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Port Blair, Feb 11: The officials of the Food Safety Department conducted surprise inspection of food business premises located at Bambooflat, Wimberly Gunj, Garacharma, Prem Nagar and Aberdeen Bazaar and seized huge quantities of banned half litre and one litre packaged drinking water in plastic bottles. Date of packing/best before, batch No., etc. were not mentioned in the bottles for the information of customers which is clear cut violation of Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labeling) Regulations, 2011.
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Port Blair, Feb 11: Acting on a compliant received regarding unhygienic and dumping of waste in drains and nearby areas in Kanyapuram Gram Panchayat under Ferrargunj Block in the South Andaman District, the Directorate of RD, PRIs and ULBs, Andaman and Nicobar Administration mobilized the grass root level functionaries and cleared the garbage within 24 hours. Large amount of waste in the form of Plastic bottles, MLPs, Glass bottles etc. were recovered and sent for further processing.
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Police Freezes Immovable Property, Bank Accounts and Seize 4 vehicles Including Super Luxury Audi A4 of Drug Peddler Mohammed Sultan and His Family
Port Blair, Feb 10: In a first-of-a-its-kind case in the Islands, A&N Police has frozen immovable property, bank accounts and seized 04 vehicles of drug peddler Mohammed Sultan R/o Garacharama. He was arrested on 22/10/2020 by Police Station Central Crime Station with 13.320 Kgs of Ganja. Md. Sultan has amassed huge wealth through his career of crime. During investigation by PS CCS the details of his illegally acquired properties were traced and identified. The investigation resulted in a Seizing/Freezing Order by the Station House Officer, PS as regards to a land piece at Chouldhari, four vehicles and 4 bank accounts having significant deposits. Mohammed Sultan has been involved in 11 cases of drugs and other cases since 2008.
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ZSI Team Spots Female Turtle at Galathea, Tagged by Researchers in 2014
Port Blair, Feb 10: It was a delight for the researchers, when a team of Zoological Survey of India spotted a tagged turtle, in the South Bay Galathea in the Great Nicobar Island on 8th of February 2021. The female turtle is said to have been tagged in the year 2014 by the ANET researchers in Little Andaman Island.
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Second Dose of COVID-19 Vaccination to be Administered from 13th Feb
Port Blair, Feb 10: The State Steering Committee meeting on COVID19 vaccination was held under the chairman of Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, Shri Chetan B Sanghi, IAS in the conference hall of the Secretariat on 09.02.2021. The meeting was also attended by Shri. Jitendra Narain, IAS, Principal Secretary (Home), Shri Vijay Kumar, IAS Principal Secretary (Finance), Dr. V Candavelou, IAS, Commissioner Cum Secretary (Health), Shri S.K. Jain IPS, IGP (Headquarter), other secretaries of A&N Administration, Officials of Health Dept and representative from ANC.
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