The tribal areas of the Rajmahal Hills are under threat of extinction due to excessive mining. Stone mining in Santhal Parganas, Rajmahal Hills, is damaging to the local age-old fossils. The local Pahadiya community are being forced to live under constant environmental degradation as a result of illicit mining. Dumka: Stone mining in Santhal Parganas, […]

Madhya Pradesh: State Cabinet gives nod for rations’ supply at tribals homes               The state government has decided to implement Mukhya Mantri Ration Aapke Dwar scheme. Bhopal: State cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday decided to implement Mukhya Mantri Ration Aapke Dwar scheme to benefit poor tribal families. The scheme

Tribal Health Collaborative ‘Anamaya’: A Multi Stakeholder Initiative to enhance Tribal Health and Nutrition launched                Anamaya, the Tribal Health Collaborative was launched by Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan and Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Shri Arjun Munda at a function in New Delhi today. The Collaborative is a multi-stakeholder initiative

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens used identical Nubian technology            New analysis of a fossil tooth and stone tools from Shukbah Cave reveals Neanderthals used stone tool technologies thought to have been unique to modern humans. Long held in a private collection, the newly analysed tooth of an approximately 9-year-old Neanderthal child