Boulders Don’t Wait — An Assam Worker Lost His Life at Arunachal’s Parsi Parlo Hydropower Site

A man left home for work. He never came back. That is the devastating reality facing the family of Nobin Doley, a labourer from Dhemaji district in Assam, who was killed Tuesday afternoon when a sudden landslide tore through a hydroelectric project site deep inside Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kumey district. A Routine Afternoon Turned Fatal … Read more

Trapped in a River With No Warning: J&K Worker Rescued After Cloudburst Sends Arunachal’s Kush River Into a Sudden Rage

Trapped in a River With No Warning: J&K Worker Rescued After Cloudburst Sends Arunachal's Kush River Into a Sudden Rage

The sky was clear. No rain, no thunder — and yet within minutes, the river turned deadly. On July 28, a worker from Jammu & Kashmir narrowly escaped death in Arunachal Pradesh’s remote Kurung Kumey district, after a sudden flash surge on the Kush River left him stranded mid-stream with no way out. The clock … Read more

“Think Twice Before You Drown Our Land” — Rights Body Stands With Adi Community Against Siang Mega Dams

"Think Twice Before You Drown Our Land" — Rights Body Stands With Adi Community Against Siang Mega Dams

When a human rights organisation tells a state government to pause and reconsider, it’s time to pay attention. The Human Rights of Arunachal, better known as HRA, has thrown its weight behind the Adi community’s growing resistance to the proposed mega hydropower projects along the Siang river belt. In a formal statement issued on Sunday, … Read more