The Latest Breaking News from Port Blair

Taking Your Pet on an Indian Train or Flight: Crate Rules, Paperwork and Routes That Work

What the Airlines Actually AllowIndiGo does not allow pets in the cabin. Air India does, but only on select routes and only for cats and dogs under 7 kg combined weight with the carrier. Akasa Air permits in-cabin pets on domestic sectors with advance notice. Vistara, now merged into Air…

Times Life · Sep 5

5 Dark and Historical Tourism Sites in India That Are Genuinely Uncomfortable to Visit

Cellular Jail, Port Blair, Andaman IslandsThe British built Cellular Jail between 1896 and 1906 specifically to break people. The architecture was designed for isolation, 693 individual cells arranged in seven radiating wings so that no prisoner could see another. Political detainees sent here under the colonial penal system included Bal…

Times Life · Aug 20

5 Lesser-Known Wildlife Sanctuaries in India Where Real Solitude and Wilderness Still Exist

Dampa Tiger Reserve, MizoramDampa sits in the far west of Mizoram, sharing a border with Bangladesh, and receives a fraction of the footfall that Kaziranga or Corbett pulls in any given weekend. The reserve covers roughly 500 square kilometres of semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forest, and tigers are present, though…

Times Life · Jul 9

Andaman gang-rape case: Labour commissioner RL Rishi remanded to police custody

PORT BLAIR: A local court on Tuesday remanded Andaman and Nicobar Labour Commissioner Rishishwar Lal Rishi to seven days' police custody in connection with the gang-rape case filed by a 21-year-old woman against him and others including a former chief secretary.

The Times of India · Nov 22, 2022

Businessman held in Haryana in gang rape case in Andamans, brought to Port Blair

PORT BLAIR: A businessman, who was arrested from Haryana in connection with the gang rape of a woman in Port Blair, was on Monday brought here on transit remand, police said. Sandeep Singh alias Rinku, who was absconding, was apprehended on Sunday night for his alleged involvement in the case,…

The Times of India · Nov 14, 2022

Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Earthquake of 4.3 magnitude hits Port Blair

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale occurred 183 km southwest of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, informed the National Center for Seismology (NCS) on Tuesday. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Jun 21, 2022

14 non-aerobridge AAI airports get ambulifts to facilitate divyang flyers; 6 more by month-end

NEW DELHI: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has provided ambulifts to facilitate flyers with reduced mobility at 14 airports — Dehradun, Gorakhpur, Patna, Bagdogra, Darbhanga, Imphal, Vijayawada, Port Blair, Jodhpur, Belgaum, Silchar, Jharsuguda, Rajkot and Hubli.

The Times of India · Apr 13, 2022

Depression over Bay of Bengal likely to intensify into cyclonic storm; moderate rain likely in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

NEW DELHI: The depression over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea has moved north-northeastwards, intensified into a deep depression at 0530 hours on Monday over north Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal. It lay centred at 0830 hours IST, over the same region near latitude…

The Times of India · Mar 21, 2022

Heavy rain, strong winds in Andamans due to Cyclone Asani

PORT BLAIR: People living in coastal areas of Andaman and Nicobar Islands were evacuated to safety as the archipelago experienced heavy rain and strong winds due to Cyclone Asani on Sunday, officials said.

The Times of India · Mar 20, 2022