A new study has revealed that one of Lakshadweep's bio-diversity rich islands Parali I has vanished. Thankfully, it was uninhabited. However, four other territories in the sea are also shrinking.

RM Hidayathulla, from Lakshadweep's Androth, has made this observation in his PhD thesis that studies coastal erosion in some Lakshadweep islands.

Read on to know what his other revelations were.