CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Titled ‘Arun Bhoomi’, the daily will be published and edited by Takam Sonia, who also heads the Arunachal Hindi Sanstha, an organization working for promotion and propagation of Hindi language in the state.

Detailed explanation-2: -Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu launched the state’s first Hindi newspaper ‘Arun Bhoomi’, which will be published and edited by Takam Sonia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Udant Martand (from Hindi, “The Rising Sun”) is the first Hindi language newspaper published in India. Started on 30 May 1826, from Calcutta (now Kolkata), the weekly newspaper was published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla.

Detailed explanation-4: -Late Lummer Dai was the first person in Arunachal who introduced the first newspaper published from Itanagar; The Echo of Arunachal. Little wonder then he can be described as the architect of media in the state and also the architect of the IPR department.