Monthly Archives: May 2019

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...

Arunachal Pradesh in shock

The horrific killing of 11 people, including the sitting legislator from Khonsa West constituency and NPP candidate Tirong Aboh, has sent shockwaves across the...

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...

Litigation is coming

Dear Editor, I would like to question the authority concerned of the NEEPCO as to what happened to the result of the recruitment test that...

Poor academic results: Address the root cause

Dear Editor, The dismal but expected academic results of Classes 10 and 12 exams in Arunachal Pradesh have started a blame game and, ultimately, the...

Polling team for Nampe ambushed near Langbang

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, May 20: The polling team en route to the Nampe polling station in Kurung Kumey district was reportedly ambushed by more than...

CBI turns down request to investigate Ojing Taying murder case

ITANAGAR, May 20: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has turned down the state's home department's request to investigate the Ojing Taying murder case,...

Museum road in pathetic condition

ITANAGAR, May 19: The people living on the sides of the road leading to the JN state museum, as well as the residents of...

MSME officer discusses projects with DCM

NAMSAI, May 20: Advisor to the union micro, small & medium enterprises (MSME) development commissioner, AK Mudgal, called on Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein...

Steps taken to regulate pvt schools in East Siang

Correspondent PASIGHAT, May 20: The East Siang district education department has taken steps to regulate the private schools in the district and ensure that the...

Yekar writes to ECI, seeking re-poll in Soki

ITANAGAR, May 20: The Janata Dal (United)'s Daporijo MLA candidate, Dikto Yekar, has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI), demanding re-polling at...

Union seeks arrest of alleged molester

ITANAGAR, May 20: The All Papum Poma Students' Union (APPSU) has written to the capital SP, seeking immediate arrest of one Nabam Tadik, who...

Two drug peddlers nabbed

ITANAGAR, May 20: The capital complex police nabbed two drug peddlers from Banderdewa area in Papum Pare district on Sunday, and seized 18 vials...

World Honeybee Day celebrated

PASIGHAT, May 20: World Honeybee Day was celebrated by the College of Horticulture & Forestry (CHF) here in East Siang district on 20 May,...