First-ever Bodoland International Knowledge Festival will be held in BTR from Feb 27The 1st Bodoland International Knowledge Festival 2023 will be held from 27th February to 2nd March 2023 at Kokrajhar. The event is being organized at Bodoland University under the aegis of the Government of the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR). BTR Chief Pramod Boro while mentioning the objective of the festival highlighted the fact that the BTR Peace Accord 2020 has paved the transition of the region from guns to a culture of knowledge.He mentioned that the goal of the festival is to create, foster and promote knowledge exchange, solution sharing, and partnership building for the achievement of social development priorities and key Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 in contemporary BTR and the world. The festival will be inaugurated on 27th March by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus in the presence of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who is also the chief patron of the event. The prominent academic institutions of the NE Region including Central University-Tezpur, Assam Agricultural University, and IIT Guwahati are the knowledge partners of the festival.NORTH-EASTERN STATES

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Arunachal Govt focused on creating job opportunities for youth: Guv

Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt General (Retd) Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik appealed to the people of the State to walk the talk to make Arunachal Pradesh a peaceful and progressive State. In his maiden public address at the 37th Statehood Day function here at IG Park, the Governor said that the is focused on creating job opportunities for the youth, improving the standard of living, maintaining law and order and security of our sensitive border areas.

He said, Arunachal Pradesh has come a long way from being the remote NEFA at the time of Independence to becoming a full-fledged State in 1987 and since then the State has progressed in leaps and bounds.The last few years have witnessed quantum progress and all-round development in the State, he said and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his strategic vision and continued personal focus on the development of the frontier state.