Daily Archives: December 11, 2023

Video of severely punished Acharyakulam schoolchildren emerges; teacher expelled

SEIJOSA, 10 Dec: A video of children with severe injury marks inflicted by a teacher surfaced on social media on Sunday, leading to massive...

Hydropower: Balancing development and ecological fragility

Monday Musing In September 2017, the NITI Aayog CEO, after famously taking a chopper ride, announced a 10,000 MW hydropower project in the Siang river....

Rijiju inaugurates nat’l seismological observatory in Bomdila

BOMDILA, 10 Dec: Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday inaugurated the country's 158th national seismological observatory here in West Kameng district. The inauguration...

Art master mummifies bodies of Buddhist spiritual leaders

BOMDILA, 10 Dec: Two Buddhist spiritual leaders, whose bodies had been mummified by art master Phuntsok Tsering, remain preserved to this day. Tsering, a Buddhist...

India preparing to become world leader: Guv

ITANAGAR, 10 Dec: Governor KT Parnaik greeted the people on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and said that...

Students visit military station

PASIGHAT, 9 Dec: Forty-five students and three professors of the Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) here in East Siang district were provided with firsthand insight...

Legal awareness prog conducted

MENGIO, 10 Dec: NGO Friends of Life organised a legal awareness programme here in Papum Pare district on Sunday, in collaboration with the Arunachal...

Rade, Talik reach QFs of 1st Khelo India Para Games

ITANAGAR, 10 Dec: Bamang Rade and Dangu Talik of Arunachal Pradesh entered into the singles' quarterfinals of the first Khelo India Para Games-2023 in...

Govt committed to development of rural communities: Rijiju

DIRANG, 10 Dec: Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday visited a Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra (VBSY) programme at Rama Camp here in...

APLS organises open mic prog

PASIGHAT, 10 Dec: The East Siang district unit of the Arunachal Pradesh Literary Society (APLS) organised an 'open mic' programme here on Saturday. A number...

Drug awareness prog organised

AALO, 10 Dec: The Alumni Association of SFS College (AASFSC), led by its president Kappil Kamsi, organised a 'drug awareness-cum-career counselling' programme at Angu...

Freedom for Tibet is justice for Tibet

Many Indian leaders, apart from the Indian people, have supported the cause of Tibetan freedom movement, against the unjust Chinese regime of oppression and...

BJP using underhanded tactics to silence strong opposition voices

The expulsion of TMC MP Mahua Moitra from the Lok Sabha over the alleged cash-for-query allegation shows that the present BJP regime at the...

FM’s data, reality varies

Glitter is Not Gold By Shivaji Sarkar Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has projected a promising economy that could take the country to a path of...

India has adopted a holistic approach towards conservation: Env min

DUBAI, 10 Dec: India has adopted a holistic approach towards conservation, for which it has not just focused on reducing emissions to tackle temperature...

Royal Bengal tiger spotted in Sikkim

GANGTOK, 10 Dec: A Royal Bengal tiger was spotted in Pangalokha Wildlife Sanctuary in Sikkim, at an altitude of 3,640 metres, officials said. The Pangalokha...

Over 300 Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar arrive in Indonesia’s Aceh region after weeks at...

ACEH BESAR, Indonesia, 10 Dec: Two boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya Muslims, including emaciated women and children, arrived at Indonesia’s northernmost province of...

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy heads to Argentina in bid to win support from developing nations

KYIV, Ukraine, 10 Dec (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is heading to Buenos Aires to witness the swearing-in on Sunday of Argentina’s new president,...

UN says the Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan, 10 Dec (AP): The Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan, the U.N. mission in the country said Sunday...

Philippines says Chinese coast guard assaulted its vessels with water cannons for a second...

MANILA, Philippines, 10 Dec (AP): The Chinese coast guard assaulted Philippine vessels with water cannon blasts Sunday and rammed one of them, causing damage...