Port Blair, Feb 9: D Charvi, a Class II student of VKV Lambaline, a young budding chess player from A&N Islands brings laurel to our islands by winning the First Prize in Under 07 Girls Category in the Little England 4th   International FIDE Rating Below 1600 Chess Tournament 2023 held in Hosur, Tamilnadu from 06/02/2023 to 08/02/2023.

Port Blair, Feb 9: The much awaited Tissue Culture Laboratory was inaugurated in a brief function organized today in the premises of Organic Horticulture Farm, Sippighat. Shri Pankaj Kumar, IAS, Secretary (Agriculture) A&N Administration who was the chief guest inaugurated the newly built Tissue Culture Laboratory. Dr. Eknath B Chakurkar, Director, CIARI was the guest of honour on the occasion. Smti Champa Das, Pramukh, Prothrapur Panchayat Samiti, Shri Radhey Shyam Meena, Director of Agriculture, Smti Taposi Saha, Pradhan, Chouldari, Shri Palani Kumar, Pradhan, Humphrygunj, farmers of nearby villages and the staff of Agriculture Department and CIARI were present on the occasion.

Port Blair, Feb 9: WITH YOU (NGO) today organized a successful awareness program focused on women's health and hygiene in Sunder Colony, Haddo. The program aimed to educate and empower women on the importance of maintaining good health and hygiene.

Dr. Mehrubin, Junior Doctor at ANIIMS, was the keynote speaker at the event. She spoke about the various ways women can maintain good health and the importance of daily hygiene. Dr. Mehrubin also highlighted the diseases that can be caused by poor personal hygiene and encouraged the participants to ask questions and voice their concerns.

Port Blair, Feb 9: The Andaman Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee President, Shri. Rangalal Halder has requested the Administration to resolve the load shedding issue being faced by the islanders in the South Andaman District.

In his letter addressed to the Chief Secretary, A&N Administration, Halder said that due to frequent power cuts in various localities of South Andaman, the islanders were facing an immense disappointment towards the Electricity Department.

Port Blair, Feb 9: The Nagarpalika Shramik Sangh (CITU) staged a mass demonstration in front of the Port Blair Municipal Council office at Aberdeen Bazar, Port Blair today (9th Feb 2023) afternoon, demanding (i) regularisation of services of daily rated mazdoors (ii) grant of 1/30th of pay plus DA to all DRMs and (iii) grant of Bonus to all DRMs in PBMC.