The situation is still tense at Gaibandha's Gobindaganj upazila after Sunday's attack on the Santal community leaving two of them dead. Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, Philimon Baske, a local ...

Indigenous Santals from Rangpur region formed a human chain and laid siege to the Deputy Commissioner's office in the city yesterday protesting the eviction of Santals from Sahebganj-Bagda sugarcane ...

The Santals, who were evicted from the disputed land of Rangpur Sugar Mills in Sahebganj last month, could not enjoy the Christmas as they have no home as well as money. The indigenous people, who ...

For Andreas Murmu, 35, an indigenous Santal man, this Christmas is going to be the most joyless one of his entire life. Murmu, a Catholic, has been living like a refugee with his wife and two sons in ...

Police in northern Bangladesh have arrested one of the alleged masterminds of arson attacks on the indigenous Santal community in 2016 that left at least three dead, dozens hurt and hundreds of houses ...

Gobindaganj police were following orders when they opened fire at the indigenous Santals during the violent clash between villagers and local sugar mill workers in the upazila earlier this month, said ...

Hundreds of Santals from Madarpur village in Gobindaganj Upazila blocked the road to Dinajpur on Sunday after the news of the submission of the charge-sheet emerged. They protested against the ...

Three members of the ethnic community died in the Nov 6 incident, which the Santals say was a 'pre-planned murder'. The allegations by leaders of the community came on Tuesday during a public hearing ...

Here's an exclusive extract from 'Hul! Hul!' by Peter Stanley, published with the permission of Bloomsbury Publishing India. What did the Santals seek to achieve by rising? The Hindoo Patriot ...

President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said the contributions of the Santals to the country's freedom struggle have not received due recognition, and asserted that the names of several legends belonging ...

BHUBANESWAR : For the Santal tribe in Odisha, one of the oldest and largest tribal communities of the State, the nomination of their very own Droupadi Murmu to the highest office of the Indian ...