What distinguishes this coffee-table book on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are its stunning photographs. However, ...

North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian government has ...

India is investing billions in developing the strategically located island chain. The vulnerable tribal groups of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are already on the verge of extinction.

As a protected island, even the Indian Navy isn’t allowed to interact with its inhabitants. Andaman and Nicobar islands ... “Well I have been shot by the Sentinelese... By a kid probably ...

Mr Justin, an anthropologist, has grown up in the Andaman and Nicobar islands straddling India’s east coast ... These include the Jarawas, North Sentinelese, Great Andamanese, Onge, and Shompen.

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The BBC has contacted the Indian government for comment. A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Researchers from the Calcutta-headquartered Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified 23 species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the Culicoides genus in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, ...