Monthly Archives: January 2018

WCD starts implementation of CSS through PFMS

NAHARLAGUN, Jan 12: The Department of Women & Child Development (WCD) has started implementing centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS) through the Public Finance Management System (PFMS). The...

Governor visits remote Taksing

DAPORIJO, Jan 12: Governor Dr BD Mishra on Friday visited Taksing, one of the remotest border areas in Upper Subansiri district. Interacting with the locals,...

3 die in road accident, CM provides ex gratia

ITANAGAR, Jan 12: Chief Minister Pema Khandu has expressed shock and grief over the death of three persons in a road accident which occurred...

Drug abuse claimed 65 lives in Mizoram in 2017

AIZAWL, Jan 12: At least 65 people, including 12 women, died from substance abuse in Mizoram last year, according to the records of the...

Dr Duyu Meena Mudang appointed Regional Director for Mrs India-2018, NE

ITANAGAR, Jan 12: Mrs India 2017 winner, Dr Duyu Meena Mudang from Lower Subansiri district, has been appointment as the Regional Director for Mrs...

KVK organizes exposure tour for farmers

PASIGHAT, Jan 12: Thirty farmers from Rina and Koyu villages of Lower Siang district were taken to commercial vegetable farms located in Jampani area...

Group seeks road construction ‘as per DPR’

ITANAGAR, Jan 12: Claiming that the construction of the PMGSY road from Khenewa to Nampe in East Kameng district has not been taken up...

Hangpan Dada Memorial tournament begins in Aalo

AALO Jan 12: The second district level Hangpan Dada Memorial Football and Volleyball Tournament for both men and women began at the general ground...

Golden Jubilee Central Reh Volleyball Championship begins in Roing

ROING, Jan 12: The volleyball championship organized as part of the Golden Jubilee Central Reh Celebration, 2018, began at the general ground here on...

Inter-panchayat volleyball tourney held

SAGALEE, Jan 12: Pai panchayat and Totpu panchayat became champions in men's and women's section, respectively, of the first inter-panchayat volleyball tournament organized by...

National Youth Day celebrated

ITANAGAR, Jan 12: National Youth Day (NYD) was celebrated in various parts of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday, with various activities to commemorate the 155th...

Preparations underway for PPIF

JAIRAMPUR, Jan 12: Preparations for the Pangsau Pass International Festival (PPIF)-2018 is underway in full swing. In a review meeting held here on Friday, local...

CRPF distributes solar lamps

KOLORIANG, Jan 12: The 138 battalion of the CRPF provided solar lamps and panels to poor and BPL families here in Kurung Kumey district...

Assn seeks NEEPCO’s intervention in releasing contractor’s payment

ITANAGAR, Jan 12: The All Arunachal Contractors' Welfare Association (AACWA) has sought the intervention of the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation's (NEEPCO) authority in...

Speed up airport project

Arunachal is a late starter in introducing railway service in the state. For year’s central government kept state out of railway map until Naharlagun-Harmuty...

Movie halls may play or not

National Anthem By Insaf Three cheers to the Supreme Court! Citizens and cinema goers across the country will no longer need to wear patriotism across their...

Why India can’t have a national language

Dear Editor, This is in response to Mr.Ojing Megu's letter titled "Do we need a national language?"(January 11). Let's start with an anecdote! It was mid-Eighties...

Impending tempest

Dear Editor, In response to a news article titled “Murung festival facing extinction” published in this daily on 12th Jan 2018, by noted journalist Taro...

53 border villages will be developed as model villages under BADP: Pema

ITANAGAR, Jan 11: Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said that 53 villages - at least one in each of the 45 border blocks in...

Centre gives nod to Silapathar-Aalo railway line

ITANAGAR, Jan 11: Visiting General Manager of the Northeast Railways (Construction), NK Prasad, met Chief Minister Pema Khandu here on Thursday evening and informed...