India's Tribal People Safe After Tsunami-Official
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India's dwindling aboriginal population in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is safe as most lived in jungles, far away from the coast hit by a devastating tsunami, a coast guard official said on Thursday.
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Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest habitat Thursday 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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PORT BLAIR -- A 10-year-old Indian girl survived for four days alone in the jungle, living off berries and coconuts, after the tsunami swept away her family when it smashed into the Andaman and Nicobar islands. "She is very much in shock. She says a few words and goes into silence," said federal lawmaker Manoranjan Bakhta, who described the girl's ...
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The government of northeastern Indian state of Assam hailed Saturday the decision by an influential tribal separatist group to agree to a cease-fire and hold peace talks with New Delhi.
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Police say at least 5,000 people are believed to have been killed by the weekend tsunami that struck the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Press Trust (PTI) of India reported on Tuesday.
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BAND ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Deputy Defense  Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said U.S. military forces, in the  forefront of the Indian Ocean tsunami emergency relief effort,  will stay on to help rebuild shattered communities.
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An Indian man is rescued 25 days after being thrown by the tsunami on a remote island, the navy says.
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India's government has pledged money to  improve safety at the site of a stampede and fire at a Hindu  temple in western India that killed more than 250 people on an  annual pilgrimage.
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Scientists say the death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced if India and Sri Lanka had been part of an international system designed to warn coastal communities about potentially deadly waves.
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One of the world's last remaining Stone Age hunter-gatherer tribes survived the Asian tsunami, but the damage caused to their habitat may eventually wipe them out, experts said.
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Mohammed Shaheen, who survived the tsunami that devastated India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, stands outside a relief camp as Christian and Hindu groups argue over who would run it.
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PONDICHERRY/MADRAS, India  - Thousands of  villagers huddled inside emergency shelters on India's  southeast coast, too scared to sleep in case a tsunami that  killed up to 3,300 people strikes again.
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Thousands of tsunami victims  on India&#39;s remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago are still  living in temporary shelters almost three years after the  devastating December 2004 tsunami washed away their homes.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  up to 3,000 people.
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India's ambassador to Washington,    Ronen Sen , said yesterday that his country was able to handle its relief effort on its own following last month's tsunami in the Indian Ocean, which hit his country and 11 others, killing more than 150,000 people.
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India was 1 of only 3 nations where a majority said the world was safer because of his reelection, according to a new poll.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  about 2,000 people.