​The Great Nicobar Island (GNI) Project is a mega-infrastructure initiative spearheaded by NITI Aayog. It features four integrated pillars: an International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) at ...

The Tribunal upheld the ₹92,000-crore project citing strategic importance, even as experts flagged gaps in environmental scrutiny, legal safeguards, and the protection of vulnerable tribal communities ...

The NGT has approved the Rs 80,000 crore mega project despite ecological and tribal concerns, citing strategic importance and environmental safeguards.

Whether the Great Nicobar Project is a ‘net good’ can only be judged by future generations, but the lack of a process that offers a fair appraisal of independent concerns bodes ill for the present ...

Great Nicobar is an ecologically rich, remote and sparsely populated island. The mega project will severely affect its forests, wildlife and indigenous communities.

NGT refused to interfere with environmental clearance granted in November 2022, citing project's strategic national importance, "adequate safeguards" ...

India’s environmental court has given the go-ahead to the strategically significant Great Nicobar infrastructure project despite widespread concerns of ecological damage to the island in the Andaman ...

Few regions in India illustrate the complex interplay between development, national security and environmental protection as clearly as the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Stretching over 800 kilometres in ...

The Andaman and Nicobar archipelago has long been seen within India as key to countering China's growing influence in the ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has refused to interfere with the environmental clearance for the Rs 81,000 crore Great Nicobar project. This effectively removes a major legal hurdle and allows the ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has cleared the proposed International Container Transhipment Terminal in Great Nicobar ...