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

The stakes are high, and conflict is escalating. The tussles are over rare metals, ores, timber, space – and the right to be left alone.

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

Urban centers like Delhi and Mumbai will continue to experience high population pressures, requiring better planning and ...

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 ...

While Muslims describe themselves as the followers of Prophet Muhammad, the holy Quran describes a Muslim as someone who ...

The Great Nicobar Island (GNI) infrastructure project was conceived by NITI ... PVTGs are a sub-classification of the Scheduled Tribes (STs) or a section of STs who are considered more vulnerable than ...

Sacred Forests of India and its Cultural Tapestry  Imagine a forest where cutting a tree is forbidden not by law, but by faith! In India, forests are more than natural landscapes; they are living ...

His own tribe, Al-Gaddafi, was just one of the 20 ... (The writer is Lt Gen PVSM, AVSM (Retd), and former Lt Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Puducherry) ...

Even though fragmented by local struggles for power between different tribes, the Zagros range of mountains that form the heartland of a hypothetical Kurdistan, home to Kurds of different ...