Arunachal Talks

| In an attempt to arrive at a resolution to the decades-long border dispute, the governments of Assam and the Arunachal Pradesh governments on Thursday signed an agreement in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

The agreement was co-signed by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Arunachal counterpart Pema Khandu to resolve the dispute in 123 villages.

Terming the border agreement a “historic” event, Home Minister Shah said that it put an end to a decades-long border dispute. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma described the deal as a “big and successful” moment, while Arunachal CM Khandu called it a “historic” one.

To arrive at an understanding regarding the border dispute, regional committees dealing with specific areas, comprising ministers, local MLAs, and officials from both states were formulated last year.
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| In a miraculous turn of events, renowned Indian woman climber, Baljeet Kamur who was declared dead after she went missing above Camp IV on Mt Annapurna has been found alive after remaining out of radio contact till this morning.

As informed by the Chairman of Pioneer Adventure, Pasang Sherpa, Baljeet Kaur, who scaled the world's tenth-highest peak without using supplemental oxygen has been successfully located by an aerial search team above Camp IV.

An aerial search mission was initiated this morning after Kaur managed to send a radio signal seeking 'immediate help'.

Notifying the media about the rescue plan, Sherpa said, "We are preparing to conduct a long-line rescue to airlift her from above the high camp.”

Sharing further details, Sherpa informed that Kaur’s GPS location has indicated an altitude of 7,375m (24,193ft) and three helicopters have been mobilised to trace the missing mountaineer.

The record-holding climber had climbed Mt Annapurna accompanied by two Sherpa guides at around 5:15 pm yesterday.

Another Indian climber Anurag Maloo, 34, from Kishangargh of Rajasthan, India, fell to his death from around 6,000m while descending from Camp III on the same mountain on Monday.

Meanwhile, Noel Hanna, a 10-time Everest summiteer from Northern Ireland breathed his last at Camp IV of Mt Annapurna after he returned from the summit point last night taking the season's death toll in the world's tenth-highest peak to two.

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The month-long livelihood & enterprise development programme (LEDP) on tailoring organised by the Senyi Apoo Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd (SAMCSL), under the aegis of the Apatani Baptist Church Association (ABA) and backed by the NABARD’s Itanagar-based regional office came to an end on Tuesday.

The vocational training programme organised with the intention of empowering the financially weak rural people by creating employment opportunities witnessed the participation of thirty SHG members.

The ‘valedictory-cum-certificate distribution’ function organised to observe the completion of the month-long programme was attended by multiple dignitaries including NABARD District Development Manager Mewang Lowang, SBI Chief Manager Lok Thappa, SBI LDM AK Choudhary, board members of the ABA, and 30 odd SHG trainees of the SAMCSL.

Shedding more details regarding the programme, the NABARD in its official release stated, “For this training programme, the NABARD supported the cost of the critical common facility in the form of 15 tailoring machines and one interlock machine, besides other training materials to the SAMCSL.”

Furthermore, the trainees were encouraged to be self-dependent and self-employed and establish their own tailoring businesses by availing bank credit under schemes like the Mudra loan.”

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