Great Nicobar

🇮🇳 🤖 Reality check at India’s AI summit – Southasia Weekly #106

Hype vs reality at India’s AI summit, Sri Lanka eliminates pensions for MPs, explosions and a gun battle in northwest Pakistan and more

By Raisa Wickrematunge

/ 23 Feb 2026

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State of Southasia #13: Pankaj Sekhsaria on India’s Great Nicobar misadventure

Environmental researcher Pankaj Sekhsaria says that large-scale disruptions to a geologically sensitive region like Great Nicobar puts ecology, infrastructure, indigenous people and migrants to the island at significant risk.

By The Editors

/ 18 Nov 2024

A Giant Leatherback Turtle laying its eggs on a beach within a bay on the Great Nicobar Islands. In view is foliage along the