ANDAMAN &
NICOBAR
ISLAND NEWS
 

 

  

editor George Weber


 

 

Click on the YEARS to access all news items of that year.

 

Table of Contents

 

2007

28 November 2007
- Subsidised Tourism Worsens Andaman Woes

26 October 2007
- Immortalising vanishing tribes: collecting genetic data

15 October 2007
- Early Tsunami Warning System is set up

9 September 2007
- Is the Andaman Tourism Plan backfiring?

2006

11 September 2006
-
Petition presented to the Prime Minister of India and Sonja Gandhi 

July 2006
- Conflict with Jarawa as poachers overrun tribal land

May 2006
-
Jarawa tribe stricken by Measles epidemic

February 2006
- Malnutrition and high childhood mortality among the Onge

2005

12 December 2005
- India repatriates Burmese poachers to Myanmar

18 November 2005
- The controversial Tribal Forest Rights Bill
- How to create a panic? Very slowly!

7 October 2005
- Future stability of shore-line ecological systems

6 October 2005
- Revival of tourist Neill island, devastated by the tsunami

15-25 September 2005
- Nicobarese delegation at Conference in Austria - first in history

19 Jun 2005
- The Member of Parliament for the Islands writes to the Lt.Governor - and makes a fool of himself

25-29 May 2005
- Environmental debate about the A&N islands, with maps on the ecologicval disturbance in the Andamans

12 May 2005
- Pressure timber treatment plant commissioned at government saw mill, Chatham island

9 May 2005
- Lessons on Island Living: Indigenous knowledge saves the native Andamanese from the tsunami, but can it save them from settlers and rapacious development? by Madhusree Mukherjee

8 May 2005
-
Letter to the Lt.Governor: Villagers complain about unplanned and illogical development, with a rider by Denis Giles

5-7 May 2005
- Visit of president of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, to A&N islands

6 May 2005
- Raids on corrupt bureaucrats, including some on A&N islands

 

2004

26 Dec 2004
- Huge earthquake followed by tsunami causes major catastrophe

5 Jan 2004
- New Lt. Governor of the Andaman Islands inaugurated

 

2003

29 Dec 2003
- Jarawa girl seriously hurt on "closed" Andaman Trunk Road

19 Sep 2003
- 2003 monsoon rainfall: deficient in the Andamans but above average in mainland India

13 Aug 2003
- Volume of logging 1980-2002

10 August 2003
- Nicobar Tribal Council members Meet Prime Minister

28 May 2003
- Negrito Great Andamanese baby born

10 May 2003
- Unique animals on volcanic island near Great Andaman face problems

1 May 2003
- Jarawas attack bus passenger, snatch money

 

2002

2002
- Human remains: hassles for the scientists, bread for the masses 

 16 Aug 2002
-
Jarawa woman raped in Port Blair hospital

June 2002:
- AIDS in the Andamans
- Jarawa over-run by government anthropologists
-
Hepatitis B widespread among Jarawa

7 May 2002:
- Supreme Court Judgment backs SANE on Andaman environment

 

1995-99

26 Feb 1999
- Onge youth murdered

1997/98
- Settler dies in own "Jarawa-trap"

21 October 1997
- the Jarawa come out of the jungle - and throw the local settler population and administration into a panic

1995
- Shopkeepers use Jarawa as tourist attractions

 

 

 

   

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