Village celebrates “Tulsidas Jayanti”, while city forgets

the government and the city completely forgot to remeber the prolofic writer, a writer who shaped the thinking of generasl masses through his work but a remote village in Uttarakhand remeberd it. "MUSSOORIE, 9 Aug: A symposium in honour of Goswami Tulsidas, the author of...

American journalist deported from Aceh

" An American freelance journalist believed to be linked with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has been deported from Aceh after attempting to enter the province on Feb. 8. It marks the fifth deportation for 50-year-old Willian Nessen since he was first barred from...

Police besiege hideout of armed robbers in Aceh

"Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - Hundreds of police personnel with the support of military troops and local residents besought a location suspected to be a hideout of armed robbers in Tumpui village, Trienggadeng sub-district, Pidie district, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam."The hideout...

Sumatran tigers on brink of extinction

Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - The Leuser International Foundation (YLI) said, according to its data, Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris Sumatrae) still exist in the Leuser ecosystem area (KEL) but they were very endangered.Poaching and human encroachment on their habitat had...

Haze from Sumatra forest fires covers Aceh

Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - Banda Aceh Municipality and Aceh Besar District have been covered by haze from Sumatra forest fires over the past few days, however it did not affect flights at Sultan Iskandar Muda airport.The haze had covered Aceh since last week, head of the...

Unsyiah in Banda Aceh develops tsunami study center

"The Syiah Kuala University(Unsyiah) in Banda Aceh, is developing a tsunami research and disaster mitigation center in association with Kobe University, Japan, and the Aceh-Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency. "The tsunami research and disaster mitigation center is...

Dutch minister visits tsunami victims in Aceh

"ccompanied by Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia Nikolaos van Dam, Koenders engaged in a serious dialog with a number of tsunami victims in the Blang Oi area, Meuraxa sub district, Banda Aceh.In the dialog which proceeded in a friendly atmosphere, the Dutch minister asked how...

IFRC to present 19,000 shelters to tsunami survivors in Aceh

""With support from 32 red cross and red crescent societies in many countries, domestic and foreign NGOs, we will enable the tsunami survivors to own the shelters," he said. The shelters are temporary dwellings consisting of galvanized steel structures and anti-termite wooden...

Rich counries asked to fund poor countries adapting to climate change

""We see the fund to be extended by rich countries as a humiliation for developing nations," a media office of Oxfam International Yon Thayrun said on Wednesday quoting the organization`s statement. Rich countries will only extend US$67 million to the Least developed...

Thousands of tsunami survivors still live in emergency tents

Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - Thousands of families, who became victims of the 2004 tsunami, still lived in emergency tents and shelters in West Aceh District, Aceh Province, currently - almost three years after the deadly natural disaster. Data from the West Aceh District...

KPA: No flag hoisting and ceremony in GAM anniversary

""We, in KPA management, reiterate that there is no any hoisting of flag and military style ceremony to commemorate the anniversary day on December 4," a spokesman for KPA, Ibrahim Syamsuddin said here on Sunday. For GAM and KPA, December 4 was an unforgettable momentum and...