Over 4,000 hectares of mangrove forests on the Andaman and Nicobar islands was obliterated by the December 26, 2004 tsunami, Union Minister for Environment and Forests A. Raja said in Chennai on
India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, devastated by last year's tsunami, were shaken by a strong quake on Sunday but fears of new killer waves hitting the Indian Ocean archipelago proved unfounded.
A strong earthquake last night shook India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, prompting Thailand to briefly issue an emergency warning to six coastal areas. The quake, which measured 7.2 on the Richter
Mangroves are salt tolerant plants that occur between 32°N and 38°S latitudes. Mangroves play an important role in stabilizing shoreline and protect the coast against storm surges and heavy tides. Though
This article is an attempt to assess possible changes in the climate of Port Blair, the capital of the Union territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
<p>More than half of the children in 10 out of 15 states are still anaemic shows National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) for 2015-16 released by the Union Health Ministry today said. It also showed that more than half of women were anaemic in eleven states .</p>
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still seen as tourist havens, even after being ravaged by the tsunami in December 2004. The tourism policy of Andaman and Nicobar Island 2003 listed its objectives
Although widely distributed, little is known about the dugong in most of the areas of occurrence. In India, information about the animal is patchy and restricted to sighting, stranding and mortality records.
If last December's tsunami virtually wiped off Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the tourism map, another natural phenomenon now holds the promise of bringing visitors back in droves. The
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal are home to six tribal groups: the Nicobarese, the Shompens, the Great Andamanese, Onges, Sentinalese and the Jarawas. These tribals with the exception of the Nicobarese are on the brink of extincti
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which are free from severe anthropogenic pressures, can be developed as the 'Organic Islands' of the world, according to the Action Plan for Development of
The tsunami that swept across South East Asia last December 26 has brought the Andaman and Nicobar Islands closer to the mainland by at least three metres, according to a senior government official.
The unusually high tides along the coasts of Kakinada and Visakha-patnam during the past two months, are being linked to underground tectonic plate activity around Andaman and Nicobar islands and off
The agricultural land In tsunami affected Tamil Nadu , Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands is likely to remain infertile and uncultivable for the next five to six years due to saline water which
The National Commission on Farmers (NCF) is preparing a strategy for organic farming in the country. It has also programmes to make the post-tsunami Andaman and Nicobar Islands as the largest organic
The government wants the Andamans and Nicobar islands to be rebuilt after December 26 tsunami as an ideal island township with modern infrastructure. The project would need about Rs. 3,000 crores, as
The earthquake that triggered Asia's tsunami has moved, twisted and tilted India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, raising some out of sea and sinking large parts of others. Shifts in tectonic plates
Deliberately or inadvertently, the Indian government may have seriously underestimated the tsunami death toll from the Andaman and Nicobar islands, local leaders as well as aid groups said.
Stone age tribes living on India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands not only survived the devastating 26 December tsunami - triggered by an undersea quake whose epicentre was closest to their
The earthquake-triggered tsunami has caused an "anti-clockwise twist' to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where sea beaches have vanished and land has sunk so much that it is likely to remain a part
