Arunachal Double Tragedy: Four Dead at Road Site, Five Soldiers Still Missing as Monsoon Tears Through the State

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The rains did not care that it was Independence Day eve. On Friday evening, as the rest of India prepared for flag-hoisting ceremonies, Arunachal Pradesh was being swallowed — roads buried, shelters washed away, men gone. In two separate incidents triggered by heavy monsoon downpours, four people lost their lives in a landslide and five … Read more

Earth Gave Way — A Vehicle Swallowed, A Road Gone, And Arunachal Once Again On Edge

A hillside didn’t just collapse on Tuesday morning — it swallowed a vehicle whole and cut off an entire stretch of one of Arunachal Pradesh’s most critical road links. A massive landslide struck the Seppa–Itanagar highway on August 4, burying a vehicle under a thick cascade of mud, rocks, and debris at Zero Block Point, … Read more

Mud, Fear and No Warning Signs: NH-13 to Indo-China Border Is Falling Apart This Monsoon

Mud, Fear and No Warning Signs: NH-13 to Indo-China Border Is Falling Apart This Monsoon

Every year the rains come. And every year, Arunachal’s NH-13 pays the price. The Pasighat–Pangin stretch of National Highway-13 in Arunachal Pradesh’s Siang district has been reduced to a battered dirt scar this monsoon season, with back-to-back landslides swallowing chunks of the road and leaving thousands of residents stranded, anxious, and angry. This isn’t a … Read more

Parsi Parlo Goes Under: Kumey River Swallows Arunachal’s China-Border Town, Only Road to District HQ Snapped

Parsi Parlo Goes Under: Kumey River Swallows Arunachal's China-Border Town, Only Road to District HQ Snapped

The Kumey River doesn’t ask for permission. It just rises — and right now, it has swallowed an entire border town whole. A Town Sinking Fast Parsi Parlo, a remote border town in Kurung Kumey district sitting right along the Indo-China boundary, is currently submerged. Days of relentless monsoon downpours have pushed the Kumey River … Read more