Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of S D Loda Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. The state of Arunachal Pradesh and Itanagar Municipal Corporation was directed by the NGT, April 8, 2025 to file their counter affidavits on the setting …
Itanagar: Advocating for plantation of more trees to protect forest resources of the state from imminent extinction, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu on Sunday stressed on the need for strict monitoring of National Afforestation Programmes implemented by forest development agencies. Addressing the two-day conference of senior forest officers which …
AALO, Dec 13: The water treatment plant for Aalo, headquarters of West Siang district, was inaugurated with much fanfare in January 2007 with Union Minister of state for Commerce Jairam Ramesh dedicating it in presence of a beaming Chief Minister Gegong Apang. Two years later, the plant is still running …
The placid Siang or the Dihang, as the Brahmaputra is called in Arunachal Pradesh, flows quietly under an old-style swing bridge just before Tuting. ONLY seven rivers that rise in Tibet flow through India. They are the Indus, the Satluj, the Karnali (through Nepal), the Subansiri, the Brahmaputra and the …
ROING, Dec 3: An outbreak of some common diseases of cattle has been reported in Anpum, Bizari and Paglam areas under Dambuk sub division of Lower Dibang Valley district since a week. Reacting promptly, the district administration directed the Veterinary department to take stock of the situation. Official sources today …
In a secluded part of Arunachal Pradesh, local community members have joined hands with WWF-India to usher in changes that would ensure sustainability for both nature and human beings. Remarkably, the pioneering effort
ITANAGAR, Nov 24: Though the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vaidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) was started early in the State, the actual progress of work at the ground is almost zero and the scheme is yet to start in many areas. In a bid to have a grip on the deplorable situation, …
ITANAGAR, Nov 24: Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh gave away the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) awards to ten Gram Panchayats in a glittering ceremony, organized by the Public Health Engineering Department, at the banquet hall of Raj Bhavan here today. Quoting Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Singh said,
Trying to keep pace with the infrastructure development in Tibet by China, the Border Road Organisation (BRO) is constructing 61 roads along Indo-China border covering a total length of 3377 Km in five States including Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. With reports of intrusions pouring in from Arunachal Pradesh top priority …
Voluntary organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) today made an appeal to the Union Environment and Forest Ministry not to accord any permission to build any mega dam on the Lohit river in Arunachal Pradesh. Or else, it has warned a vigorous movement to resist such projects. The KMSS said …
Review reveals mismatch between State health service and Central guidelines ITANAGAR, Nov 12: Newly-appointed Health & Family Welfare Minister Tanga Byaling today assured to provide the State share of funds needed to implement health service schemes in the State, particularly the 15% share in implementating the National Rural Health Mission …
Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has committed that the public sector hydro and thermal power projects would be converted into instruments of social development with the new policy of the Centre to allocate one percent of the total project cost for rehabilitation and development of the persons affected by …
ITANAGAR, Nov 11: The success of welfare policies and programmes of the Government depends on its proper implementation at the grass root level. This was highlighted at the inaugural function of the 4-day Public Information Campaign on Bharat Nirman at the Multipurpose Cultural Complex, Kimin in Papum Pare district today. …
In a fresh attempt to cut down delays in implementation of National Highway Projects, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to appoint Executive Directors (EDs) at Guwahati, besides seven other zones all over the country, Union Ministry of Road Transport and National Highway, Kamal Nath announced here …
Despite mounting evide-nce of China undertaking construction of dams, purportedly to divert the Brahmaputra river, India today reiterated its stand that Beijing is
The National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) confirmed on Tuesday that construction was on at the Zangmu site on the Chinese side of the Brahmaputra river, prompting the government to take up the matter with China at a
