This remote island is home to a tribe that has been living in voluntary isolation for tens of thousands of years.

The Indian government has distributed voter ... Activists said the island’s vulnerable tribes such as the Nicobarese and the Shompen face risks from exposure to external cultures and diseases.

Their language is unknown to outsiders, even to the Andaman tribes on neighbouring ... Ocean tsunami, the Indian National Coast used a helicopter to cruise over the island to see if the community ...

“This seemed to be deliberately designed to distract attention from the fact that the Indian government is planning to build a dangerous, and fundamentally undemocratic, mega project on the Shompen’s ...

The reason: Indian tribes are sovereign nations and ... an economic growth project for the Long Island tribe. The dispensary will likely be more welcome– that remains to be seen.