Monthly Archives: December 2019

BRTF organizes cleaning drive

YINGKIONG, Dec 11: Three truck loads of plastic waste were collected during a special cleaning drive organized by the 761 BRTF stationed here in...

YRF-2020 steering committee members inspect venue

AALO,Dec 11: Members of the steering committee for YomgoRiver Festival-2020 led by its chairman DFO Abhinav Kumar and including Superintendent of Police JummarBasar, DTO...

ANGOEF decides to promote local artisans

ITANAGAR, Dec 11: The third executive body meeting of the 'Arunachal NGO & Entrepreneurship Forum (ANGOEF)' was held here on Wednesday under the chairperson...

MLA inspects all weather road at Beyevillage

AALO, Dec 11: Aalo EastMLA KentoJini inspected the all-weather road at Beye village under West Siang district, which has been facing communication bottleneck for...

Nation’s prerogative

Citizenship Expansion By Dr. S.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 is another bold initiative of the NDA government to tackle the problem...

Shah unclear on Chakma-Hajong issue

ITANAGAR, Dec 10: As soon as the citizenship amendment bill (CAB) was passed in the Lok Sabha, BJP and RSS supporters in Arunachal, whom...

Total shutdown in Arunachal over discriminatory CAB

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Dec 10: Total shutdown was witnessed across Arunachal during the 11-hour Northeast bandh imposed by the North East Students' Organisation (NESO),...

CAB to be introduced in RS on Wednesday

NEW DELHI, Dec 10: The BJP is confident of the passage of the contentious citizenship amendment bill (CAB), which will be introduced in the...

NERIST develops fruit-harvesting ladder, load-carrying basket for hilly region

NIRJULI, Dec 10: The North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (NERIST) here has developed a fruit-harvesting ladder and a load-carrying basket for...

DPMSHVI students win Divyangjan Talent Hunt

CHIMPU, Dec 10: Class 9 student of Chimpu-based Donyi Polo Mission School for the Hearing & Visually Impaired (DPMSHVI), Pura Maye, won the All...

Withdraw ‘discriminatory’, ‘divisive’ CAB: Artistes, writers, ex-judges to govt

NEW DELHI, Dec 10: About 600 artistes, writers, academicians, ex-judges and former bureaucrats have asked the government to withdraw the citizenship amendment bill, terming...

Anti-CAB protests rock Northeast

GUWAHATI, Dec 10: Large parts of the Northeast on Tuesday simmered over protests by student unions and left-democratic organisations against the contentious citizenship amendment...

LS passes bill to extend SC-ST quota in legislatures

NEW DELHI, Dec 10: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday unanimously passed a constitution amendment bill to extend reservation to scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled...

Aalo hit by water crisis

AALO, Dec 10: Consumers in West Siang HQ Aalo have been facing severe shortage of water supply for a week now, after the town's...

Complaint lodged against BRO

BOMDILA, Dec 10: The West Kameng Indigenous People's Society (WKIPS) has lodged a complaint with the deputy commissioner here against the Border Roads Organisation...

Villagers pledge to stop growing poppy

LAZU, Dec 10: Villagers of Lazu circle in Tirap district have pledged to shun poppy cultivation and embrace cash crops instead. The pledge was administered...

Doc nun receives int’l human rights award

NEW DELHI, Dec 10: A missionary nun, Dr Rose Tom, who works in Arunachal, was conferred the International Human Rights Award-2019 by the International...

Dr Nyada Mara receives lifetime achievement award

ITANAGAR, Dec 10: Dr Nyada Mara, dental consultant at the RKM Hospital here, was conferred the lifetime achievement award during the recently concluded 11th...

Zonal meeting on MMRKK held

NAMSAI, Dec 10: The first zonal review meeting on the Mukhya Mantri Rogi Kalyan Kosh (MMRKK) for 2018-19 was held here on 9 December. During...

Will new policy meet target?

Right to Water By Dhurjati Mukherjee Yet another National Water Policy is on the anvil. The Union Water Resources Ministry has finalised a 10-member committee under chairmanship...