Mysore/Mysuru: Seven persons hailing from Pakshirajapura in Hunsur taluk in Mysuru district, trapped in civil war-hit Khartum, the capital city of Sudan, have reached a safe place by foot. Amid frequent bombings and exchange of gun fire, the natives belonging to Hakki- Pikki tribe are learnt to have trod to a place called Ambada about…
Deputy Commissioner visits H.D. Kote’s Tiger Block, Hunsur’s Pakshirajapura, speaks with families H.D. Kote: Over 116 members of the Hakki-Pikki tribal community from Hunsur, Pakshirajapura and Tiger Block in H.D. Kote are stuck in violence-hit Sudan, even as the government is making efforts to bring them back. Hakki-Pikki community, one of the important nomadic communities…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru District Administration has received information that around 108 nomadic Hakki-Pikki community people from Pakshirajapura, Shankarapura in Hunsur taluk, and Tiger Block hamlet in H.D. Kote are stranded in a strife-torn Sudan. In Sudan, there is an ongoing gunfight between the army and paramilitary groups and reports said that firing was going on…
Tribal and Hakki-Pikki communities living on the forest fringes and small hamlets of Hunsur and Hanagodu might stay safe from COVID infection but they are pushed into poverty and starvation as their lone source of livelihood, passed on from generations has been cut off, thanks to lockdown. The lockdown has not only made the urban…
Mysore/Mysuru: Karva Chauth, which is specially celebrated in North India, was observed by tribals belonging to Hakki-Pikki Community at Pakshirajapura in Hunsur taluk of Mysuru last night. The festival falls on the fourth day after the full moon, in the Hindu lunisolar calendar month of Kartik. Karva is another word for ‘pot’ (a small earthen…
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