Indian islanders fend off starvation
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Tsunami survivors on the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales Thursday of going without food after fleeing mammoth waves that smashed their villages
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Aftershocks continued to rattle the Andaman and Nicobar islands far off India&#39;s eastern coast, as authorities rushed drinking water, food and medicines to thousands of survivors of massive tidal waves that devoured at least
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An 18-year-old woman is rescued from India's Andaman islands after surviving for 45 days on fruit.
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Thousands of Andaman and Nicobar islanders are missing, feared killed by last week's deadly tsunami, but few bodies have been located so far, Indian officials on the remote archipelago said.
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PORT BLAIR, India: Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands today.
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A few weeks ago, the crew of an Indian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea thought they had the biggest catch of their lives.
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A victim of last month's tsunamis was rescued after surviving alone for 26 days on a partially submerged island in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, the Indian navy said.
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Rescuers search for thousands still missing in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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MADRAS, India, Dec. 26 -- On a balmy Sunday morning at Marina Beach, Brajita Poulose, 45, her husband, two sons and four other relatives strolled along the shore in the sunshine, enjoying the ocean breeze. Young men were playing cricket, joggers trotted past food vendors, fishermen hauled in their nets. Then, without warning, the placid ocean turned violent.
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Bureaucratic bungling has blocked food and medicine from reaching 70 percent of Sri Lankans left destitute by the tsunami, a government official said Wednesday, while nine survivors of the disaster were found deep in a jungle on a remote Indian island.
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Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing.
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Rescuers have begun reaching India&#39;s remote Andaman and Nicobar islands to find barely a third of residents on one isle still alive two days after a devastating tsunami.
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Millions of people on Indian Ocean shores scrambled for food and clean water on Thursday, with disease and hunger now the main threats stalking
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JIRKATANG, India -- Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest habitat yesterday for the first time since the Dec. 26 tsunami and earthquakes that rocked the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and in a rare interaction with outsiders announced that all 250 of their fellow tribespeople had survived.
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Rescuers in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago  believe half the population of one island is missing.
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India's refusal to allow access to the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is preventing aid from reaching the most desperate survivors of last week's tsunamis, international aid groups said Monday, as the country's death toll was expected to top 15,000.
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A GLIMMER of hope emerged in the Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday as people previously counted as dead emerged from the sanctuary of what little high ground there is in the remote Indian island chain.