Port Blair, Aug 25: Shri Vishal Jolly, National Executive Member BJP & Former State President BJP-ANI in a letter to Chief Secretary, A&N Administration demanded three (3) years Relaxation of age for all the aspiring candidates, considering the COVID-19 pandemic.

Port Blair, Aug 25: Tagore Government College of Education, Port Blair celebrated its 42nd Foundation Day on 24th of August 2022 in its premises. The programme commenced with lighting the lamp by the Principal and garlanding the bust of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. All the faculty members and trainees of the institution paid their respect to the great polymath.

Port Blair, Aug. 25: Under National Programme for Control of Blindness & Visual Impairment, 37th National Fortnight on Eye Donation is being observed from 25th August, 2022 and will continue upto 8th Sept. 2022 throughout the Islands by conducting IEC activities to create awareness about the importance of eye donation and to motivate people to pledge their eyes for donation after death. As part of the activity, an awareness programme on eye donation was arranged today at Forest Club, Ward No. 2, Haddo in coordination with the Health Education Bureau, Directorate of Health Services, A&N Islands.

Port Blair, Aug 25: To ensure the availability of safe & hygienic milk to the general public, the officials of Food Safety Department conducted a special drive to check the quality of fresh milk being sold by various milk vendors. In the morning & evening hours milk samples were collected and tested on the spot with the help of milk analysis instruments provided by FSSAI. 37 samples were collected and tested out of which 35 samples were found satisfactory and in two samples added water was detected.

Port Blair, Aug 25: Disaster Management Training imparted to the students and faculties of Andaman & Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Science (ANIIMS), Port Blair in the one-day Training Workshop held at Lecture Hall-III, ANIIMS on 25.08.2022 to achieve the vision “Develop, Promote and Prepare Youth for managing disasters in ANI” under Disaster Management in Higher Education (DMHE) programme.