Opposition leaders, including TMC’s Saket Gokhale and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, questioned the minister on the ...

There will be no environmental impact and no tribal will be displaced due to the Great Nicobar project, Tribal Affairs ...

Speaking during Question Hour, Oram said the project — involving construction of a transshipment port, an airport, a gas ...

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 ...

Gokhale also said there are only 229 members of the Shompen tribe living in the world. Oram said after the Tsunami struck the island, because of low-lying area, several tribals had shifted out. A high ...

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 ...

MP Saket Gokhale questioned the government’s stance, pointing out that the assessment was prepared at the request of the ...

There will be no environmental impact and no tribal will be displaced due to the Great Nicobar project, Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram said in the Rajya Sabha while asserting that the project is ...