The Madhya Pradesh government has approved amendments simplifying labour laws to reduce compliance for small and medium ...

Remote villages in Odisha assert their rights over forest resources, transforming their livelihoods and challenging ...

BARIPADA: Forest and Environment minister Ganesh Ram Singkhuntia inaugurated the Similipal wildlife safari and Talabandha nature camp at Talabandh in Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday. Speaking at the ...

BARIPADA: A group of tribal residents from Keshdiha village in Thakurmunda block of Mayurbhanj district recently met collector Hemakanta Say, seeking justice over land allegedly encroached by ...

U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced on Monday that her department will return over $1 billion in unused COVID-era funding back to the taxpayer amid the Trump ...

Activists working in this field attribute tribal practice, dowry ... Koraput comes next with 636. It was followed by Mayurbhanj (594), Rayagada (408), Balasore (361), Keonjhar (328), Kandhamal (308) ...

An insurgent Blue Labour is colliding with the Treasury and the progressive left. By George Eaton In Margaret Thatcher’s final TV interview with Brian Walden – newly dramatised by Channel 4 – she ...

Cuttack: Orissa high court has directed Mayurbhanj police to immediately take steps to ensure a tribal family does not face social boycott for refusing to pay a fine of Rs 25,000 imposed by a ...

Habitat rights legally sanction tribal communities living in a particular geographical ... In Durdura village, for instance, younger generations are increasingly turning to daily wage labour, ...

One of the 13 particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) in Odisha, the Mankirdias are mostly scattered in and around Similipal in the Mayurbhanj district ... youth have shifted to farm or ...

My curiosity to know the horizons of modern social life led to the Koitor forest dwellers in Bastar, to the Kuttia Khonds in Phulbani, and to the Kharias in Mayurbhanj, Odisha. I observed the ...

Deep inside Odisha’s predominantly tribal Mayurbhanj district, the village of 800 people has rarely, if ever, called itself developed. Most homes are made of mud with walls painted with tribal ...