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For anyone who has ever visited a remote health centre in Arunachal Pradesh and found it plunged in darkness — a broken generator, no grid connection, medicines sitting unrefrigerated — this news will feel long overdue. On Wednesday, September 23, Health and Family Welfare Minister Biyuram Wahge officially launched the state-level rollout of the Energy … Read more
The BJP in Arunachal Pradesh didn’t just hold a meeting on Tuesday — it held a mirror up to itself. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Arunachal Pradesh unit convened an extended State Executive Meeting at the D.K. Convention Hall in Itanagar on September 22, pulling together a who’s who of state politics under one roof. Chief … Read more
Anini has long been one of the most isolated district headquarters in the entire country. Getting there means hours of bumpy, nerve-wracking drives through terrain that seems to resist every effort humans make to tame it. That may finally be about to change. Senior officials from the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) … Read more
They’ve had enough. The Adi Bane Kebang-United (ABK-U), the apex body of the Adi community in Arunachal Pradesh, has made its position crystal clear — the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) must go. Not be reviewed. Not be paused. Gone. At a press conference held at the Arunachal Press Club in Itanagar on Tuesday, … Read more
He had just finished performing. That should have been the end of it — music, a crowd, a good night, a drive home. Instead, Sikkim-based rapper Ugen Namgyal Bhutia, known widely as UNB, was allegedly hunted down on an empty stretch of road in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Dibang Valley district on Monday evening, beaten with … Read more
A shuttered classroom is never a victory — and that seems to be exactly the message Arunachal Pradesh’s Education Minister wanted to drive home before September 24 arrives. Education Minister Pasang Dorjee Sona on Monday sat down with representatives of the All Nyishi Students’ Union (ANSU) in a bid to defuse the tension ahead of … Read more
House-hunting in Itanagar just got a whole lot riskier — and the police want you to know before it’s too late. Itanagar Police have issued a sharp public alert warning residents about a troubling surge in rental house and paying guest (PG) scams. The fraudsters are not operating from dark back alleys. They are right … Read more
When a party calls an extended state executive meeting — not just the usual one — you know something serious is on the table. The BJP’s Arunachal Pradesh unit did exactly that on September 22, packing the D.K. Convention Hall in Itanagar with a who’s who of state politics. Chief Minister Pema Khandu was there. … Read more
The mountains around Tawang have always looked beautiful from a distance. But hidden within those high-altitude ridges above the Mago area, seven glacial lakes sit quietly — and authorities say each one is a potential catastrophe waiting to happen. Seven glacial lakes in the Mago area of Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, have been officially classified … Read more
The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project has long been a powder keg in Arunachal Pradesh. On Monday, Chief Minister Pema Khandu lit a match. Amid mounting resistance from indigenous communities against pre-feasibility report (PFR) activities for the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), Khandu convened a high-stakes consultative meeting in Itanagar — pulling in hundreds of … Read more
