Each painting of hers tells a story. In one, tribespeople are clearing a parcel of land in the forest to farm on it and grow food. In another, they are depicted as singing and dancing in front of ...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday appointed former Union minister and tribal leader Rameshwar Oraon the party’s new chief in Jharkhand, barely three months before the assembly elections in the ...

Manoj Kumar Oraon expressed hope that Buxa would emerge as a fully established tiger habitat within 10 to 15 years.

Noted educationist and tribal rights advocate Karma Oraon died at a private hospital in Ranchi on Sunday. He was 72. Karma had not been keeping well for some time now, sources close to him said. He ...

Better known as Jharkhand’s waterman, Simon Oraon had always been more popular among farmers in the district’s Bedo block than the country’s newspaper-reading public. But all that changed on Monday, ...

Ranchi: Sisai MLA Dinesh Oraon was elected as the first tribal speaker of Jharkhand assembly here on Wednesday. He was elected unopposed through a voice vote by the house where treasury and opposition ...

The family of Astam Oraon, the captain of India's U-17 women's football team, is set to watch television at their Jharkhand home for the first time. What makes it special is that they're going to ...

One evening in 1993, a young Adivasi doctor named Narayan Oraon visited his friend Vinod Kumar Bhagat at a student hostel in Ranchi. The movement for separate statehood for Jharkhand, then a part of ...

Simon Oraon Minj, an octogenarian tribal Catholic who received India's fourth highest civilian honor, credits his community for his awarding-winning work to protect the environment and conserve water.

Her bare fingers act as her painting brush. Charcoal, clay, red clay and green leaves are the ingredients from where she draws her colours. The walls and floorings are her canvas. This is not just for ...