Itanagar, Apr 9 (UNI) Asserting that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that ‘no country can grab an inch of land of the country’. Stating that there was no phase called infrastructure development during the Congress regime, Singh, without taking the name of China or Pakistan,…
Itanagar, Mar 31 (UNI) After ten Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates were elected to Arunachal Pradesh state Assembly unopposed and 41 candidates withdrew their candidature on Saturday, altogether 133 contestants remained in the fray for the remaining 50 Assembly seats in the hilly Northeastern state, election officials said on Sunday. Saturday (March 30) was the…
Itanagar, Mar 30 (UNI) As the tradition of getting elected unopposed to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly continues unabated, with the ‘money culture’ playing a key role, a cross-section of society aired diverse opinions regarding elections, the festival of democracy. Arunachal Pradesh graduated to the trend of sending MLAs to the State Assembly uncontested in…
Itanagar, Mar 9 (UNI) In yet another ‘shocker’ for the Congress party, former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki on Friday resigned as the president of the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) ahead of the upcoming general elections. Tuki sent his resignation letter to the All India Congress Committee (AICC) days after the recent…
Itanagar, Mar 9 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the previous Congress-led UPA government for ‘neglecting’ the development of the country’s border villages. “While the country needed to build modern infrastructure on its borders, the then Congress government was busy doing scams. The Congress was playing with the country’s security by keeping the…
Itanagar, Feb 12 (UNI) Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Kiren Rijiju on Monday handed over appointment letters to 23 newly inducted appointees in various departments and ministries of the Central Government in a Rozgar Mela held at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force’s North East Frontier Headquarters here. Rijiju distributed the job letters to the new…
Itanagar, Dec 30 (UNI) Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt General (Retd) KT Parnaik on Saturday visited the border post at Pangsau Pass in Changlang district along the Indo-Myanmar border and interacted with the security forces posted there. The Governor advised the security forces to stay alert and vigilant to avert any untoward incident in their area…
Itanagar, Dec 23 (UNI) Union Minister and Lok Sabha MP from Arunachal Pradesh, Kiren Rijiju said that Government and the security forces will not spare anyone found involved in the former MLA Yumsen Matey murder case, asserting that the ruling dispensation never compromises on safety, security of the nation and its people. “We (Central Government)…
Itanagar, Nov 10 (UNI) Amidst the ongoing festival season, the Arunachal Pradesh government has increased the Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for state government employees and pensioners by 4 percent. The 4 percent hike, effective July 1, 2023, takes the DA and DR to 46 percent from the existing 42 percent of basic…
Itanagar, Nov 8 (UNI) The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Arunachal Pradesh has swept the Panchayat by-election by securing over 72 per cent Gram Panchayat (GP) seats, besides winning both the Zilla Parishad (ZP) constituencies in the recently held election, the results of which were declared on Wednesday. Remarkably, of the 54 GP constituencies…
