Port Blair, Oct. 29: The Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India conferred the Jeevan Raksha Padak-2019 to Shri. M. Samayamuthu, Assistant Sub-Inspector of A&N Police in recognition of excellent and brave life-saving act done by him on 22.12.2018 after he saved a life of a drowning person Shri.  Subham Biswas from the sea near Aberdeen Jetty, Port Blair.

Car Nicobar, Oct. 29: The Nicobar Police organized a friendly cricket match today at Modern Sports Complex, Lapathy, Car Nicobar. The match was played between District Police Nicobar-XI and Tapoiming-XI. The aim of the match was to create awareness among the people and players about COVID-19.

Port Blair, Oct. 29: The Bharatiya Janata Party, Andaman & Nicobar Islands led by Shri Ajoy Bairagi, State President, BJP, A & N Islands through Shri M Vinod, State Vice President has requested Hon’ble Minister of Civil Aviation, GOI to Increase the number of inbound flights from major metropolitan cities such as Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangaluru, Hyderabad etc. from November, 2020 onwards.

Port Blair, Oct. 29: The Port Blair Municipal Council has sanctioned two micro-credit loan under Self Employment Programme (SEP) of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihood (DAY-NULM). The loans were disbursed to Shri. N. Senthivel and Smt. L. Mahalaxmi on 29/10/2020. Smti. Anjali Sehrawat IAS, Secretary PBMC and Lead District Manager Port Blair Shri. P.K. Ummer Farooq handed over the sanction letter for an amount of Rs. 1.9 lakhs and Rs. 1.8 lakhs respectively. Sh. N. Senthivel runs a Food Items shop near Shadipur Chowk while Smt. L . Mahalaxmi  runs a small bakery from her home.

Port Blair, Oct. 29: The South Andaman District Police solved an attempt to ATM theft case within an hour with the apprehension of one Juvenile in conflict with law.

On 27/10/2020 at around 0600 hrs, a complaint was received from the Manager, HDFC Bank, Junglighat, Port Blair that the ATM installed at the main branch was vandalized by some miscreant.