The ‘Swasthya-Doot’ project was taken up after a phone call in the early hours in October last year. The caller, a government staff, told him about a medical emergency at Makachua village with one of the residents falling ill as his heart stopped beating.
LUCKNOW IAS officer and travel columnist partha Sarthi Sen Sharma launched his latest book. The book revolves around fictional characters and plotlines that narrate the history and present story of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He also spoke of the different indigenous tribes found on the archipelago.
The IMD has placed Uttarakhand on a Red Alert and its neighbouring states of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and the capital, Delhi on an orange alert. Heavy rainfall is expected at isolated places over jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, East Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Karaikal and Kerala
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue in Gujarat, parts of Maharashtra, Konkan, and Goa. Thunderstorms accompanied by lightning, gusty winds, and squall (speed reaching 50-60 kmph) are very likely in isolated places in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Zubair Ahmed, 48, a senior journalist based in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, was found dead inside a school. Ahmed was a resident of Wimberlygunj in South Andaman. Police said prima facie, it seemed like a suicide and that an investigation was underway.
A series of earthquakes jolted the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on 4 and 5 July. The strongest tremor- a 5.0 magnitude quake was recorded at 5:57 am on Tuesday. The epicentre of this quake was 215km ESE of islands' capital Port Blair. No casualties or damage to property have been reported yet.
Delhi Government has begun the process of mass reshuffling of officials of Delhi Administration Subordinate Services (DASS), Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Civil) Services (Danics), and ad-hoc Danics, SDMs, Grade-I officers, and all other categories working in a department for more than five or six years. About 80 officials are expected to get transferred and moved to other departments from where they are currently posted.
Earthquake measuring 5.0 on Richter Scale hits Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The tremors were felt at around 5:57 am today. The epicentre of the earthquake was 215km ESE of Port Blair. There were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property due to the earthquake.
