Daily Archives: October 9, 2020

APPSC set to conduct foolproof exam based on past experiences

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: The Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) has taken all precautions, based on past experiences, to conduct a foolproof examination...

State records 22nd Covid-related casualty

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: A 58-year-old male who had tested positive for Covid-19 passed away on Thursday morning at the dedicated Covid hospital (DCH) in...

15 arrested for assaulting, harassing woman

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Oct 8: Fifteen persons were arrested by the police on 3 October for physically assaulting and harassing a woman in Sompoi-II village...

17 test Covid-19+ve in Balinong ITI, institute declared containment zone

BALINONG, Oct 8: Two weeks after the reopening of the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Balinong in Changlang district, 17 persons there have reportedly...

Activist questions LDV DC, says an independent body should have done social auditing

ROING, Oct 8: Social activist Vijay Pertin, who had recently alleged that the Lower Dibang Valley (LDV) deputy commissioner had mismanaged the district's Covid...

CM holds meeting with health dept on strategies to contain spread of Covid-19

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday held a meeting with officers of the health department to discuss strategies to contain the...

Endangered Bhutan Glory butterfly released

ZIRO, Oct 8: Lower Subansiri Deputy Commissioner Swetika Sachan on Wednesday released a full-grown Bhutan Glory butterfly into its natural habitat. Rare and endangered, the...

Balijan beset by scarcity of potable water

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: Balijan ADC headquarters in Papum Pare district is reeling under a drinking water crisis for the last two days after the...

Nyomdir-Beye road blocked for 20 days

AALO, Oct 8: The Ngomdir-Beye PMGSY road in West Siang district is blocked for the last 20 days, making it difficult for commuters to...

Ngandam unhappy with slow progress of PMGSY projects

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: RWD Minister Honchun Ngandam has expressed serious concern over the slow progress of several ongoing projects under the Pradhan Mantri Gram...

Health dept withdraws docs from check gates

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: The health department has withdrawn the doctors from the check gates of the state, while medical teams with minimum staffs will...

Committee repairs damaged bridge

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: The All Modirijo Development Committee (AMDC) conducted a social service here on Thursday to repair the Bailey bridge which connects the...

Indian Army scales Mt Kangto-6

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: A team of the Indian Army scaled Mt Kangto-6 last week. The peak is 20,700 ft above sea level, and is...

Teachers urged to be role models

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: Educationist Dr VN Sharma appealed to teachers to be role models, "not only in imparting education to the students, rather to...

ACF appeals to CM to resolve Tawang incident

ITANAGAR, Oct 8: Stating that "the recent incident in Tawang has sent a very wrong message outside the state that could dent its hard-earned...

DC takes stock of infra development

YUPIA, Oct 8: Papum Pare DC Pige Ligu on Thursday visited Balijan subdivision to take stock of the progress of the infrastructure development there. Accompanied...

Power tillers distributed

CMAMP PALIN, Oct 8: Kra Daadi DC S Miji distributed power tillers to beneficiaries of the Chief Minister's Agriculture Mechanization Programme in a function...

Solar dryers launched in Namsai

NAMSAI, Oct 8: Local farmers-producers company, the Namsai Organic Spices & Agricultural Products (NOSAAP) Co Ltd conducted a programme on 'solar dryer demonstration, feasibility...

Farmers’ trg conducted by KVK

NAMET, Oct 8: Twenty-eight farmers benefitted from a training programme organized by the Tawang KVK at Namet village on Thursday. Plant protection scientist Lakshmipriya Borah...

The Ramakrishna Mission School in West Siang HQ Aalo distributed utensils, clothes and school stationery to the family affected by the fire accident that...