Port Blair, March 27: Andaman Moplah Service Organization (AMSO) registered a historic event in the history of the Islands marking the 100th Year of Moplah existence in the A&N Islands with a Mega Cultural Rally that commenced from Chatham Island and concluding with befitting cultural extravaganza at the Cellular Jail. The event was conducted as a symbolic testimony of the deportation of the Moplah Freedom Fighters involved in the Khilafat movement across the Malabar area of Kerala from 1922 onwards. The first batch of prisoners reached the Islands via. SS Maharaja on 6th March 1922 and were imprisoned in the Cellular Jail. More mopalh convicts were brought in the course of time.

Port Blair, March 27: The 11th Andaman & Nicobar State Conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) held at Atul Smrity Samity (Bengali Club), Port Blair today elected a 15-member State Organising Committee with Shri D. Ayyappan as Secretary. A 7-member State Secretariat was also elected in the Conference.  The Conference also elected Shri D. Ayyappan as Delegate from Andaman & Nicobar Islands to attend the 23rd Party Congress scheduled to be held at Kannur, Kerala from 6th to 10th April 2022. 

Port Blair, March 27: The All India Chess Federation (AICF) under the aegis of Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India will be organizing the 31st National Under-18 (Boys & Girls) Chess Championship-2022 from 18th April to 23rd April 2022 at Indoor Stadium, MCET Campus, Pollachi, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Port Blair, March 27: The Department of Home Science, JNRM, in association with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Andaman & Nicobar Islands organised a National Seminar on “Role of Agri-Entrepreneurship,  FPO and Fisheries in Atmanirbhar Bharat: Issues and Challenges with special reference to Andaman & Nicobar Islands”.

Port Blair, March 25: The Member of Parliament, Shri. Kuldeep Rai Sharma on Wednesday (23-03-2022) during the budget session of Parliament raised demands concerning Andaman and Nicobar Islands Parliamentary constituency, during the discussion on Demand for Grants concerning the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. 

The Member of Parliament has put forth some demands concerning Andaman & Nicobar Islands before the Ministry in the Parliament: