Daily Archives: September 23, 2023

China bars Arunachal athletes from Asian Games

Khandu meets PM; AOA writes to IOA ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: Three martial art (wushu) players from Arunachal Pradesh have been forced to pull out of...

Thousands participate in candlelight march for Koj Bukar

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: Thousands of people from various community-based organisations and student organisations joined a candlelight march in solidarity with the bereaved family...

APTUF announces phase-wise strike

Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: The Arunachal Pradesh Trade Union Federation (APTUF) on Friday announced a "phase-wise strike, with the first phase of peaceful dharna...

Democracy, debate, and division: Inside RGUSU election-2023

In a historic departure from its tradition, Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) bore witness to its first-ever mass-scale student union election this year, on 21...

Project Brahmank CE inspects road and bridge works in U/Siang

YINGKIONG, 22 Sep: The Border Roads Organisation's (BRO) Project Brahmank Chief Engineer Ajay Kumar Mishra inspected all the ongoing road and bridge works in...

Ayurvedic therapeutic plant rediscovered in Arunachal’s forest

ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: Botanists recently rediscovered the smilax turbans, a long-lost plant species akin to a well-known Ayurvedic therapeutic plant, in the pristine forests...

Joram-Koloriang highway will be completed by 31 Mar: NHIDCL

KOLORIANG, 22 Sep: The National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) has assured that the construction of the Joram-Koloriang highway will be completed...

FCI to e-auction surplus stocks of rice, wheat

ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: To moderate the market prices of wheat and rice, the union consumer affairs, food & public distribution ministry has decided to...

Drug peddlers nabbed with suspected heroin

ZIRO, 22 Sep: The police here in Lower Subansiri district arrested three drug peddlers recently and seized 26 gms of suspected heroin from their...

Guv launches ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat – Nasha Mukt Arunachal Abhiyan’

ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: Governor KT Parnaik launched the state-level 'Nasha Mukt Bharat - Nasha Mukt Arunachal Abhiyan' on Friday. The launch programme, which was organised...

Blood donation camps organised

Correspondent RUKSIN, 22 Sep: The East Siang district health department on Friday organised simultaneous voluntary blood donation camps at Bakin Pertin General Hospital (BPGH) in...

Millet recipes contest

YINGKIONG, 22 Sep: Women from five anganwadis participated in a millet recipes contest organised at the CDPO office here in Upper Siang district by...

Arunachali youths in NCC football team selected for U-14 Subroto Cup C’ship

PASIGHAT, 22 Sep: Four youths from Arunachal Pradesh have been selected and trained by the NCC Group HQ in Dibrugarh (Assam) and the Indian...

Orientation prog for preprimary school teachers ends

ITANAGAR, 22 Sep: The state-level 'induction-cum-orientation' programme for the third batch of preprimary schoolteachers ended at DK Convention Centre here on Friday. The programme saw...

Progress of projects reviewed

AALO, 22 Sep: The progress of various developmental projects in West Siang district was reviewed during a meeting of the district-level monitoring committee, chaired...

Khandu calls on Modi, thanks him for making women’s quota reality

NEW DELHI, 22 Sep: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and congratulated him for the passage...

NIT-Silchar director meets students, assures action

SILCHAR, 22 Sep: NIT-Silchar Director Dilip Kumar Baidya on Friday met the students who are on an indefinite hunger strike over the alleged suicide...

Decline of Parliament

By Inder Jit (Released on April 8, 1980) Parliament and its functioning is regrettably not receiving from its sovereign masters, the people, the close attention it...