Nicobar in a sentence

Galathea Bay in the Great Nicobar lsland of Andaman & Nicobar lslands has also been identified for the development of an international container transshipment terminal, due to its strategic location.

On 1 August 1974, the Nicobar islands were hived off into another revenue district with district headquarters at Car Nicobar under a Deputy Commissioner.

As the week ends, the IMD has predicted dry weather over most parts of the country, except isolated to scattered rainfall over Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Fisherfolks are advised not to venture into southeast Bay of Bengal from Thursday (November 30) to December 3. Those out at sea are urged to return to Andaman and Nicobar Islands and coast by Thursday.

In the name of marine exploration, Beijing is actually mapping the Indian Ocean bed from the ninety degree ridge south of Andamans and Nicobar Islands to the deep South Indian Ocean.

In 2004, when the tsunami struck the islands, an incident occurred at Galathea Bay, a prominent nesting ground for leatherback sea turtles in the Great Nicobar Islands.

Now Papa and Mummy had planned a trip to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and talked non-stop about the water sports at Radhanagar and Havelock.

The inauguration ceremony was also virtually joined by the esteemed dignitaries representing Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Rajasthan, Nagaland, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Mizoram.

The weather office said the southwest monsoon is very likely to advance into the south Andaman Sea, some parts of the Southeast Bay of Bengal and Nicobar Islands around May 19.

While some effort was made to leverage this locational advantage with the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) being constituted as a tri-services command in 2001, subsequent efforts have been grossly inadequate.

Will India's megaproject sink the Great Nicobar Island?

The 2,312-kilometer-long submarine optical fibre cable from Chennai to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, laid at a cost of Rs 1,224 crore, will provide "better and cheaper connectivity", he said.

The basic Rs 499 plan is now available throughout India except for the islands of Kolkata, Rajasthan, Sikkim, West Bengal, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar.

The first issue post-partition was the status of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The Kejriwal-led party had fielded candidates in Delhi, Chandigarh, Bihar, Goa, Punjab, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Haryana, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, but only Bhagwant Mann of the party came up trumps from Sangrur in Punjab.

The virus initially hit major metropolises such as Mumbai and New Delhi, but has since spread to almost every corner of the huge country, including the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Although they’re small, usually no larger than a human’s fingertip, they remain a key reason that the Nicobar pigeon gets hunted down.

Among the 27 Lok Sabha seats declared Saturday, 12 are from Kerala, seven from Uttar Pradesh, five from Chhattisgarh, two from Arunachal and one from Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

As for tomorrow (Saturday), heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely over West Madhya Pradesh and heavy over East Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan, East Madhya Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

At present, there are seven UTs in the country — Chandigarh (which serves as the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana), Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Puducherry.