Monthly Archives: March 2024

Polling functionaries trained

SEPPA, 7 Mar: The first leg of the training programme for the presiding and polling officers of East Kameng district was held here on...

Will recommend NRC implementation in Manipur: CM

IMPHAL, 7 Mar: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Wednesday said that he will send a recommendation to the Centre for implementing the...

Nagaland: ENPO ups ante over separate state demand

KOHIMA, 7 Mar: The Eastern Nagaland Peoples' Organisation (ENPO), which is demanding a separate state carved out of Nagaland, declared a "public emergency" in...

Over 50 Himalayan orgs declare climate disasters result of governance failures

NEW DELHI, 7 Mar: Over 50 social and environmental organisations have jointly declared that climate disasters are systemic and policy-induced, resulting from governance failures...

Govt approves Rs 10,037 cr scheme to promote industrialisation in NE

NEW DELHI, 7 Mar: The government on Thursday approved a Rs 10,037-crore industrial development scheme, Unnati, for the Northeast states. The union cabinet in a...

Mossang inaugurates multipurpose community halls

Pisi Zauing N'HKUMSANG, 7 Mar: Local MLA and UD Minister Kamlung Mossang dedicated two multipurpose community halls to the people of Khagam Singpho and Phup...

AU NSS volunteers win 3rd prize in NE Youth Festival

LEKHI, 7 Mar: Ten NSS volunteers from Arunodaya University (AU) here won the third prize in the one-act play contest organised during the recently...

Wangsu inaugurates multiple projects

KANUBARI, 7 Mar: Local MLA Gabriel D Wangsu inaugurated 57 projects, including an 'open gym', implemented by different departments of Kanubari subdivision in Longding...

Orientation prog under Mission Vatsalya

TEZU, 7 Mar: An orientation programme on the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act & Rules, 2015, the POCSO Act & Rules, 2012, and the Adoption...

Livelihood improvement prog

DEOMALI, 7 Mar: Forty farmers participated in a programme titled 'Livelihood improvement through appropriate agricultural technologies', organised here by the Tirap KVK on Thursday...

Outreach prog on SVEEP held

ITANAGAR, 7 Mar: A 'mini-integrated communication & outreach programme' on the systematic voters' education and electoral participation (SVEEP) was organised by the Himalayan University...

Electoral bonds: Plea seeks action against SBI for disobeying SC’s order

NEW DELHI, 7 Mar: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking contempt action against the State Bank of India (SBI) alleging...

Voter awareness prog organised

JOTE, 7 Mar: The National Institute of Technology here organised a voter awareness programme themed 'Mera pehla vote desh ke liye' from 28 February...

SC has upheld probity in lawmaking

The highest court of the land has finally done a course correction on the issue of ensuring probity in lawmaking. By unequivocally asserting that...

Lip service on nari shakti means nothing

Editor, "The anger of nari shakti will not be confined to Sandeshkhali" - very rightly has this point been uttered by a highly powerful chair. Since...

Caste inequality is an ugly blot

Editor, Three persons allegedly molested an 18-year-old Dalit girl in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, when she was working at a cauldron of a jaggery-making unit in...

Six rabies related deaths

Arunachal has no plan for vaccination ITANAGAR, 6 Mar:  So far, six cases of rabies related deaths have been reported here in the state of...

NEEPCO issues warning as it prepares to release water due to turbine issue

ITANAGAR, 6 Mar: The North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) has proposed to release the water of the Panyor River in its Panyor Lower...

PM Modi to inaugurate strategic Sela Tunnel

ITANAGAR, 6 Mar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to embark on a day-long visit to Arunachal Pradesh on 9 March to inaugurate several...

CM lays foundation stone for central zone divisional commissioner office

BASAR, 6 Mar: Chief Minister Pema Khandu laid the foundation stone for the divisional commissioner (central zone) office here in Leparada district on Wednesday. The...