It further informed that this will be a significant boost to the peace process in Manipur. The peace agreement was signed
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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.Bio-village 2.0 brings applaud for Tripura
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.
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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.
Allow 29 medical students to enroll in Assam, Meghalaya
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 consistent policy to treat Dalai Lama as an honoured guest: MEA
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
IMD to set up 100 weather stations in Arunachal Pradesh, near LAC
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