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Wonder whether the Navy would be pleased with it. Transshipment is a sensitive matter, especially around islands under the navy's de facto command.

The idea to transform this into another Singapore would require the government to make a completely different set of rules for the Greater Nicobar (GN) project. Is the IAS babudom prepared to make that change? GN would need to be modelled along the lines of Hong Kong in order for it to flourish...

Let me make this clear; I am not against infrastructure development - I am against making it in an ecologically-sensitive area which will lead to wanton destruction of the environment. There are plenty of coastal regions in the peninsular Indian lands that could be available as...

I haven't really studied the topography in detail but from whatever limited I know, the islands are not naturally deep-water harbours. Which means that a lot environmental hell would have to be unleashed to make them deep-water container ports. Development is welcome but as an Indian from an...

It SHOULD NOT look like Singapore or Hong Kong. Do you know the amount of ecological damage these countries have done to their biosphere? Horrible. Singapore doesn't have to worry about coral reefs because it's a deep-water island (hence you can see ships being parked so close to the coast). A...