Andaman Islands

The south-west monsoon has missed its date of onset over Andaman Sea, the first port of call in the Indian territorial waters. The normal timeline for the onset here is May 15 to 20; this passed on Sunday.  

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A few thousand people have been evacuated to higher ground from parts of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands on Wednesday following the two massive earthquakes off the coast of Indonesia. Andaman and Nicobar prepared for tsunami waves up to 3.9 meters high, officials said, as cited by Emirates 24/7. ...  

A road at the centre of a ‘human safari’ scandal in the Andaman Islands is still open, exactly ten years after India’s Supreme Court ordered its closure. A road at the centre of a ‘human safari’ scandal in the Andaman Islands is still open, exactly ten years after India’s Supreme Court ordered its closure. The Andaman Trunk Road (ATR) cuts...  

Paradoxically, it was damage caused by the 2004 tsunami and the subsequent government investment for rehabilitation that helped spawn a tourism industry in the Indian territory. (Tourism investment, in fact, has been aimed solely at the Andamans ...  

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of parliament Tarun Vijay Friday said that the residents of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were facing a shortage of drinking water and demanded construction of a reservoir and a desalination plant to meet the...  

His center recommends that people stay off until at least two hours after the alert is withdrawn. “But that’s a call they (local officials ... removing the alert for the east coast of India as well as the warning for Andaman and Nicobar ...  

A tremor with moderate intensity shook parts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Wednesday. No injury or casualty has been reported. The epicentre of the tremor measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale was between Little Andaman and Car Nicobar, said disaster management director Ashok Sharma. The earthquake occurred at 1.12 PM and originated at a depth of 10 km, he said. USGS data  

Port Blair, Apr 4 (PTI) Working president of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Trinamool Congress Committee, Rupa Ray today tendered resignation from the post today blaming the party's state unit chief for it. Ray told PTI that the president of TC Andaman and ...  

Port Blair, Apr 03 (PTI) In order to ensure punctuality, biometric attendance system has been installed at Raj Niwas as well as the secretariat in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Chief Secretary Shakti Sinha, the secretary to Lt Governor launched the system ...  

A fierce earthquake from the Nicobar Islands could strike over Songkran, sending a tsunami crashing into the Andaman Coast, an expert warned yesterday after finding that the 8.6-magnitude Sumatran tre .....  

They believe in an anthropomorphic deity called puluga, who brought about the cataclysm which engulfed the islands and separated the population. and hence so many islands. According to another legend, it was Maia Tomola, the ancestral chief of ...  

"Hailstorm is a normal feature in April and May. The low pressure trough formed over Bay of Bengal brings sufficient moisture to the region and when this is accompanied by high temperature, cumulonimbus clouds are formed, leading to a hailstorm," said Sarkar.  

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For decades the islanders of Shweri Chai, a speck of land in the Bay of Bengal, have extracted oil using makeshift pulleys to draw the reddish liquid from the ground.