Politics / Arunachal

ITANAGAR, April 27 ? In a significant political development, Arunachal Chief Minister, Mukut Mithi sacked his Fisheries Minister Kameng Dolo from his council of his ministers on Friday night. In an official press communique here today, state Governor Arvind Dave accepted the recommendation of the Chief Minister. After taking this bold political decision, Mithi is away on a four-day official tour to Upper Subansiri district of the state. The reason for sacking Dolo is not known. Dolo was the seniormost Nyishi minister in Mithi?s ministry till he was axed yesterday. Last year the Chief Minister...

GUWAHATI, April 11 ? Representatives of the Nyishi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh and Bodos in the hill State and Assam today held a meeting in Itanagar to evolve ways to put an end to the clashes and conflicts between the two communities in Arunachal Pradesh. The joint meeting which was held at the Banquet Hall in Itanagar called for restoration of peace and harmony by putting an end to all sorts of unwanted incidents of kidnapping, torture, extortion etc. that had strained the relationship between the two communities and pledged to work unitedly to prevent recurrence of such incidents in inter...

ITANAGAR, April 7 ? Arunachal Pradesh has armed itself against crime syndicates, extremists, and anti-national elements with the State Cabinet approving the Arunachal Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Ordinance, 2002, which provides for capital punishment, reports PTI. The Ordinance, given the nod yesterday, will be notified after gubernatorial assent, Government spokesman Takam Sanjoy told newsmen here today. The Ordinance would be in tune with Maharashtra?s Prevention of Ordinanised Crime Act was against anti-social and anti-national activities by certain organisations and militant...

ITANAGAR, April 3 ? Congress Chief Minister Mukut Mithi has written a letter to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee urging him to prevent the underground faction of National Socialist Council of Nagaland led by Isaac Muivah from climing that most tribals in the Arunachal Pradesh were Nagas, reports PTI. Government spokesman Takam Sanjoy told newsmen today that Mithi had informed his cabinet about the letter yesterday at a meeting. The NSCN(IM), he said, had claimed in printed material circulated that most tribals in Arunachal were Nagas, he said. He said, Arunachal Governor Arvind Dave had...

NAHARLAGUN, March 26 ? The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly adopted The Arunachal Pradesh Commission for Women Bill 2002 on Thursday, facilitating the empowerment of women and for their allround development. ?The basic purpose of the Bill is to provide for the constitution of women?s Commission in the state of Arunachal Pradesh to improve the status of women and to enquire into unfair practices affecting women and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto,? Tadak Dolum, Minister incharge for Social Welfare, Women and Child Development, said. ?This Bill of it becomes an Act...

DIBRUGARH, March 17 ? The simmering inter-state border dispute at the Koriapani area near Margherita has cooled down after cordial meetings between senior civil officials of Tinsukia district and Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. There have been reports that some miscreants encroached into Assam territory at Koriapani recently and declared that the place was a part of Arunachal Pradesh. On Friday, the Tinsukia DC, Samir Kumar Sinha and his Changlang counterpart, Talem Tapok, aided by the Margherita civil SDO, Ratul Chandra Duarah, sat in a friendly meeting and discussed the fracas and...

ITANAGAR, March 9 ? Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mukut Mithi today said that one-third of the total number of seats in gram panchayats, anchal samitis and zilla parishads in the State would be reserved for women for their empowerment at the grass root level. The reservation, in accordance with Panchayat Raj Act 1997, was notified on April 30 after receiving the assent of President K R Narayan, he said inaugurating a 10-day photo exhibition on women and child welfare organised by the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity here. He regretted that women had not been given their...

NEW DELHI, Feb 15 — CBI files case against ex-chief engineer a former Chief Engineer of Arunachal Pradesh Government and seven firms for allegedly conspiring and causing a loss of crores of rupees to the State Government. The CBI, after filing an FIR, also raided the residential premises of the former Chief Engineer in Chandigarh and official premises of these companies and seized some documents, agency sources said here. According to the FIR filed by the CBI, the former Chief Engineer Darshan Singh had allegedly abused his official position and conspired with Hydro Power Equipment, Johrat,...

ITANAGAR, Feb 2 — Assistant Commandant of India Reserve Battalion, Kime Kameng was arrested on January 27 last for allegedly raping a 13-year-old local girl in his official residence at Khonsa, headquarters of Tirap district, official sources said here on Friday, reports PTI. Kime was produced in a local court the same day and remanded to judicial custody for 11 days. However, the victim belonging to nearby Dadam village was sent for medical checkup after a complaint was lodged on January 26 the day of the incident, the sources added. When contacted state IGP Deep Chand said departmental...

ITANAGAR, April 30: The Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet has decided to move the Supreme Court against the Assam Government for violations of "status-quo" in the borders areas by carrying out repeated evictions of dwelling houses of innocent Arunachalis living in adjoining areas of Assam by its police and forest officials in the pretext of border row. The decision to this effect was taken in a cabinet meeting held here today under the chairmanship of state Chief Minister Mukut Mithi. The Cabinet has decided to move the country's apex Court against the Assam Government for repeated violation of...