Dr Ratan Chandra Kar earned the Jarawa tribe’s trust and helped them survive a deadly measles outbreak, changing their future ...

Jarawas are a vulnerable group; they are believed to have been living on the islands of Andaman and Nicobar for the past 60,000 years.

Jarawas need to be immunised: DeoThe 2001 Census put the Jarawas count at 241. The tribe first came in contact with the civilisation in late 1997 when some Jarawas started coming out of their forest ...

The Jarawas who have minimal contact with outsiders were considered particularly vulnerable to the disease as the tribe has little medical help available to it at the best of times.

A call by health officials of the Union Territory administration to Dr Ratan Chandra Kar in 1998 to go into the areas inhabited by the ferocious and reclusive Jarawa tribe changed the life of the well ...

Once living in thousands in South and Middle Anaman islands, these aborigine Jarawas are now feared to be just around 400, with their habitat shrinking daily. The other three aborigine tribes of ...

Anthropologists speculate the Andaman islanders, including Jarawas, are remnants of the Negrito population once inhabiting much of east Asia.

The Indian government has asked YouTube to remove all videos related to Jarawas, a protected tribal group in the Andamans NCST's position is that YouTube videos on the tribal group “outrage the ...

NCST’s position is that YouTube videos on the tribal group “outrage the modesty of Jarawas without their knowledge”. The commission also wants that no content on the tribal group is posted in the ...

How the proposed rail line in Andamans can threaten the Jarawas The tiny Jarawa population, estimated to be about 430, is in danger if the govt in the name of building strategic assets construct a ...