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Upon learning about Chau's death, the fishermen returned to Port Blair and gave Chau's diary to his friend, also a Christian preacher, residing in the capital city. [20] He informed Chau's family in the U.S., who contacted the Consulate General of the United States in Chennai for assistance. [20] The Andaman government was notified on November ...
The list is compiled from the 2020 Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Government of India. [ 1 ] In 2015, the top three States with highest suicide rates were Puducherry , Sikkim and Andaman and Nicobar Islands respectively, while Bihar recorded lowest suicide rates.
The capital city of the Andaman Islands, Port Blair. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory. The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district (the Nicobar Islands were separated and established as the new Nicobar district in ...
The Andaman Islands, although part of British India, was occupied by the Japanese without resistance. The Japanese maintained a hefty garrison on the islands until the end of World War II. They wanted to use the Andaman Islands as a strategic outpost on the eastern edge of the Indian Ocean, and use it as a naval base.
The islands were just north of the earthquake epicentre, and the tsunami reached a height of 15 metres (49 ft) in the southern Nicobar Islands. The official death toll was 1,310, with about 5,600 missing. The unofficial death toll (including those missing and presumed dead) was estimated at 7,000.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration announced a 100,000 Indian Rupee ex-gratia payment to the family of the deceased tourists. [2] India's then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa expressed their grief over the accident, while Jayalalithaa also announced a compensation of 100,000 Indian Rupees each to the families of dead. [6]
The Andaman Islands were moderately affected while the island of Little Andaman and the Nicobar Islands were severely affected by the tsunami. In South Andaman Island , based on local eyewitnesses, there were three tsunami waves, with the third being the most destructive.
South Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.It is 1.6 km (1 mi) long northeast to southwest and up to 1 km (5 ⁄ 8 mi) wide. At only 1.61 km 2 (5 ⁄ 8 sq mi), it is much smaller than its counterpart North Sentinel Island and is currently uninhabited.