The plea challenges the legal sanction to divert the forest area of the indigenous community towards the massive ...

Activists said the island’s vulnerable tribes such as the Nicobarese and the Shompen face risks from exposure to external cultures and diseases. The Independent reached out to senior officials ...

The secluded Shompen tribe, who "inhabit the interior of the island's lush forests" and have done so for thousands of years, are "illiterate by modern standards" but are "self-sufficient", having ...

They are one of five "particularly vulnerable" tribes across the Nicobar and Andaman islands chain, but the only one on Great Nicobar. Very few of the Shompen have ever had contact with the ...

the Shompen - some 400 people - of the Great Nicobar Islands are also at risk of losing their way of life due to external pressures. A nomadic tribe, most of them live deep inside the forest where ...

An infrastructure project aims to turn the home to remote Indigenous tribes into a Hong Kong-like industrial port city that could see the local population increase by 8,000 per cent. Activists ...

Jarawas are one of five tribes inhabiting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and are ranked as “particularly vulnerable” by the Anthropological Survey of India. The others are the North Sentinelese, ...