Watching his father toiling as a labourer, Jaiprakash Singh decided that he must aspire for something much higher. Jaiprakash, who belongs to a tribal community in Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur district, is on his way to achieving his dream; with the 750th rank in the reserved category of IIT-JEE examinations, he is all set to enter the … Read more
Pharmaceutical companies in the West have seized on developing countries like India over the past five years as a testing ground for drugs, where the research costs for lucrative products to be sold in the Western nations are very low. According to the ‘Independent’, after the relaxation of restrictions on drug trials in 2005, this … Read more
At a time when the outrage over the video showing Andaman’s Jarawa tribals being made to dance in front of tourists is yet to die down, the Orissa SC/ST department is parading people from aborigine tribes for visitors at a state-organised tribal fair that kicked off here on January 26. About 250 tribals, many of … Read more
The Hindu, Nagercoil, April 24, 2012 The Earth Day was celebrated by the tribal foundation at the Vellambi Kani tribal settlement in Keeripparai forest in the Western Ghats on Sunday. Addressing the gathering, the environmental educator, S. S. Davidson, gave a clarion call to save the planet Earth. He pointed out that the earth, the only … Read more
The Hindu, BHUBANESWAR, April 26, 2012 With the tribal population in forest regions in southern and western districts of Odisha continuing to be at risk of malarial attack, the State government has decided to rope in ‘dakua’ (drummers) of different tribes to spread awareness on this highly prevalent vector-borne disease. Every week these ‘dakuas’ will … Read more