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Port Blair, Dec. 28: Under nation wide mock drill, Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar inspected the current medical infrastructure and preparedness to deal with Covid_19 emergency at G B Pant Hospital, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands on 27th Dec. 2022.
The Minister visited the ICU, OPD ward, dispensary and medical oxygen plant at the hospital premises and also met the patients. She also took stock of hospital's functionality and current available facilities.
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Port Blair, Dec. 28: Admiral DK Joshi, PVSM, AVSM,YSM,NM, VSM (Retd.), Hon'ble Lt Governor, A&N Islands and Vice-Chairman, Islands Development Agency will hoist the National Flag at Flag Point on 30th December, 2022 at 8 am to commemorate the First Flag Hoisting by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the year 1943.
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Port Blair, Dec. 28: The Home Guards (Non-Regular) those who have been working for more than 03 years under Andaman & Nicobar Police, may be given equal opportunity as par with NCC C certificate holders who are given the additional 02 marks at the time of recruitmentfor the posts of Police Constable, requested Shri Ajoy Bairagi, State President, BJP in a letter marked to the Lt. Governor with copies to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police.
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Port Blair, Dec. 28: Shri Vishal Jolly, National Executive Member BJP has written a letter to Chief Secretary, A&N Administration on issues pertaining to extremely poor shipping services which are seriously affecting the lives of people belonging to Southern groups of Islands, especially Katchal, Teressa, Chowra & Nancowry group of Islands.
Mentioning his recently concluded tour to Nicobar District, Jolly reported in his letter that two vessels/boats namely M. V. Galathiya and M. V. Barren, which were used for voyages/passenger sailings in the Nancowry group of Islands are out service due to its poor & pathetic conditions and therefore there is neither any vehicle ferry nor any ferry boat available for Nancowry groups of Islands.
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Port Blair, Dec. 28: The 1st War of Kinghts Open International FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2022 begins yesterday the 26th December 2022 at Sonarpur, Kolkata, West Bengal.
Around 240 players across India & abroad are participating in the event in which 2 young budding chess players, (one Boy & one Girl) from Andaman & Nicobar Islands viz Shrihaan Karmarkar , a student of class III , KV-2 Port Blair, and Anuva Majumdar, a student of Carmel Sr. Sec. School Port Blair are taking part in the event.