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Smart development means eco smartIndia and Japan are collaborating to enhance maritime cooperation, focusing on sustainable technologies and infrastructure development in t...
10 members of Andaman tribe test positive for coronavirus, officials on high alertThere are six notified scheduled tribes in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Except Nicobarese, the rest --Great Andamane...
Tablighi link to 9 of 10 Andaman Coronavirus casesThe government machinery is keeping a strict vigil on the movement of people. To restrict movement, the administration had taken some measu...
Search for those who met Tableeghi jamat preachers intensifiesThe first Covid-19 casualty in the Kashmir Valley, a 65-year-old man from Srinagar, had travelled with the group to different states includ...
First contact: The woman who softened the SentineleseTwenty-seven years ago, a 13-member team established the first and only friendly contact with the Sentinelese which had a young woman anthr...
When the Sentinelese shun bows and arrows to welcome outsidersIn 1991, a 13-member team met the reclusive Sentinelese tribe on their shores. The tribesmen, apparently, were curious about young anthropo...
Why the British chose to leave the Andamans’ tribes aloneIn the late 19th century, the British administration contemplated exterminating the entire aboriginal population, considering them savages ...
Learning with the Times: Why the Sentinelese choose solitude even 60,000 years onThe first modern settlement of outsiders was established in 1789 by Lt. Blair at Chatham Island, now part of Port Blair.
Why all attempts at ‘assimilating’ Andamanese tribes have ended badlyThe North Sentinelese are among the only surviving direct descendants of the first humans in Asia.
Andaman tribes may have a new human ancestorScientists at NIBMG, West Bengal, working with those from the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, made this discovery after analysing genetic s...
Andamans and its tribals: Meet the first Indians while they are still aroundGenetic studies suggest the Andaman tribals go back over 65,000 years, but why don’t our history and culture books acknowledge these deplet...
Rendezvous with the world's most uncontacted tribesThere are said to be as many as one hundred “uncontacted tribes” still living in some of the most isolated regions of the world.
Plan your next vacation with Lambadi community, the desert dwellers in RajasthanIndia is home to a large number of indigenous people, who still live by their traditional customs. Talented Lambadi women from Rajasthan si...
Cycling on the Andaman Trunk RoadThe Andaman Trunk Road runs the length of the Andamans. Cycling along it, the author sees signs of trouble in this fragile archipelago.
What is the government doing to prevent another 'Jarawa-like incident?In the absence of policy and a willingness to understand the untouched way of life, the alienation between isolated tribes & govt will pers...