Port Blair, Aug. 23: Eleven Covid positive cases have been detected today in A&N Islands. Today, 9 flights with 1184 passengers arrived, out of which, 1081 passengers were vaccinated with both doses while RT-PCR test was conducted on 70 passengers and the reports are awaited.  

Shri. Ajoy Bairagi, State President, Bharatiya Janata Party, A&N Islands, Shri Vishal Jolly, National Executive Member, Shri M. Vinod, State Media Convenor along with all Office bearers of BJP, Andaman & Nicobar Islands has condoled the demise of Gulab Devi, R/o Garacharma, wife of Late Jag Narayan ex Pradhan Garacharma at her residence today morning.

Port Blair, Aug 21: The Member of Parliament, Shri. Kuldeep Rai Sharma has demanded sailing of an all-port ship for all major Islands of Nicobar District via Hut Bay once, in every 10 days.

In a letter addressed to the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, the Member of Parliament said that Shipping Services is the lifeline of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, especially for the people of the Southern Group of Islands. As helicopter service offers only a limited number of seats to passengers and in most of the cases the seats remain reserved for urgent official works and patients for general public living in the Southern Group of Islands, ships are the only alternative for travelling from one Island to another.

Mr Rakeshwar Lall, State President and Mr Bishnu Pada Ray, former Member of Lok Sabha along with all members of Hindu Rashtra Shakti have deeply mourned the untimely demises of Smti Gulab Devi, W/o Late Jag Narayan ex Pradhan Garacharma, at her residence today (22-08-2022).

The Hindu Rashtra Shakti of Andaman and Nicobar Islands prayed to the Almighty to give eternal peace to the departed soul and courage to the bereaved family members to bear the irreparable loss.

Mayabunder, Aug 21: The District Police of North & Middle Andaman has been conducting regular raids to crackdown sale of illicit liquor/ IMFL. On receipt of information on 19/08/2022 from reliable sources regarding storage of illegal IMFL, a team was constituted comprising SI Sudeep Golder alongwith 01 HC & 04 PC of PS Kalighat, who conducted a raid in the store room beside the house cum ration shop of the person namely S. Kamalnathan S/o Late N. Selvam (44 yrs.) R/o Kalighat and recovered 348 bottles of IMFL amounting to 65 liters. The accused person was arrested and a case under relevant sections was registered at PS Kalighat.