal Communities The systematic methods of locality drainage systems, crop rotational farming, rainwater harvesting, usage of earthen utensils and other rational methods have been practised in every tribal household for thousands of years. They have only conveniently, yet, sustainably updated themselves without causing much harm to

Kalahandi’s Kutia Kondhs: Subsistence a struggle for this tribe of nature worshippers Despite living in abject poverty and depending on natural resources for survival, the Kondhs do not use wood from the forests for fuel and also prevent illegal tree   The Kutia Kondhs are a particularly vulnerable tribal groups in Kalahandi district, Odisha. They