An American tourist made an illicit visit to a dangerous, isolated tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands — only to be totally ignored by the people, who have had no contact with the outside world ...

American YouTuber who entered island of isolated Indian tribe has bail plea rejected - Mykhailo Polyakov faces up to five ...

An American tourist has been arrested after allegedly traveling to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal and attempting to contact one of the world’s most isolated tribes.

Left, An undated picture of US national Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov who was arrested by the CID on March 31 for allegedly ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island — part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar ...

North Sentinel Island, home to the isolated Sentinelese tribe, remains strictly off-limits to protect its inhabitants. A recent incident involved a US ...

Overhead view of North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation.

Indians and foreigners alike are prohibited from traveling within 5km (3 miles) of the island to protect the indigenous people from external diseases and safeguard their way of life. Andaman and ...

After the arrest of an American tourist from India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, fears have increased about the threat to the world’s most dangerous tribe. This is because it is feared that ...

While Polyakov successfully reached the island, he does not appear to have made contact with the Sentinelese tribe, Jitendra Kumar Meena, head of the Andaman and Nicobar Police’s Criminal ...