Five Days of Rain Are Coming — Arunachal, Are You Ready?

If you had plans to travel across the hills this week, you might want to hold that thought. The India Meteorological Department has put out a five-day weather forecast for Arunachal Pradesh, and it is not painting a pretty picture — rain, thunderstorms, and more rain are on the way starting September 15. The IMD’s … Read more

☁️ Skies Are Turning Dark Over Arunachal — IMD Issues 4-Day Storm Warning Across the State

The clouds rolling in over Arunachal Pradesh this weekend are not ordinary monsoon drizzle. The India Meteorological Department has sounded a formal alert — rain, thunderstorms, and lightning are on their way, and they are not coming alone. Starting Sunday, September 6, IMD has forecast rain and thunderstorms at several places across Arunachal Pradesh, with … Read more

East Siang Tear Upper Siang Apart 6-0 as Tadar Tang Football Heats Up

Football fever is very much alive in Arunachal Pradesh right now — and the 21st Tadar Tang State-Level Football Championship is proving to be exactly the kind of tournament that reminds you why the beautiful game matters so much in the hills. On Tuesday, September 1, the most dominant result of the day came from … Read more

She Walked Into an Empty School with No Colleagues — Now India Is Honouring Her

Forty years is a long time to pour your soul into something. But for Tame Yaku, it wasn’t long enough to be noticed — until now. The headmistress of Government Secondary School, G-Sector, Naharlagun, has been selected as Arunachal Pradesh’s lone recipient of this year’s National Teachers’ Award — one of the most prestigious recognitions … Read more

23 Proud Names, One Big Day: Arunachal Honours Its Best on the 80th Independence Day

Independence Day is always about flags and speeches. But this year in Arunachal Pradesh, it was also about names — 23 of them — that the state decided the world should know. Gold for the Ones Who Truly Earned It On August 15, as the rest of the country marked India’s 80th Independence Day, Arunachal … Read more

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

When the River Took the Bridge Away, BRO Brought It Back — 200 Feet of Steel Over Raging Waters in Kurung Kumey

For weeks, Huri was just… cut off. No road in, no road out. Then the BRO showed up. It started on the night of July 11 — flash floods tore through Kurung Kumey district in Arunachal Pradesh and took the bridge with them. Just like that, the remote settlement of Huri went dark, completely disconnected … Read more

Steel Lifeline Returns: BRTF Launches New Bridge Over Kumey River, Huri Village to Be Connected Again

Steel Lifeline Returns: BRTF Launches New Bridge Over Kumey River, Huri Village to Be Connected Again

It took a flash flood just hours to erase what took years to build — but it took the Border Roads Task Force only weeks to fight back. The BRTF has successfully launched a steel bridge over the Kumey River at Huri in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kurung Kumey district, breathing life back into a remote border … 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

When the Roads Wash Away, MLA Pani Taram Flies In to See the Damage Himself

When the Roads Wash Away, MLA Pani Taram Flies In to See the Damage Himself

The floodwaters didn’t spare a single road. They didn’t spare the bridges either. And when the rains finally eased enough for anyone to move, Koloriang MLA Pani Taram didn’t wait for a report on his desk — he went up in a helicopter and then came right back down to the ground. A Disaster Hidden … Read more