Yearly Archives: 2024

Guv urges people to participate in Earth Hour

ITANAGAR, 22 Mar: Governor KT Parnaik has urged the people of the state to participate in Earth Hour, describing it as "a very vital...

Over Rs 31 lakhs, liquor seized in Pasighat

PASIGHAT, 22 Mar: A total of 31,95,700 in cash, in addition to IMFL worth approximately Rs 32,410, were seized by the flying squad over...

Guv presents citation to 6th Bn AR

ITANAGAR, 22 Mar: Governor KT Parnaik on Friday presented the Governor's Citation to the 6th Bn Assam Rifles (AR) at the Raj Bhavan here...

NGOs conduct IEC campaign to mark WWD

ITANAGAR, 22 Mar: In observance of the World Water Day (WWD), fieldworkers of NGOs Youth Mission for Clean River (YMCR) and Abralow Memorial Multipurpose...

RO advocates coordination between magistrates, police

ITANAGAR, 22 Mar: Itanagar Capital Region Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer (RO) Shweta Nagarkoti urged the sector magistrates and the police to "work in...

Training prog on buckwheat, quinoa cultivation

BASAR, 22 Mar: The ICAR's research complex here in Leparada district organised a training programme on 'Cultivation and production practices of buckwheat and quinoa...

World Water Day observed

KHONSA, 22 Mar: The public health engineering department (PHED) in Tirap district, in collaboration with four gram panchayats, observed the World Water Day (WWD)...

EEOs hold consultative meetings

DAPORIJO/YINGKIONG/PASIGHAT, 22 Mar: Election expenditure observer (EEO) Kalpesh Kumar Rupavatiya held a consultative meeting with the members of different teams and functionaries under the...

Training prog on plant health

NAMSAI, 22 Mar: Thirty-two farmers and farmwomen participated in a training programme on 'Plant health clinic', organised by the Namsai Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)...

Seminar on folktales, myths of Arunachal

PASIGHAT, 22 Mar: The postgraduate English department of Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNC) here in East Siang district organised a national seminar on 'Exploring the...

World Tuberculosis Day observed

TEZU, 22 Mar: The World TB Day was observed at the Govt Primary School (GPS) in Jhalukbari village in Lohit district on 22 March...

Students taken on ‘nature trail’

TEZU, 22 Mar: Tezu (Lohit)-based Bamboosa Library and Roing (LDV)-based NGO AMYAA conducted a 'nature trail' for students of Tezu on Friday, marking the...

Awareness prog on millets held

LONGDING, 22 Mar: Thirty members of different women SHGs participated in an awareness programme on nutritional importance of millets, organised by the Longding KVK...

Mountaineers Priya Kumari and Pradeep Kumar, both from UP, are on a bicycle tour of all the Northeastern states to raise awareness about menstrual...

Expanding VVPAT facility justified

With the general elections round the corner, the debate on the electronic voting machines (EVM) has once again come to the fore, much of...

Claims and Poll Prospects

Land 'Grab', 'Acquisition' By Inder Jit (Released on 25 September 1979) Predictably if prematurely, the poll guessing game is on again. Anyone who even looks like having...

Collective indifference to bigotry

Editor, Far from condemning the barbaric assault on foreign students without any ifs and buts, or expressing minimum apology for failing to protect the human...

‘OBC Bharatiya Gathbandhan’ extends support to INDIA bloc ahead of LS polls

New Delhi, 22 Mar: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, an all-India "grand alliance" of backwards' organisations, "OBC Bharatiya Gathbandhan", extended unconditional support to...

Unfortunate if my caste brought up during campaigning in Beed: Pankaja Munde

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar,22 Mar: The BJP’s Beed Lok Sabha candidate Pankaja Munde on Friday said it is unfortunate if her caste is brought up during...

LS polls: BJP announces support to regional parties in Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland

New Delhi, 22 Mar: The BJP on Friday announced its support to the ruling National People's Party (NPP) in Meghalaya in both the Lok...