She Left the Marriage. He Took Her Life Anyway. Now Arunachal’s Women Are Demanding Justice.

She Left the Marriage. He Took Her Life Anyway. Now Arunachal's Women Are Demanding Justice.

A 25-year-old woman in Aalo had done everything right. She walked out of what was reportedly an abusive relationship. She separated from her husband. She tried to start over. And she still didn’t make it out alive. A Killing That Has Shaken West Siang According to police, the accused — 45-year-old Todak Ngomdir — allegedly … Read more

Arunachal Professor Wins Prestigious SAARC Grant to Decolonise How Museums Tell Tribal Stories

Arunachal Professor Wins Prestigious SAARC Grant to Decolonise How Museums Tell Tribal Stories

An Arunachal Pradesh academic has just put the state on the South Asian research map — and the recognition couldn’t be more timely. A Win That Means More Than Money Assistant Professor Prem Taba of the Mass Communication Department at Arunachal Pradesh University has been awarded the SAARC Research Grant 2026–27 by the SAARC Cultural … Read more

Centre Sends Team to Flood-Battered Keyi Panyor — And What They Saw Was Grim

Centre Sends Team to Flood-Battered Keyi Panyor — And What They Saw Was Grim

Two weeks after a cloudburst tore through Keyi Panyor district, the Centre finally came to see the damage for itself — and the ground reality left little room for optimism. Delhi Takes Note of the Destruction An Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT), led by Ministry of Home Affairs Joint Secretary Nishtha Tiwari, arrived in Keyi Panyor … Read more

Big Administrative Shake-Up: Arunachal Gets New IAS Officer as Centre Transfers 21 IAS, 40 IPS Officials

Big Administrative Shake-Up: Arunachal Gets New IAS Officer as Centre Transfers 21 IAS, 40 IPS Officials

The Ministry of Home Affairs didn’t waste any time. On July 9, the Centre signed off on a sweeping reshuffle of AGMUT cadre officers — and Arunachal Pradesh is right at the centre of it all. A Reshuffle That Means Business The MHA issued transfer orders with immediate effect after competent authority approval, moving 21 … Read more

Where Soldiers Meet Villagers: Army’s Bond With Arunachal’s Border Communities Gets CM’s Praise

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There are borders drawn on maps, and then there are borders held together by people. In Arunachal Pradesh, it’s increasingly looking like the Indian Army understands the difference. Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday took to X to spotlight something that often goes unnoticed in the noise of national security debates — the quiet, ground-level … Read more

Arunachal Women’s Body Tells Government: Fix the System or Keep Failing the People

Arunachal Women's Body Tells Government: Fix the System or Keep Failing the People

A women’s organisation in Arunachal Pradesh has had enough of waiting — and they’ve put it in writing. The Arunachal Pradesh Women Welfare Society (APWWS) has submitted a sweeping set of reform recommendations to the Arunachal Pradesh Administrative Reforms Commission (APARC), pushing for a ground-up rethink of how the state government recruits, deploys, and holds … Read more

Mud, Rain, and Tragedy: Two Bihar Workers Buried Alive in Arunachal Landslide

Mud, Rain, and Tragedy: Two Bihar Workers Buried Alive in Arunachal Landslide

They came from Bihar looking for work. They never made it back home. Two migrant labourers — Bipin Kumar, 33, and Rahul Kumar, 26 — were killed on Tuesday afternoon when a massive landslide crashed into a construction site in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lohit district. Four of their colleagues were buried under the debris and had … Read more

A Flower That Vanished for 158 Years Just Bloomed Back Into Existence in Arunachal

A Flower That Vanished for 158 Years Just Bloomed Back Into Existence in Arunachal

A tiny purple-blue flower hiding at 3,600 metres in the mountains of Tawang just rewrote a chapter of India’s botanical history — and it had been missing for 158 years. Lost Since 1867, Found in Tawang Cyananthus hookeri, a rare Himalayan flowering plant, has been rediscovered in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district — marking its first … Read more

From a Village Elder’s Voice to an Animated Screen — Wancho Folktale Makes History

From a Village Elder's Voice to an Animated Screen — Wancho Folktale Makes History

Deep in the Patkai Hills of Arunachal Pradesh, where the mountains brush the India-Myanmar border and ancient stories still travel by word of mouth, something quietly extraordinary is happening. A traditional folktale of the Wancho community from Longding district is being brought to life as an animated short film — and it will be the … Read more

No More Delays: Arunachal Minister Tells Officials to Get Rural Roads Done — Now

No More Delays: Arunachal Minister Tells Officials to Get Rural Roads Done — Now

Roads that don’t exist on the ground can’t exist only on paper. That seems to be the clear message Arunachal Pradesh Rural Works Minister Passang Dorjee Sona sent out on July 8, when he sat down with officials and made one thing absolutely clear — the waiting is over. A Review That Meant Business Minister … Read more