The Great Nicobar Megaproject threatens to destroy 10 million trees and disrupt the lives of the indigenous Nicobarese people ...

The Tribe's Resilience After the 2004 Tsunami The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of the Andaman ...

Other than colonial Europeans visiting the larger Andaman islands, and occasional shipwreck ... anthropological research on other Andamanese tribes (seen below). A decade later, in 1991, an ...

The 1956 Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation prohibits entry within five nautical miles of the island to safeguard the tribal community from the risk of mainland ...

There will be no environmental impact and no tribal will be displaced due to the Great Nicobar project, Tribal Affairs ...

North Sentinel Island is home to a mysterious tribe called the Sentinelese, who have lived in isolation for thousands of years. This small island, part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is ...

Survival International’s director, Stephen Corry, said: "The Great Andamanese tribes of India’s Andaman Islands were decimated by disease when the British colonised the islands in the 1800s.

Per a ministry of tourism statement released this week, the Union government has allocated ₹27.57 crore since 2016-17 to ...

MP Saket Gokhale questioned the government’s stance, pointing out that the assessment was prepared at the request of the ...

Tribal affairs minister Jual Oram told the Rajya Sabha in response to Congress’ Jairam Ramesh and TMC’s Saket Gokhale that no objection from any anthropologist was "available" to the GoI ...

The Indian Navy may soon have access to a strategically located Indonesian island.