US national arrested for entering North Sentinel Island: A look back at the 2018 case of John Allen ChauThe arrest of US national Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov for entering the prohibited tribal reserve area of the North Sentinel Island comes ...
How an American made friends with isolated Anadaman's Sentinelese community with Diet Coke cansA US national, Mykhailo Viktorvych Polyakov, 24, was arrested for entering prohibited areas in Andaman and Nicobar islands, including North...
American man arrested for illegally entering Andaman's North Sentinel Island, home to one of the world's most isolated tribesAn American adventurer, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was arrested for illegally entering North Sentinel Island, home to an uncontacted tr...
Foreign evangelists converting Islanders, says NCST ChiefThe NCST chief said that the commission would write to President Ram Nath Kovind about its findings and the need to restore tighter RAP nor...
US national killed in Andaman on planned adventure: NCST chief"Preliminary investigations suggest that it was a planned adventure trip by the American national, John Allen Chau. Investigation is still ...
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...
Navy looking at logistics support pact with RussiaOfficials said the pact will provide for a deeper naval cooperation, an increased engagement in the maritime security sphere, joint exercis...
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...
Anthropologists’ concern is to retrieve John Allen Chau’s bodyTen days since the reported death of John Allen Chau, a US missionary, on North Sentinel Island in an alleged attack by indigenous people, ...
- When British toyed with idea to unleash Gurkhas on Sentinelese
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.
Surprised the Sentinelese killed someone: First anthropologist to enter North Sentinel island"They are not hostile people. They warn; they don’t kill people, including outsiders. They only say, leave us alone," TN Pandit said.
ST panel opposed govt move to lift restrictions on tourists visiting Andamans“We had warned them, in fact, orally and through a letter too, that there was a reason that these islands, particularly the North Sentinel ...
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.
- Census operation begins next week
A massive multi-lingual media campaign is being launched to encourage people to get counted.