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

The Great Nicobar Island Development Project feels like a violation of their rights, he says. ‘They don’t have the needs we ...

Union Minister Jual Oram asserts in Parliament that no objections were received from tribal councils or activists regarding ...

The island is a remote place ... though Portman conducted anthropological research on other Andamanese tribes (seen below). A decade later, in 1991, an Indian anthropologist named Madhumala ...

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 ...

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

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

Speaking during Question Hour, Oram said the project — involving construction of a transshipment port, an airport, a gas ...

There are serious concerns about the survival of a remote tribe who live on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean after plans were announced to transform it into a "Hong Kong of India".

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 ...