The Uttarakhand tableau was shortlisted after a six-round meeting with the expert select committee.
January 6, 2019The Onge tribe in Little Andaman is fast dwindling but a trip to their home makes for an invigorating getaway.
October 28, 2018Enormous storehouses with wooden planks and logs piled up to the roof on one side and a massive single-room workshop with century-old machines on the other — that’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago’s Chatham Saw Mill, the oldest and also one of the biggest in Asia. Three kilometres north of capital Port Blair, the mill, occupying …
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December 9, 2017Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharman arrived here on Wednesday on a two-day visit during which she will celebrate Diwali with soldiers at the Andaman and Nicobar Command. The Minister was received at INS Utkrosh — an Indian naval air station under the Andaman and Nicobar Command — by Lt Governor Admiral D.K. Joshi (retd) and the …
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October 18, 2017All 2,376 tourists, including 12 foreign nationals, who were stranded at Havelock and Neil Islands in Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been rescued and taken to safety in Port Blair, officials said on Saturday. The evacuation mission was initiated at the request of the A&N Disaster Management ahead of a “cyclonic storm” that was likely …
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