Monthly Archives: August 2020

MLA, officers visit village

AALO, Aug 25: Aalo East MLA Kento Jini urged the villagers of Doji-Jeli in West Siang district to take up cluster farming and double-cropping...

Prog on natural farming held

TAFRALIANG, Aug 25: Altogether 33 farmers, members of women SHG Brumai and rural youths participated in a training programme on 'Zero budget natural farming'...

Union seeks discussion of its demands in assembly

ITANAGAR, Aug 25: The Arunachal Indigenous Students' Union (AISU) has written to Chief Minister Pema Khandu to table the demands it had placed before...

CoSAAP, alumni mourn Taga

ITANAGAR, Aug 25: The Confederation of Service Associations of Arunachal Pradesh (CoSAAP) has deeply mourned the untimely demise of West Kameng DIPRO Gocham Taga,...

Wise decision to defer bandh call

Much to the relief of the people of the Itanagar capital region (ICR), the proposed capital bandh on 27 and 28 August by the...

Will banks revive Economy?

Growth Imperatives By Dhurjati Mukherjee The health of the banking sector may be difficult to comprehend. Faced with a severe recession, months before the onset of...

Envisage a balanced, healthy Arunachal

Editor, First of all, I am neither against nor for the demands for Mon and Patkai autonomous district councils. Moreover, in my understanding there is...

Antisocial elements planning violence, arson during ANYA bandh, says DGP

ITANAGAR, Aug 24: DGP RP Upadhyaya has claimed that the police have intelligence report of antisocial elements planning to indulge in arson and violence...

TCL unions deplore AAPSU statement on ADC demand

ITANAGAR, Aug 24: Several student bodies of Tirap, Changlang and Longding (TCL) districts have condemned the statement of the All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union...

2 arrested in nursing officers’ exam scam

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Aug 24: The Special Investigation Cell (SIC) has arrested two persons in connection with the alleged malpractices in the exam for contractual...

DIPRO Gocham Taga passes away

ITANAGAR, Aug 24: West Kameng district information & public relations officer (DIPRO) Gocham Taga passed away on Monday morning after suffering a massive stroke. He...

RGU’s mass comm students seek fee concession

Staff Reporter RONO HILLS, Aug 24: The MA 3rd semester students of the mass communication department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here have written to...

490 tests conducted in ICR on Mon

NAHARLAGUN, Aug 24: Four hundred and ninety rapid antigen and RT-PCR tests were conducted in the Itanagar capital region (ICR) on Monday, and eight...

49 new Covid-19 cases reported, 130 discharged

ITANAGAR, Aug 24: Forty-nine new cases of Covid-19 were detected in the state on Monday, while 130 patients were discharged. Five of the 49 cases...

Vet Assn condemns vandalism, seeks early arrest of culprit(s)

ITANAGAR, Aug 24: The Arunachal Pradesh Veterinary Association (APVA) has strongly condemned the vandalizing of the veterinary dispensary here by some unknown miscreant(s) on...

Student bodies support DMPAC’s demand

ROING, Aug 24: The All Idu Mishmi Students' Union and the Dibang Valley District Students' Union on Monday said they have "resolved to take...

Org demands separate dept for Tani clans

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Aug 24: The Abo Tani Clan Organization (ATCO) on Monday demanded that the state government create a department of Abo-Tani traditional and...

JWCAPTU defends APB&OCWWB chairman

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Aug 24: The Joint Working Committee Arunachal Pradesh Trade Union (JWCAPTU) has thrown its weight behind Arunachal Pradesh Building & Other Construction...

28-day-old beats Covid-19

LIKABALI, Aug 24: The youngest to recover from Covid-19 in Arunachal is a 28 days old baby in Lower Siang district. The mother and the...

IJU expresses concern over shutdown of Meghalaya daily

NEW DELHI, Aug 24: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has expressed concern over the random shutdown of The Shillong Times daily by the East...