Port Blair, Nov. 16: Shri Vishal Jolly National Executive Member BJP & Former State President BJP-ANI wrote a letter to the Hon'ble Lt. Governor, A&N Islands for releasing of funds as compensation to fire victims and also make necessary arrangements for their temporary stay and rehabilitation.

In his letter Jolly wrote that a massive fire accident that rocked Port Blair on Diwali day i.e. 12th November, 2023, which caused colossal of damage to the properties belonging to the fire victims and stressed about the following points on incidents: -

Port Blair, Nov. 16: CITU, A&N State Committee organized mass demonstration, procession and public meeting today (16.11.2023) at Port Blair on various issues of workers like (i) Immediate revision of minimum wages for scheduled employment (ii) Against anti-labour actions of Labour Department (iii) Restore Sunday wages to 1/30th pay daily rated mazdoors (iv) Against price rise, etc. Hundreds of workers assembled in front of the office of the Labour Commissioner and staged a mass demonstration condemning the inaction on the part of the Labour Department on revision of minimum wages and anti-labour actions of officers of Labour Department. After staging mass demonstration, the workers took out a huge procession in the Port Blair town which culminated in a public meeting at Tiranga Park, Aberdeen Bazar. 

Port Blair, Nov. 16: The 27th Edition of WAIPA’s World Investment Conference 2023 (WIC), one of the biggest Global Investment Conference will be taking place at IICC New Delhi (Yasho Bhoomi), India from Dec. 11 to 14, 2023.  Setting the stage for the WIC 2023, dedicated pitching sessions have been curated for Startups (Indian & global) from sectors such as Health Tech. & Life Sciences, Electric Vehicles & Clean Technology, Agri-tech, Artificial Intelligence & Deep Tech., to showcase their business models and innovative technologies to prospective investors, to be held virtually on Nov.21, 24, 25 and 28, 2023. The selected Startups will be informed about the program details.

Port Blair, Nov. 16: In continuation of its fight against drugs, acting on a specific intelligence input, Police Team from Narcotics Cell, CID Unit consisting of Inspector S. Kannan, SI Mohd. Rahil Islam, ASI Sanjay Yadav, HC/1176 Sharfudeen, PC/1173 Ratan Das, PC/2772 Nandita Mistry, PC/2871 Vishal Kumar and PC/2836 M. Raja Rao under the supervision of Shri Vinay Mathur, DANIPS, Dy.SP, Narcotics intercepted one person namely Ashis Majhi (36)yrs, S/o Late Khagen Majhi, R/o Subash Gram, 5, North & Middle Andaman, Diglipur who had arrived at Port Blair from Kolkata on 15/11/2023 by Spice Jet flight. Total 5.277 Kgs of Ganja which was clandestinely concealed in his bag, was seized from him and the said person was arrested on the spot observing all codal formalities.

Port Blair, Nov. 16: The State Institute of Education, Port Blair will be conducting the NMMSS Examination in A&N Islands on Dec. 29, 2023 under the guidance of Ministry of Education (MoE). The Selection Test/ Examination will be conducted to select students presently studying in Class VIII (Eight) for award of Scholarship under the centrally sponsored scheme National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS) for the academic session 2023-2024.