The Andaman Islands are an archipelago,made up of 200 islands,in the northeastern Indian Ocean about 130 km (81 mi) southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south,the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between the Bay of Bengal to the west and the Andaman Sea to the east. Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,a Union Territory of India,while the Coco Islands and Preparis Island are part of the Yangon Region of Myanmar.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India. It consists of 836 islands grouped into two island groups,the northern Andaman Islands and the southern Nicobar Islands,separated by a 150 km (93 mi) wide channel of which only 31 are inhabited. Port Blair is the capital and largest city of the territory,located about 1,190 km (740 mi) from Chennai and 1,255 km (780 mi) from Kolkata in mainland India. The islands are sandwiched between the Bay of Bengal to the west and the Andaman Sea to the east with the northern-most point located 901 km (560 mi) from the mouth of Hooghly river. Indira Point at 6°45’10″N and 93°49’36″E at the southern tip of Great Nicobar,is the southernmost point of India.
The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. They are located in Southeast Asia,150 kilometres (93 mi) northwest of Aceh on Sumatra,and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea. Located 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) southeast of the Indian subcontinent,across the Bay of Bengal,they are part of India,as the Nicobar district within the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
According to official estimates in India,10,749 people were killed,5,640 people were missing and thousands of people became homeless when a tsunami triggered by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake near the Indonesian island of Sumatra struck the southern coast on 26 December 2004. The earthquake registered 9.1–9.3 Mw and was the largest in five decades. It was followed by strong aftershocks on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The death toll of the earthquake was 1,500 people.
Port Blair is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division (tehsil) of the islands,the headquarters for the district of South Andaman and is the territory's only notified town.
Mukut Mithi is an Indian politician and former Member of the Rajya Sabha. He is a former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. He served as an MLA consecutively from 1983 until his appointment as last Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry and first Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry in 2006. He was Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 19 January 1999 until 3 August 2003.
Indira Point,the southernmost point of India's territory,is a village in the Nicobar district at Great Nicobar Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil.
The Japanese occupation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands occurred in 1942 during World War II. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands,are a group of islands situated in the Bay of Bengal at about 1,250 km (780 mi) from Kolkata,1,200 km (750 mi) from Chennai and 190 km (120 mi) from Cape of Nargis in Burma. Until 1938 the British government used them as a penal colony for Indian and African political prisoners,who were mainly put in the notorious Cellular Jail in Port Blair,the biggest town (port) on the islands. Today they form a Union Territory of India.
Manoranjan Bhakta was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He was first elected as Member of Parliament for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1977 to the 6th Lok Sabha. In total,he served eight terms as Member of Parliament for this constituency,seven of which were consecutive from 1977–1999. In 2010,after being denied a ticket in an election,he left the INC and later joined the Trinamool Congress.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Lok Sabha constituency is the only Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) constituency in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It covers the entire union territory.
The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is a integrated tri-services command of the Indian Armed Forces,based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,a Union Territory of India. It was created in 2001 to safeguard India's strategic interests in Southeast Asia and the Strait of Malacca by increasing rapid deployment of military assets in the region. It provides logistical and administrative support to naval ships which are sent on deployment to East Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
Vakkom B. Purushothaman was an Indian politician who served as the Governor of Mizoram from 2011 to 2014,Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly,state minister and Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Kuldeep Rai Sharma is an Indian politician belonging to INC,currently serving as Member of Parliament. He also served as President of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee until 2021. Later on,he was promoted by Congress President Sonia Gandhi as All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary incharge for Indian National Congress in Karnataka.
Pulomilo is an island in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India,and home to a village of the same name. It is located just north of Little Nicobar Island.
Tourism in Andaman and Nicobar Islands relates to tourism in union territory of India,Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Andamans are an archipelago of over 572 tropical islands,of which only 38 are inhabited. In 2004 Radhanagar beach at Havelock Island was bestowed with the title of "Asia’s Best Beach" and as the world's seventh most spectacular beach by Time Magazine.
Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee (ANTCC) is the wing of Indian National Congress in the parts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Kuldeep Rai Sharma is the present president of Andaman &Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee.
John Richardson was an Indian Anglican bishop and politician.
Vishnu Sharan Dublish was an Indian politician and freedom fighter. He was an associate of Bhagat Singh,Chandrashekhar Azad and involved in the Kakori Train robber during India's freedom movement. For his role in the Kakori conspiracy he was sentenced to Life Imprisonment in the Cellular jail in Port Blair,Andaman &Nicobar Islands. He was later freed in the 1940s shortly before Independence of India. He was a Member of Parliament,representing Sardhana,Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha the lower house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. He was a student of Church Mission High School and Meerut College.
Lachman Singh was a leader of the Indian National Congress from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He was nominated as Member of Parliament to 2nd Lok Sabha representing Andaman and Nicobar Islands the lower house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress.
K. R. Ganesh was an Indian politician and a member of the 4th Lok Sabha and 5th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the 1967 Indian general election and 1971 Indian general elections a member of the Indian National Congress. He was Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance from June 26,1970 to October 10,1974 and then Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals from October 10,1974 to December 1,1975. He was co-founders of Congress for Democracy along with Jagjivan Ram,Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna,and Nandini Satpathy left the Indian National Congress of Indira Gandhi and denounced her rule during the Indian Emergency.
