Daily Archives: June 24, 2024

Heavy rainfall causes extensive damages in ICR

ITANAGAR, 23 Jun: A sudden surge of heavy rainfall on Sunday caused blockages, landslides, and flooding in various locations of Itanagar. In response, the Itanagar...

Late teacher’s ashes immersed in Shergaon river

ITANAGAR, 23 Jun: In a moving gesture, a former teacher's ashes were immersed in the river at the place where he had started his...

AOA celebrates Int’l Olympic Day

Cabinet approves launch of Arunachal Olympic Sports Mission: CM YUPIA, 23 Jun: The Arunachal Olympic Association (AOA) celebrated the International Olympic Day by felicitating the...

APP fields 23 athletes for 9th All India Police Judo Cluster

ITANAGAR, 23 Jun: The Arunachal Pradesh Police (APP) has fielded 23 athletes for the 9th All India Police Judo Cluster, scheduled to be held...

Unions continue fight against drugs menace

It is a known fact that the business of drug trafficking has blossomed in all the northeastern states and the respective state governments of...

Time to stop manmade disasters

Monday Musing Merely two hours of heavy downpour of 40 millimetres was enough to wreak havoc in Itanagar and Naharlagun, leaving trails of destruction, on...

FPG opens sale of organic vegetables

TAWANG, 23 Jun: The farmers-producers group (FPG) of Tawang opened the sale of organic vegetables at the Sunday weekly market here on Sunday. The event...

NEET row: NTA DG shunted out; Centre orders CBI probe

NEW DELHI, 23 Jun: Facing flak over alleged discrepancies in competitive exams, the Centre on Saturday shunted out National Testing Agency (NTA) director General...

Marathon race marks International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

TEZU, 23 Jun: The Kri Welfare Society organised a marathon race, themed 'Say no to drugs and yes to life', for both men and...

Priests are backbone of society: MLA

PASIGHAT, 23 Jun: "Priests are the backbone of society and are responsible for the growth of the indigenous religion," said Pasighat East MLA Tapi...

Workshop on MPLADS fund flow

NEW DELHI, 23 Jun: Representatives of all states and union territories participated in a two-day workshop for master trainers on implementation of the revised...

Plantation prog organised

Correspondent DAPORIJO, 23 Jun: More than 500 saplings were planted during a 'mass plantation programme' organised at the Donyi Jaaring festival ground here in Upper...

Textbooks being tweaked to discourage critical thinking

Distorting history to suit its political agenda has been a defining feature of the BJP's strategy. School textbooks become easy targets for such ideological...

Good, bad & the misunderstood

Statistical Estimation By Rajiv Gupta What public event has the active participation of 640 million people, with even a larger number of spectators? If you guessed...

The poor are weighed down under India’s tax policies 

Editor, Rising inequality is the most pressing problem India is facing now. The French economist, Thomas Piketty and others observed, "The Billionaire Raj headed by...

The desperate Left Front

Editor, The zealous assertion of the Left parties, equating the BJP with the TMC on the scale of communalism, is absolutely foolish, to say the...

Two CoBRA personnel killed in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district as Naxals blow up truck

Sukma, 23 Jun: Two personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force’s jungle warfare unit CoBRA were killed after Naxalites blew up a truck with...

Ukrainian drones and missiles kill 4 in Russia and Crimea, fresh bombing of Kharkiv...

KYIV, Ukraine, 23 Jun: Russian authorities said four people died in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Sunday, while the second day of Russia’s...

Netanyahu again claims the US is withholding arms shipments, days after Washington denies it

TEL AVIV, Israel, 23 Jun: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that there had been a “dramatic drop” in U.S....

Over 1,000 pilgrims died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, officials say

CAIRO, 23 Jun: More than 1,000 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at...