Archive for the ‘Adivasi News’ Category

ADN STUDENT GRANTS

ADN offers grant to students for a maximum of Rs. 10,000 for costs relating to education such as school fees, books, coaching for entrance exams, computer courses and participating in conference and short term training programs. Please download the application (right hand side) and submit it by July 25, 2010. * Checklist of documents: o [...]

Nilam Needs Your Urgent Help

Nilam Achal Topno S/o – late Moses Topno resident village Dhingur Pani Post – Parba District – Simdega, studying in class eight in St Xavier School, Doranda needs your urgent help. His father died on 30th May 2009 due to heart attacked. He was employee in AG office. His mother (Smt. Sanarti Topno) is suffering [...]

Sold for Rs 10000, rescued after months

Ranchi, March 17: A girl from Lohardaga, who went to New Delhi in search of a job and became a victim of trafficking, was finally rescued from Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. Sunita Kumari, 18, daughter of retired army man Sukro Oraon and a resident of Mahuari village in the district, was trafficked to Srinagar, from [...]

Why tribals have good heart: By Santosh K. Kiro

Ranchi, Feb. 3: At a time when the World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that India will become the “world capital” of coronary heart disease by 2020, a Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) student in the state capital has come out with a surprising fact. His research, spanning over two years, has shown that [...]

Dooards on a knife-edge, 2 die

BANERHAT/SILIGURI: Riots broke out in the foothills of the Himalayas in north Bengal on Saturday morning, with large parts of the Dooars witnessing bloody street fights between the Nepali-speaking population and the Adivasis.  At the end of the day, two persons were dead one Nepali, the other Adivasi. The rift between the communities had been there [...]