The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
KOCHI: The Coast Guard on Wednesday night apprehended 24 Myanmarese poachers off the Andaman and Nicobar islands, taking the total number of poachers arrested during the last 20 days to 88. It also seized seven boats used by the marauders, including two on Wednesday. According to a Coast Guard media …
Food habits, tobacco consumption and alcohol dependence is taking a toll on the tribal population across the country that is falling prey to hypertension, considered to be lifestyle disease of the urban elites. A population-based study conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research over the last few months found …
B. Aravind Kumar Chennai: Protecting indigenous tribes, preserving the fragile ecology, providing basic amenities such as drinking water and preventing illegal migration and encroachments are some of the main challenges confronting Andaman & Nicobar Islands. In an interaction with journalists at The Hindu on Monday, editors of newspapers and magazines …
Chennai/New Delhi: A string of earthquakes jolted the Andaman and Nicobar Islands over a 12-hour period on Sunday. The tremors were also felt in southern and eastern India. There was some panic but no casualties or property damage anywhere, officials said. By Sunday evening, life returned to normal in the …
BHUBANESWAR: At about 12.53 am on Sunday, denizens of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack woke up with a start. A mild tremor had shaken them out of their slumber, sending a chill down the spines. For it was the third tremor people have felt in the last one month. The earthquake measured …
Chennai/New Delhi: A string of earthquakes jolted the Andaman and Nicobar Islands over a 12-hour period on Sunday. The tremors were also felt in southern and eastern India. There was some panic but no casualty or property damage anywhere, officials said. By evening, life returned to normal in the islands. …
DURAI slept soundly through tremors that were felt in the city early Sunday morning that were set off by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake off the Nicobar coast. A fisherman residing in Srinivasapuram, which is close to the sea, he dismissed fears of a tsunami such as the one in 2004. …
Chennai/New Delhi: The coastal districts in Tamil Nadu were on high alert on Sunday afternoon following an earthquake off Sumatra although the Union government as well as the scientists ruled out a tsunami threat to the Indian mainland or the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The government said there wasn
New Delhi: Two low-intensity earthquakes measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale hit Himachal-Punjab border and the Nicobar islands on Sunday but no damage to property or life was reported. The first quake shook the Nicobar Islands at 8-13 a.m. with its epicentre at a latitude of 8.6 degrees north and …
Coral reefs, the most diverse marine habitat that support half-a-million species, may start losing dominance from Indian seas starting 2030 following increase in sea temperature, says a new study. Scientists from the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin studied the coral vulnerability due to warming of Indian seas reef regions …
Amid concerns over the adverse impact of unchecked construction activities in the ecologically sensitive coastal zones of the country, the Environment Ministry on Tuesday came out with a new set of
From solar lanterns to solar technology-run ATMs, from traffic and streetlights to railway signals, Tata BP Solar (Established 1989) now wants to light up 10 million households across India and generate 20,000 MW of solar power by 2020. In a country with over 300 sunny days across the country, leveraging …
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are strung out in isolated emerald splendour across the Bay of Bengal. It is their inaccessibility that has helped put them on the global genetic map. Lalji Singh, former director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), for one believes that the islands' dwindling tribal …
SUMIR KAUL The North Korean ship, which was detained by the Coast Guard after a chase in Andaman and Nicobar Island, had no traces of chemical, biological, radioactive or nuclear material, two nuclear scientists said on Sunday in their final report. After critically examining the ship MV Mu San at …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Bringing relief to the fishing community which feared displacement, the government on Friday announced that the draft Coastal Management Zone (CMZ) Notification, 2008 would be allowed to lapse on July 22. Instead, the existing Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 1991, will be amended to take into …
? A massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit Indonesia off the west coast of Sumatra on the morning of December 26,2004, at 6:58 a.m. Another earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred 81km west of Pulo Kunji (Great Nicobar, India) at 9:51 a.m. on the same day. The earthquakes set off giant …
Pune: For the first time, ornithologists have found that sunbirds in the tsunami-affected Nicobar Islands have adapted to the devastation by using live electric wires as anchors for their nests. The natural habitat destruction has led to this
A tribunal finds the rehabilitation of victims of the tsunami in most affected regions far from satisfactory. Four years after the December 26 tsunami brought death and destruction of an unprecedented magnitude to at least three States and two Union Territories, thousands of survivors are still on the streets, literally. …
Port Blair: Much to the cheers of Onges, an aboriginal tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with only 92 members, a boy was born to the community at a hospital here, doctors said on Monday.
The 2004 calamity marked the beginning of a new chapter in the lives of those who lost their homes, fish boats, and much else. Anticipatory action plans for managing the consequences of seawater intrusion in our coastal areas have become an imperative. The tsunami of December 26, 2004 was a …
