Another reclusive tribe, the Shompens, have become a cause for concern. Enough to make Lieutenant General B.S. Thakur, GOC-in-C, Andaman and Nicobar, order a special mission to the Great Nicobar ...

Luke Harding reports from Port Blair on the remote Andaman Islands Luke Harding reports from Port Blair on the remote Andaman Islands They have survived for thousands of years in one of the world's ...

The Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) has come up with the first authentic demographic database of the Shompen tribe — one of the least known particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) in the ...

They have survived for thousands of years in one of the world's most isolated areas. But at least two of the Stone Age aboriginal tribes that live on the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been ...

Shompens, one of the last surviving aboriginal tribes in the tsunami-battered Andaman and Nicobar islands have no clue about the whereabouts of nine of their kin after the tsunami, but the devastation ...

The beautiful and serene islands of Andaman and Nicobar have been devastated. There are chances that some of the rare tribes living in these islands may have perished due to the tsunami waves that hit ...

PORT BLAIR: Govt says the endangered tribes weren't affected by tsunami that killed over a lakh. PORT BLAIR: The Andaman and Nicobar administration on Friday said all aboriginal tribes, including ...

Campbell Bay (Great Nicobar), Dec. 20: Shompen Mug is probably dead. So are his wife and two children and five others from his tribe. When the sea roared in that fateful morning after Christmas last ...

NEW DELHI: Tsunami may have wiped out tribes, already threatened by precariously small numbers. <div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript ...

As one of the first Coast Guard helicopters with relief supplies for the tsunami victims slowed over the Indian Andaman and Nicobar islands to assess the damage, a lone tribesman sent a message from ...