FILE - In this undated file photo released by the Anthropological Survey of India, a Jarawa tribe boy, one of the five tribes in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, stands in front of the camera.

Nine children of Onge tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), in Andaman and Nicobar Islands have cleared the CBSE class 10 board examination and have taken admission in Class 11, an ...

India’s plans for “development” on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are threatening the survival of the archipelago’s already endangered indigenous populations. One of the projects that has been ...

Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday upheld the maintainability of a PIL alleging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar infrastructure project and observed that "the tribal population in ...

The World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest is among four national parks to be handed back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people. The vulnerable tribal groups of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are ...

Overhead view of North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation.

Tribal communities in Great Nicobar are not opposed to development but lack sufficient information about a proposed mega infrastructure project on the island, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes ...

Authorities are considering a non-invasive thermal survey to count the isolated Sentinelese tribe. A pre-test of house listing and housing census is planned in October–November 2025 across all ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A video showing women of the Jarawa, an endangered tribe in the Andaman islands, dancing half-naked as tourists threw biscuits and bananas, created a media furore in India on ...