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Port Blair, Jan 31: It is a Proud moment for Islanders as R Kashthuri Bhai, a class VIII student of GDMS Middle Point, Port Blair has brought laurels to the A & N Islands by securing third position in the 11th National Schools Under 17 Girls Chess Championship 2023 held in Hosur, Tamilnadu from 27.01.2023 to 31.01.2023.
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Port Blair, Jan. 31: The District Administration with the assistance of State Authority, NDRF & other line Departments organized a Mock Exercise yesterday at Junglighat, Fish Landing Centre on the Scenario ‘Earthquake, followed by Tsunami’. During the mock exercise, the alert message of Earthquake & Subsequent Tsunami was passed to all the Nodal Officers of line Departments and a Control Room was set up in the District Control Room, South Andaman.
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Port Blair, Jan 31: ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, South Andaman organized an awareness programme on natural farming at Shoal Bay on 30.01.2023. Mr A. R. Kumar, Pradhan, Shoal Bay Gram Panchayat was chief guest of the programme.
In his addres the chief guest advised the farming community that over usage of fertilizers and pesticides causes environmental damage and impacted in human and soil health. Avoidance of agro-chemicals like fertilizers and pesticides in the field will prevent run off into water source and also preserve our fragile ecosystem.
Read more: Awareness Programme on Natural Farming Organised at Shoal Bay
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Port Blair, Jan. 31: The Andaman & Nicobar Islands are prone to Geological and Hydro-meteorological disasters and located in one of the most seismically active parts of the world and several great earthquakes have occurred in the past. Andaman & Nicobar Islands runs accurately parallel to the boundary separating the Australian and Eurasian plates in the Indian Ocean that are continuously jostling with each other. These Islands are mostly susceptible to very high intensity of seismicity and as per the seismic zoning map of India contained in IS 1893 -1984, Islands are classified in seismic Zone - V.
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Port Blair, Jan 31: A fire broke at Junglighat, Port Blair today night at around 10.40 pm, gutting few shops near the Durga Pooja Pandal. It was a major fire, where in the fire fighters are doing their best to arrest it before it spreads. The cause of the fire is still unknown.