MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XII, No. 067
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India’s Festival of Lights
Indian Business Forum to Celebrate Diwali at Mindanao Food Congress By MIKE BAÑOS Editor at large
7 Caraga youth farmers vie for nat’l agri tilt top honors By ALEXANDER LOPEZ
BUTUAN CITY – Seven youth farmers and groups in the Caraga Region will vie for the Young Farmers Challenge at the national level, the regional office of the Department of Agriculture (DA-13) here said Friday. In a statement, the DA-13 said the winning individuals and groups topped the competition at the regional level held Thursday. Each of the winner received a PHP150,000 prize for their Business Model Canvass featuring their respective agricultural ventures and farm products. “The PHP150,000 prize for each of the regional
WITH ‘India’ as a Partner Country for the Mindanao Food Congress, the India Business Forum (IBF) is pleased to organize Indian Cultural and Food Night for Guests and Participants on the first day of the event on Wednesday, 26 October 2022 to mark the celebration of Diwali, the Festival of Lights. The event will start at 6:00PM at the Limketkai Center Atrium. Diwali, India’s biggest and most important holiday of the year, is a Festival of Lights that celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil and the human ability to overcome. Diwali is a post-harvest festival celebrating the bounty following the arrival of the monsoon in the subcontinent. It has become a national Indian festival. The height of the fiveONCE again, Cagayan de frastructure, Resiliency, and day festival is celebrated Oro has made it as one of the Innovation. This year, LGU‘Top 10 Most Competitive See COMPETITIVE, page 11 See CELEBRATE, page 11 Highly Urbanized Cities’ in the country this year. This after Cagayan de Oro ranked as the ‘8th Most Competitive Highly Urbanized City’ based on the results of the 10th Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) Summit held October 20, 2022 at the Philippine International Convention Center. Aside from landing in the 8th spot, Cagayan de Oro City grabbed special awards in four (4) out of five (5) CMCI pillars, namely: Government Efficiency, Economic Dynamism, In-
Oro is PHs 8th Most Competitive City in 2022
See VIE, page 11
MisOr armed encounter, 1 killed, firearms seized By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CLAVERIA, Misamis Oriental: A combatant of the outlawed New People’s Army (NPA) was killed in a firefight with state forces in
the hinterlands of Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental on Thursday, October 20, 2022. A military report reaching here Friday, said that elements of the army’s 58IB were conducting patrol in
Alagatan, a hinterland village of Gingoog, when they encountered an undetermined number of armed group, which resulted to a 20-minute firefight. Lt. Col. Christian Uy,
the 58IB commander, said that the military also captured one M16 rifles and two backpacks on the site of the encounter as state forces waged hot pursuit See ENCOUNTER, page 11