What ails the Jarawas
Around 50 children and many adults of an isolated tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar islands have contracted measles in the past month, says a bbc report. That works out to around 20 per cent of the
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8 earthquakes jolt Andaman & Nicobar
Though the quakes measured around five or more on the Richter Scale, there was no tsunami alert Eight earthquakes, including two major ones, struck the Andaman and Nicobar islands in a span of eight
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State to have highest MNREGS wages
With the financial year starting on April 1, villagers working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) will get Rs 191 per day as wages. The wages for Haryana under
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Ground Zero
It is the saga of callous and pathetic implementation of relief I work and rehabilitation of the tsunami-affected. The tsunami I that hit the Indian coastline on the morning of December 26, 12004, swept away 1,089 villages, claimed over 10,273 lives I and rendered 2,39,024 families homeless. By all accounts, it was the biggest natural calamity to hit India.
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Andaman outlay at Rs 1,120 cr
The annual Plan size of Andaman & Nicobar Island for the next fiscal year has been determined at Rs 1,120 crore at a meeting between the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Mr Montek Singh
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Uneven rainfall
THE total seasonal rainfall during the year's southwest monsoon (June 1 to September 30) for the country as a whole was 99 per cent of its long-period average (LPA), which, being within plus or minus 10 per cent of the LPA, can be termed as a `normal' monsoon.
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Bamboo resources of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India
Andaman & Nicobar Islands is the largest archipelago system consisting of over 200 islands, over 300 inlets and constitute one of the hotspot of biodiversity. 3,552 plant species are known from these islands. As regards bamboos not much work has been done because most of the areas are unexplored.
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Taking sting out of Chikungunya
Scientists begin work on vaccine in Port Blair scientists at the Regional Medical Research Centre (rmrc) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are all set to begin work on developing a vaccine against Chikungunya, a viral infection that killed over 80 people in India in 2006.
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Selling birds nest soup to save this bird: theres a change in law
To save a bird, its nest will now be sold. In an unusual conservation strategy, the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) has delisted the Edible Nest Swiftlet, a cave-nesting bird found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, from the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA).
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Surface waves cause tremors from distant earthquake, says scientist
Sunday's earthquake, 420 km south of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, was felt in certain parts of Chennai and others on the eastern coast. "It is very simple," said R.K. Chadha,
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Kalam's vision for Andamans
Sanjib Kumar Roy ISLAND PURA: ABDUL KALAM' S VISION FOR ANDAMANSEXTENDING his dream plan of PURA (providing urban amenities in rural areas) to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam said that he visualised Island PURA for the welfare and better employment opportunities of islanders.
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Amendment in ICRZ Notification, 2019
The notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change number S.O. 1242(E), dated the 8th March, 2019 [hereinafter referred to as the Island Coastal Regulation
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Road row
No solution in sight
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A house for the islander
Illogical plans for post tsunami housing on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands omen trouble
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The first Indians
Among the world s oldest indigenous populations, too
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Disaster plan for islands
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) will prepare a detailed disaster plan for each of the 340 islands of Andaman and Nicobar and 32 islands of Lakshadweep. Called the "Integrated Island Management Plan", these islands, now under the new Island Protection Zone Notification, will no longer fall under the management of the Coastal Regulation Zone notification.
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms in two genes among the Jarawa, a primitive tribe of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Discovery and validation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human genome is an active area of interest, because of their usefulness in evolutionary and disease-association studies. The researchers
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Coral reefs could be extinct by 2050
Coral reefs the world over are showing signs of bleaching, largely due to global warming, and could become extinct by 2050, warn researchers. A sample survey of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands shows
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Turvy topsy
Has the earth really wobbled?
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Brick by brick
Even as relief work continues in areas devastated by the tsunami, the corpus of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund has quietly swelled to around Rs 500 crore. The money is said to be the largest corpus ever collected through the fund. This is just money that has been sent as Demand Drafts. "Cheques still need to be processed and taken into account," said a PMO official.