Union Minister Jual Oram asserts in Parliament that no objections were received from tribal councils or activists regarding ...

India is pressing ahead with a container terminal on a remote Indian Ocean island chain. Its location along the Malacca ...

In the ongoing parliamentary session, a question was once again raised about the Great Nicobar Infrastructure Project. What ...

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

over effect of environmental and forest clearances granted for the Great Nicobar project on local tribal communities. Gokhale also said there are only 229 members of the Shompen tribe living in the ...

Illinois last month had delayed signing paperwork with the Army Corps of Engineers, citing “uncertainty” of funding from the Trump administration.

The Tribal Council of Little Nicobar and Great Nicobar has objected to the diversion of certain areas currently reserved for ...

Opposition MPs question government on environmental clearances for Great Nicobar Island project, tribal consent withdrawal, ...

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Tribal affairs minister Jual Oram told the Rajya Sabha in response to Congress’ Jairam Ramesh and TMC’s Saket Gokhale that no objection from any anthropologist was "available" to the GoI ...

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

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 ...