Daily Archives: April 28, 2021

LDV health dept draws flak for reporting 11 false Covid positives; state’s tally stands...

ROING, 27 Apr: The Lower Dibang Valley (LDV) health department has drawn a lot of flak after people who had tested negative for the...

Four die in road accident

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Four persons were reportedly killed when a Duster car (AR-03-4403) skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge...

Brahmaputra Board starts anti-soil erosion project in E/Siang

PASIGHAT, 27 Apr: The Brahmaputra Board has started a project for the protection of fertile croplands and public properties from flood and soil erosion...

RGURSF requests RGU to reconsider decision to close hostels

Staff Reporter RONO HILLS, 27 Apr: The Rajiv Gandhi University Research Scholars' Forum (RGURSF) on Tuesday requested the RGU authority to reconsider its decision to...

Forum demands CM’s resignation over PIL

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Claiming that Chief Minister Pema Khandu is Respondent No 3 in a public interest litigation (PIL) in a corruption...

NDRF retrieves body of drowned student

ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Personnel of Jorhat (Assam)-based 12th Bn NDRF on Monday retrieved the body of a 21-year-old college student, Mankai Wangpan, who drowned...

CM reviews preparedness for Covid-19

ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Tuesday attended a virtual meeting with all state BJP members to review the Covid-19 situation in...

DC inspects site for reconstruction of houses in Longliang

LONGLIANG, 27 Apr: Tirap Deputy Commissioner Taro Mize on Tuesday inspected the proposed site for reconstruction of houses for the villagers here whose houses...

Felix encourages entrepreneurs to work for state’s development

ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Home Minister Bamang Felix on Tuesday appealed to the young entrepreneurs of the state to work for economic uplift and sustainable...

A lake of opportunities

"For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!" -...

ICR DC tests Covid-19+ve, requests people to get vaccinated

ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) Deputy Commissioner Komkar Dulom, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, has appealed to the public to...

Engineer’s death mourned

RUPA, 27 Apr: The West Kameng district unit of the Arunachal Pradesh Engineering Service Association (APESA) has mourned the demise of Nafra APPWD subdivision...

‘Private varsities should have requisite infrastructure’

ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Arunachal Pradesh Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission (APPEIRC) chairman Marnya Ete said that all the private universities in the state must...

APSCPCR seeks status report on rape of minor in Hapoli

ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: Taking suo moto cognizance of the incident of abduction and rape of a 15-year-old girl from ADC Colony in Hapoli in...

Over 1 crore vaccine doses still available with states, UTs: Centre

NEW DELHI, 27 Apr: More than one crore vaccine doses are still available with states and union territories, and another 80 lakh doses will...

Promoting horticulture ventures in Arunachal

The ‘land of dawn-lit mountains’, Arunachal Pradesh, the eastern most state that receives the first ray of the sun is  located between 26.28° N...

Trg under JJM launched in Ziro

ITANAGAR, 27 Apr: A weeklong skill development training programme under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) was inaugurated by Lower Subansiri DC Somcha Lowang at...

Training prog on integrated farming underway

NAMSAI, 27 Apr: A four-day training programme on 'demonstration on development of model on integrated farming system' and 'water management in agricultural and livestock...

Impose restrictionsto control Covid

Lower Dibang Valley (LDV) and the Itanagar capital region (ICR) are emerging as major hotspots of Covid-19 as the second wave is starting to...

Deleting inequality vital

Digital Divide By Dhurjati Mukherjee Rural poverty in India has been manifest in various studies, specially Oxfam, and the widening income disparity, not just between the...