Monthly Archives: May 2019

ADG, Secy Edn meet on NCC expansion plans

ITANAGAR, May 22: NCC North East Region Additional Director General, Major General Bipin Bakshi visited the state capital on Wednesday to participate in the...

AKDSU complains against DDEE

RAGA, May 22: The All Kamle District Students Union (AKDSU) has requested the education secretary cum SLEC chairman to take necessary action against the...

A dangerous game!

Politics of Labelling By Dr. S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) A primary lesson for all political speakers is to avoid controversial terms particularly to malign...

An open letter to the candidates

Dear Editor, As election results are being released today, I would like to share few things to consider. First of all, more than half of...

The relation between the fraught elections and the increasing violence in the state

Dear Editor, The brutal assassination of TirongAboh, the sitting MLA from Tirap and his entourage that included his son and 10 other personnel reportedly by...

11 including MLA Tirong Aboh massacred near Khonsa by suspected NSCN militants

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, May 21: In an incident that has shocked the entire state, sitting MLA and the National People's Party (NPP) candidate for the...

The story of Team Zara

The polling team which had left for the Zara polling station in Kra Daadi district on 23 April had reportedly gone missing, and their...

No poll-related violence in Nampe, Gimba: DEO

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, May 21: The second round of fresh polling in Nampe in Koloriang assembly constituency and Gimba in Tali assembly constituency was held...

Condolences and condemnation follow assassination of Aboh and 10 others

ITANAGAR, May 21: Following the ambush on and assassination of the National People's Party's (NPP) Khonsa West MLA candidate Tirong Aboh and ten others...

144 CrPC imposed in Longding

LONGDING, May 21: Longding Deputy Commissioner Vikram Singh Malik has imposed Section 144 of the CrPC in the district, prohibiting assembly of five or...

APSCW seeks charge-sheets on recent murders

ITANAGAR, May 21: The Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Women (APSCW) on Tuesday sought early submission of the charge-sheets in the murder of one...

Stray animals create nuisance on highway

Correspondent PASIGHAT, May 21: Domestic animals, particularly cows and pigs, which are allowed to roam free by their owners, have become a great nuisance...

Are community-based organizations relevant in our state?

Comments from readers: - 1. Community-based organisations are the greatest dividers of the Arunachalee society. The so-called tribe-based and clan-based organisations should be discouraged and...

Police arrest highway robbers

ROING, May 21: Some young miscreants who recently robbed cash and mobile phones from a goods truck in Lower Dibang Valley district have been...

Voter urges CEO to cancel postal vote cast by proxy

ITANAGAR, May 21: A voter of the Dumporijo assembly constituency in Upper Subansiri district has requested the chief electoral officer (CEO) here to direct...

BRO, NCC ADGs call on governor

ITANAGAR, May 21: Officiating Additional Director General (ADG) of the Border Roads Organization (BRO)-East, PKH Singh, called on Governor BD Mishra at the Raj...

72 youths to undergo skill development trg

ITANAGAR, May 21: The skill development & entrepreneurship (SDE) department organized a 'briefing-cum-send-off programme' at the Udyog Sadan here on Tuesday for 72 youths...

Anti-Terrorism Day observed

PASIGHAT, May 21: Commemorating Anti-Terrorism Day, the officers and staff of the deputy commissioner's office here in East Siang district took the antiterrorism pledge...

DEO meets with political parties; final trg for counting supervisors completed

AALO, May 21: West Siang District Election Officer (DEO) Swetika Sachan on Tuesday convened a meeting to discuss the procedures for appointment of counting...

Will new govt focus on poor? 

Post-2019 Elections By Dhurjati Mukherjee The campaigning and polling for 2019 General elections is over. Those who cast their vote would have done so in the...