Port Blair, Jan 25: National Girl Child Day, an initiative of the ministry of women and child development, is celebrated every year on January 24th to spread awareness about the challenges that girls face. “Girls are the architects of change, and their dreams have the power to transform societies”.

In order to support and uplift every girl’s aspirations, Pankh organised a session that was held for the inmates of Bethany Home, Garacharma. A sketching competition to depict their dreams on paper for the girls at RGT Public School, RGT Road was also organised.

Port Blair, Jan 25: On the auspicious occasion of National Voters Day, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha along with BJP State Unit and all the Morchas of BJP organized Namo Nav Matdata Sammelan in B R Ambedkar Auditorium, PBMC, Aberdeen Bazar on 25/1/2024 at 10:30 am.

In the Namo Nav Matdata Sammelan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with more than 1700 New Voters from Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The enthusiasm of the New Voters to hear our beloved Prime Minister was unparalleled to any such events happened across the Islands.

Port Blair, Jan 25: The 14th National Voters Day with the theme 'Nothing like voting, I vote for sure' was celebrated in A&N Islands today. To mark the Day, a UT level function was organized in TGCE auditorium in which the Chief Electoral Officer, A&N Islands, Shri B.S. Jaglan, IAS, was the chief guest. EPIC to newly registered voters was also issued and pledge on NVD was administered by the CEO to the gathering in the presence of District Election Officer, South Andaman, Ms. Veditha Reddy, IAS, Joint CEO, Shri Dilkhush Meena, IAS, ADM (SA), Smti Nandini Maharaj, IAS, Officials of Election Department, students, BLOs and others.

Port Blair, Jan 25: A meeting was held in the chamber of the Mission Director, UT Health Mission at Secretariat, Port Blair today (25.01.2024) afternoon in which the demands raised by the Andaman & Nicobar ASHA Workers Union (CITU) were discussed in detail with a delegation led by D. Ayyappan, Vice President, CITU A & N State Committee.  The Union has brought to the notice of the Mission Director that a paltry amount of Rs. 2000 per month is being paid to the ASHA Workers in Andaman & Nicoabr Islands as Honorarium and re-iterated its demand for raising this amount to Rs. 10,000 per month at par with the ASHA Workers working in the union territory of Puducherry. The delegation of Union had also demanded substantial increase in various incentives and brought to the notice of the Mission Director that a number of incentives are not being paid to the ASHA Workers.  

Port Blair, Jan 25: It has been reported that certain criminal, anti-social elements or terrorists, inimical to India may pose a threat to the safety of general public, dignitaries and vital installations by the use of sub-conventional aerial platforms like para-gliders, para-motors, hand gliders, UAVs, UASs, microlight aircrafts, remotely piloted aircrafts, hot air balloons, small size powered aircrafts, Chinese Lalten, quadcopters or even by para jumping from aircraft etc.