Topic: Adivasi

A fact-finding report released by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) has concluded that recent incidents of communal violence and social tension across Telangana are not isolated events but part of a broader pattern of politically driven polarisation, institutional bias, and administrative failure, particularly affecting Adivasi, Muslim, Dalit, and other marginalised communities.

Walking over 70 km through Kodagu and Mysuru districts since December 21, 2025, Nagarahole’s Adivasis are demanding recognition of forest rights and an end to illegal projects on their land.

After ASHA workers, Adivasi organisations too have urged film stars not to attend the Kerala government’s upcoming declaration of the state as “extreme poverty-free,” calling it a “misleading, election-driven political move.”

Inspired by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, civil society in Bengaluru has made a list of brands that are supporting, directly or indirectly, the “war against Adivasis” in Bastar.

Shibu Soren, the former Chief Minister of Jharkhand and founder of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), passed away on Monday morning at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi.

Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed what he called “solid evidence of the deprivation of Dalits, Bahujans and institutionalised Manuwad,” after government data revealed a significant backlog in filling reserved category posts in higher education, and demanded that all vacant positions be filled immediately.