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

The Great Nicobar Megaproject threatens to destroy 10 million trees and disrupt the lives of the indigenous Nicobarese people. Once tsunami survivors, they now face another disaster—mass deforestation ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 tribe, which has a small population of under 50, lives on the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The journal highly recommends preserving the diary of Chau, as it ...

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