PANAJI: India's only live volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has started spewing smoke and lava again.After lying dormant for 150 years, Barren Island volcano erupted in 1991 and has been showing sporadic activity since then, scientists of Goabased National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) said. "The volcano is erupting in small episodes of five to 10 minutes," Abhay Mudholkar, who is heading an NIO team which is collecting samples in the Andaman basin, said on Friday. "A few of these submarine volcanoes have been dredged for samples and a pumice type of light volcanic rock has been recovered. "The volcanic island is uninhabited and its northern part is, as the name suggests, barren and devoid of vegetation. Indian citizens can visit the island by chartered boats after obtaining permission from the forest department in Port Blair.

Source: Times of India February 18, 2017 19:25 UTC