{"id":259347,"date":"2025-02-23T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=259347"},"modified":"2025-02-23T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:35:44","slug":"storytelling-competition-organised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/storytelling-competition-organised\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytelling competition organised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Feb 22:<\/strong> Thirty-three school students from across the Itanagar Capital Region participated in a storytelling competition organised by the Public Libraries Department here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the participants, Public Libraries Director Yanga Rigia Ete urged them to make visiting libraries a habit and prioritise reading books over excessive mobile phone usage. Highlighting the importance of reading to expand one&#8217;s knowledge and understanding of the world, she exhorted the students to visit the library, especially during school vacations, and said that &#8220;the library now houses a vast collection of knowledgeable and insightful books for young minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the gathering as a resource person on mental health for children, Dr Leeyir Ete emphasised that books can be great companions for students, helping them overcome loneliness and providing a positive diversion through engaging stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assistant Director of Public Libraries Toko Api,Deputy Director of Public Libraries Yayum Riba, and ADPL Yajap Kena also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The winners of the competition were Kushi Panka of Vivekananda Central School (1st position), Ramakrishna Public School&#8217;s (RKPS) Tacha Rikam (2nd position), Afrina Begum, Upper Primary School, C-Sector, Itanagar (3rd position), Soumya Kumari of VCS (4th position), and Tana Maz of RKPS (5th position).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Feb 22: Thirty-three school students from across the Itanagar Capital Region participated in a storytelling competition organised by the Public Libraries Department here on Friday. Addressing the participants, Public Libraries Director Yanga Rigia Ete urged them to make visiting libraries a habit and prioritise reading books over excessive mobile phone usage. Highlighting the importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}