The name Port Blair is said to have carried a colonial ... In 1789, the Government of Bengal laid the foundation of a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, and ...

Blair's survey led to the establishment of a settlement on Chatham Island, a small island near what is now modern Port Blair. This settlement was primarily intended as a penal colony, and it ...

You may also visit the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island which isabout two km away from Port Blair. In between, you can squeeze in the Samudrika Museum, Corby’s Cove beach, Chatham Saw Mill ...

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The renaming of Port Blair to Sri Vijaya Puram was officially ... of Bengal began developing a penal settlement on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of the Great Andaman which was named after ...

In a significant move, the Union government has decided to rename Port Blair, the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, as "Sri Vijaya Puram." The decision reflects the Narendra Modi ...

In April 1858, Aga, a convict gangsman at the Ross Island penal settlement in the ... Tewari was received at the British Penal Settlement at Port Blair when he arrived from Karachi.

Port Blair, the capital city of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has been renamed Sri Vijaya Puram, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Friday. IMAGE: President Droupadi ...

Port Blair: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale occurred 187 km southeast of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, informed the National Center for Seismology (NCS) on ...