Koraput tribals resort to Black magic to get rid of ‘unknown disease’

KORAPUT - Tribals in Orissa’s Koraput district are resorting to black magic and superstitions to get cured from the spell of an unknown disease, which the doctors are yet to identify.

Government distributes forestland amongst tribals in Orissa

KORAPUT - In a bid to resolve growing tension over land between tribals and non-tribals in Orissa’s Koraput district, the State Government on Sunday distributed forest land amongst tribals under the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act.

Situation remains tense in Koraput

KORAPUT - Orissa’s tribal-dominated Koraput district remained tense on Tuesday, a day after a man was killed in a clash, which broke out between the two factions of the Maoist backed tribal outfit, Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS).

Orissa tribals adopt beekeeping business

KORAPUT - Tribals in Orissa’s Kaoraput district take to apiculture to earn a living. A non- governmental organization called ‘Sarvodaya Committee’ initiated the honey collection in 1955, aided by Orissa Khadi and Village industry board.

Toy making from paper pulp empowers tribal women in Orissa

KORAPUT - Tribal women in Koraput district of Orissa are engaging in the art of making toys from paper pulp, which helps them to make a living.

Tribals in Orissa resort to forcible reclaim of forest-land from companies

KORAPUT - Several agitated tribals in Orissa’s Koraput district have resorted to forcible eviction methods of private companies from the forest land, in the disguise of restoration of land to tribals, the so-called ‘real’ owners.

Koraput Tribals launch sanitation drive

KORAPUT - Tribals in Orissa’s Koraput District have launched a sanitation drive to keep their villages clean and hygienic.

Security forces restore road connectivity to Narayanpatna in Koraput

KORAPUT - Road connectivity to Narayanpatna in Koraput district of Orissa, which had been cut off by a tribal group Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS), was restored in an operation conducted jointly by the State and Central Forces on Saturday.

Orissa tribals occupy land in Koraput

KORAPUT - A tribal outfit in Orissa intensified their protests against occupation of land by non-tribals here on Wednesday.

Orissa tribes learn to construct hydroelectric plant

Koraput (Orissa), June 13 (ANI): A self-help group is training the tribes in Orissa to construct and operate electricity plant.

Villagers in Orissa demand basic facilities

KORAPUT - As a mark of protest against the absence of basic facilities, villagers in Koraput district of Orissa have threatened not to vote in the upcoming general elections.

Seven paramilitaries, four naxals killed in Orissa mine encounter

KORAPUT - Seven CISF personnel and four Maoists have been killed in a gun-battle that took place when hundreds of ultras attacked an ammunition store and bauxite mine of NALCO in Orissa’s Koraput district on Sunday night.