Port Blair, March 3: The Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, in collaboration with SPIC MACAY, Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst the Youth, is organizing cultural programmes under the umbrella of ‘Shruti Amrut’ as part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ across the country. ‘Shruti Amrut’ festival is a minimum of 2 days long festival with Indian Classical Music and dance and Folk art forms from across the Country.   

Port Blair, March 3: The general public have been informed that due to deficit monsoon during 2022-23, the storage of water at all sources in South Andaman including Dhanikhari Dam has depleted substantially. Keeping in view the situation and the fact that storage of water available needs to be regulated till the arrival of the next South West Monsoon in May/June,2023, it has become inevitable to impose curtailment in the quantity of water to the extent of 30%. Consequently, the water supply to all areas falling under the jurisdiction of PHED, APWD and in the jurisdiction of PBMC shall be now made once in 3 days with effect from 09.03.2023 instead of the present schedule on alternate days.

Port Blair, March 3: Continuing the weeklong celebration of International Women’s Day, on 3rd March 2023 a program was organized at Chouldari Community Hall wherein Shri Kuldeep Rai, Member of Parliament graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.

On the occasion the guest speaker Smti. Kusum Singh, GTT Govt. Model Sr. Sec School enlightened the gathering on this year's International Women’s Day theme “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality” and encouraged women to come forward and be self-reliant.

Port Blair, March 3: The President, Hindu Rashtra Shakti, A&N Islands, Shri Rakeshwar Lall has requested the Lt. Governor, A&N Islands to withdraw the decision of water supply curtailment to once in three days.

Port Blair, March 3: ICAR-CIARI has started its campaign on biological control of house fly and mosquito at New Bimblitan, South Andaman. To initiate the campaign, a training programme was conducted from 28th February to 2nd March 2023 under a NABARD funded project on “Control of in refugia and in-house invasive flies of livestock in organized and unorganized herds of South Andaman District”.