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 …
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 …
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 wonder herb from the Little Andamans - home to the Onge fribals found to be a sure-fire antidote to the deadly malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum, remains in zthe eye of the storm (Down To, Earth" Vol 4i No 16) :nd the imbroglio continues even as state governments in various …
THE Onges, a minor tribal community comprising of about 100 members, residing in the Little Andamans - one of the 300-odd islands in the Andaman and Nicobar island group - may soon emerge as the messiah for the steadily swelling ranks of malaria victims in the country and the world. …
On the Andaman islands, located in the Indian Ocean close to Burma and Indonesia, live the Onge, the indigenous negrito hunter-gathers of modern times. The Onge are one of 4 hunter-gatherer groups who occupy different islands of the archipelago. These groups have been separated long enough to have developed substantial …
