Agriculture

Going Bananas

India gave bananas to the world and today it is the world's largest banana republic

Publication Date: 
22/05/2006
Seema Sirohi
Outlook (New Delhi)
Tags:
Eastern Ghats, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Western Ghats, Agricultural Systems, Banana, FAO, India
India

 Trespassers beware

Members of the world's most isolated tribe, the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands, killed two fishermen who had illegally approached their island on January 26, 2006. Sunder Raj and Pandit Tiwari

Publication Date: 
27/02/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Andaman Islands, Tribals, India
India

 A house for the islander

Illogical plans for post tsunami housing on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands omen trouble

Publication Date: 
29/11/2005
Sharbendu De
Down to Earth
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20051130
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Tags:
Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Tsunami, Disaster Housing, Housing Construction, NGO
India

 Africans or Asians?

Where did Andaman s indigenes originate?

Publication Date: 
14/11/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Tribals, Research, Africa
India

 Tsunami unravelled

New studies provide crucial lessons for predicting quakes

Publication Date: 
29/06/2005
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Earthquakes, Tsunami, Geology, Research, Asia, Indonesia
India

 The first Indians

Among the world s oldest indigenous populations, too

Publication Date: 
14/06/2005
T V Jayan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Tribals, Physical Science, Research, Scientists, India
India

 Small mercy

Andaman s tourism industry alive due to new phenomenon

Publication Date: 
14/04/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Tsunami, Tourism
Agriculture

 Prey again

Andaman villages now deal with crocodile menace

Publication Date: 
30/03/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Tsunami, Crocodiles
India

 Redundant relief?

Supreme Court order on tree felling in Andaman criticised

Publication Date: 
14/02/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Deforestation, Tsunami, Supreme Court
India

 In Court

Please act: The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Union government on January 3, 2004, in response to a petition by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) that seeks a thorough

Publication Date: 
30/01/2005
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Land Reforms, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Soft Drinks, Deforestation, Rehabilitation, Supreme Court, High Court, Karnataka

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