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It further informed that this will be a significant boost to the peace process in Manipur. The peace agreement was signed by senior officers of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the government of Manipur with the representatives of ZUF in the august presence of Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh. According to the Union Home Ministry, the agreement provides for rehabilitation and re-settlement of armed cadres.

A brief felicitation function was held at ASSAM RIFLES base in Aizawl’s Khatla locality during which the war veteran turned journalist was honoured with a trophy and other rewards. Pachuau was declared the “oldest working journalist in India” by Mizoram’s Information and Public Relations Department and Mizoram Journalists’ Association (MJA) in 2016.

Tripurahas been lauded for having the first modified bio-village in the country with the use of eco-friendly technology and assembling , agri and agri-allied, aqua support and maximum use of non-renewable sources of energy.
A London-based international non-government research organisation Climate Group working across the country recognised the eco-friendly technology used in the bio-village as one of the 10 best practices in the world.

This is one of the five successful bio-village 2.0 conceptualised in Tripura after the BJP-led government came to power and adopted the Climate Change mitigation endeavour of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Tripura has already implemented the bio-village 2.0 components across 10 villages where over a thousand marginalised people were targeted to modify their lifestyle and livelihood to an adaptive behaviour of nature-based technology promoted by the directorate of bio-technology.

As the ethnic strife worsens in violence-hitManipur, theRegional Institute of Medical Sciences(RIMS), Imphal, has sent an SOS to the Union Health ministry, urging authorities to facilitate 29 medical students in UG and PG classes inMeghalayaand Assam, saying the situation was not conducive for them to return to class in the roiled state.

These tribal students fled Imphal during the violence and feared returning andRIMS Imphalconveyed to the ministry that alternate arrangement of classes in the institute or in other institutes in the state may not be feasible.

In a letter to joint secretary (NE) of health ministry on Friday, RIMS deputy director (admin) Naorem Indrakumar Singh said the classes of UG and PG students resumed in RIMS Imphal since May 22, but 29 UG and PG students (17 MBBS UG, six BDS UG and six PG students) are now unable to attend classes/duties due to the prevailing unrest.

The deputy director said alternate arrangement of classes in RIMS Imphal or in any institute of the Manipur government may not be feasible and sought the ministry’s intervention in making alternative arrangements outside the state, including seeking permission from the NMC for the affected students to continue their study in NEIGRIHMS in Shillong, six BDS UG students in Regional Dental College in Guwahati and six PG students at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital or another institutes.

India has a consistent policy of treating the Dalai Lama as a respected religious leader and an honoured guest in the country, theministry of external affairssaid.

The assertion, in response to a question, came two days after Prime MinisterNarendra Modicalled up the Tibetan spiritual leader and greeted him on his 86th birthday.

The 14th Dalai Lama has made India his Home since fleeing China in 1959. The Chinese government officials and the Dalai Lama or his representatives have not met in formal negotiations since 2010.
Beijing has in the past accused the Dalai Lama of indulging in “separatist” activities and trying to split Tibet and considers him as a divisive figure.

The IMD along with the Centre for Earth Sciences andHimalayan Studies(CES & HS) will install 100 automatic weather stations (AWSs) and automatic rain gauge stations (ARGs) for weather predictions in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, some of which may come up in the most inaccessible places close to the LAC bordering China, IMD officials said.
An MoU to this effect was signed between IMD and CES & HS, Arunachal Pradesh government in Itanagar on Monday in the presence of Union minister of earth sciences Kiren Rijiju. “People of Arunachal Pradesh will be benefited with precise weather forecasts and warnings with the increase in meteorological observations in the state,” said Rijiju.

An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 refugees from Myanmar have sought safety in India, a spokesperson for the UN chief has said, as the world body voiced concern over the rising levels of displacement of people since the military coup in the country.

TheUnited Nations Refugee Agency(UNHCR) said that in Myanmar, as of last week, approximately 60,700 Women, children and men have been internally displaced.

Myanmar an over 1,600 km long unfenced and porous land border with India as well as a maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal. Four North-Eastern states – Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur andMizoramshare the international boundary with Myanmar.

The reduction of POVERTY, bettering livelihoods, maintaining cleanliness, promoting green initiatives, and excellent Governance are just a few of the nine categories for which Ngopa received recognition for great performance.

Girl students of Class 6 to 10 in all government schools in will receive self-DEFENCE training, an official said. Girl students would be trained in self-defence to defend themselves, special secretary, Education department, Bhim Thatal said.

Thatal said self-defence training is also to inculcate discipline in the students as well as to prepare them for future obstacles.

Girl students will be trained in taekwondo, karate, boxing and kickboxing, he said.