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 Papua New Guinea PRIME Minister James Marape has announced that his government will address inflation in the Supplementary budget and implement the K610 million assistance they put out before going into election. Prime Minister Marape said the government had responded to the high inflation rate by increasing the basic salary range from K12,000 to K17,500 including a K200 project fee to schools nationwide. “We also removed 10 per cent of the fuel voucher and if it is not enough it will not stop the imported inflation that we are experiencing today but at least our government did make the first step today,” PM Marape said. “Before we went out into elections, we put out K610 million worth of assistance, including those who earn salary under K17,000 – the threshold before was I think K12,000 if I am not wrong and that is an increase. That’s low salary for shop assistance, security guards, the casuals, those who are at the lower end of the salary structure,” PM Marape said. “The tax holida...

It is one of India’s best birding hotspots. It is an integral part of the elephant corridor in the Eastern Himalayas. One can see the most surreal sunrises of the Eastern Himalayas here. I am talking about the extremely off-beat and hidden Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary that is located in the Himalayan foothills of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. Made up of sub-tropical forests, evergreen forests and bamboo forests, shrubs and thickets, the beauty of Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary lies in its wide altitude range (500 m to 3,250 metres). This diversity in altitude range gives birth to a wide variety of flora and which in turn attracts many birds, herpetofauna, mammals and butterflies. A part of the Kameng Elephant reserve, it conjoins Sessa Orchid sanctuary to the north-east and Pakhui Tiger Reserve across the Kameng river to the east. It’s call to fame was a new bird species that was discovered here in 2006 by amateur birder and astrophysicist Ramana Athreya. This bird was named B...