Port Blair, May 2: The MPL 33rd National U-17 Chess Championship–2023 began yesterday the 1st May 2023 in Jalandhar, Punjab.

Around 250 players across India are participating in the prestigious event in which 3 young budding chess players, (two boys and one girl) from Andaman & Nicobar Islands viz. D Shrestha Vijay, A Chirag Kumar and Jasleen Kaur Bohra are taking part in the Championship.

Port Blair, May 2: ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-CIARI), Port Blair participated in the ICAR Zonal Sports Tournament (Eastern Zone)-2022 held at ICAR-IVRI, Izatnagar during 24th to 27th April, 2023. The zonal sports tournament was attended by the participants from 21 ICAR Research Institutes of Eastern zone. The team ICAR-CIARI was represented in the tournament with the coordination of Mrs. G.V. Kantam as Chief-De-Mission and Mrs. Champa Rani Das as Team Manager.

Port Blair, May 2: The proposed two days training programme for Tourist Guide scheduled on May 6 & 7, 2023 at Swaraj Dweep has been postponed due to administrative reason.  

Port Blair, May 2: APWD has invited suggestions from general public on ways and measures to augment water supply in Port Blair. The suggestions may include rejuvenation of non-functional ponds, abandoned Japanese wells, identification of water streams & new bore wells and any other water sources which may be utilized for public use. The suggestions may be sent on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  within next 15 days.

Port Blair, May 2: All APL Ration Card holders of Port Blair and Ferrargunj Tehsil have been informed that despite the efforts made by the Department of Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs through media, requesting all Aadhaar unseeded members/bogus members to get their Aadhaar number seeded/bogus members deleted from their ration cards, a considerable number of ration card holders have not yet approached the department for the same or submitting reason for not doing so.