Monthly Archives: August 2018

Trg on web portal, app usage imparted

YUPIA, Aug 13: A hands-on training programme on the uses of web portal and mobile application for satellite-based monitoring and geo-tagging of developmental projects...

Jan sunwai sammelan held

PALIN, Aug 13: The first jan sunwai sammelan organised by the Kra Daadi district administration to facilitate services to the people was inaugurated by...

Farmers urged to go organic

SIMONG, Aug 13: Fifty farmers participated in a kisan goshti organized by the Upper Siang Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) at Simong village on...

Forestry students undergoing internship trg

ITANAGAR, Aug 13: A three-month internship training programme for BSc forestry students of five different colleges attached with the State Forest Research Institute (SFRI)...

Police deployment demanded

NARI, Aug 13: The Ramle Banggo Students' Union has submitted a memorandum to the Lower Siang superintendent of police, demanding immediate deployment of police...

Union seeks regularization of DDSEs

ITANAGAR, Aug 13: The Arunachal Indigenous Students' Union in a six-point memorandum to the chief minister on Monday appealed to him to take early...

Awareness programme conducted

AALO, Aug 13: The West Siang District Tobacco Control Cell recently launched a series of school awareness camps on the harmful effects of tobacco...

‘Cancel inspector’s transfer order’

DAPORIJO, Aug 13: The All New Market Welfare Association here has requested the state government to cancel the transfer of Daporijo police station Inspector...

Assn observes ‘Patriotic Day’

ITANAGAR, Aug 13: The Manipuri Welfare Society of Arunachal Pradesh (MWSAP) on Monday observed its 175th Patriotic Day in a function at the conference...

Big wins for Naharlagun Solung and Banggo UFC

CHIMPU, Aug 13: A brilliant hat-trick from Tajing Siram helped Naharlagun Solung FC thrash Gumin Bote 7-3 in a Group B match of the...

Inter-club badminton tourney underway

PALIN, Aug 13: The first inter-club Independence Cup Badminton Tournament of Kra Daadi District began at the indoor hall here on Monday. The inaugural match...

No place for girls

Rape Country By Poonam I Kaushish India is at war with its girls and women. As tales of savagery and nightmarish drugging, beating and rape of...

Indigenous Peoples and forest rights

Dear Editor, International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is celebrated every year on August 9. The significance of this day is to remind us...

Looting the unemployed

Dear Editor, In a democratic welfare state like India, govt. is installed for the welfare of its citizen. Creating jobs for the masses being one...

ISTT project yet to see light of day

Staff Reporter NAHARLAGUN, Aug 12: The much awaited interstate truck terminal (ISTT) project at Lekhi village here is yet to see the light of day. Work...

CM reassures indigenous faith believers over APFR Act

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Aug 12: Chief Minister Pema Khandu reassured the indigenous faith believers of the state that the government would consult members of all...

The engineer who quit his job to make India free of child beggars

ITANAGAR, Aug 12: With his mission to eradicate child beggary from the entire nation, Ashish Sharma, a mechanical engineer, arrived in Itanagar on foot...

Fishy business

Abhijit (name changed) is a fishmonger in Itanagar. He is an Assamese-speaking Bihari from Assam who makes a living in Itanagar. Abhijit procures his fishes...

AASSATA urges govt to reconsider cabinet decision on regularization

ITANAGAR, Aug 12: Members of the All Arunachal Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers' Association (AASSATA), led by its president Tarak Agung Tarh, called on Deputy...

Teacher served show cause notice over unethical statement

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Aug 12: Taking cognizance of the unethical statement issued by SSA teacher identified as Nabam Doria during the dharna staged by the...