19 Children Freed, Three Arrested as Police Bust Child Trafficking Ring Across Arunachal Pradesh

Nineteen children — some as young as three years old — have been rescued from across Arunachal Pradesh in what police are calling a major crackdown on an organized child trafficking network. The Operation That Shook Multiple Districts It started with a complaint. On August 17, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Namsai district walked … Read more

Four Days and Still No Sign: The Desperate Hunt for Three Missing After Vehicle Plunges into Lohit River

Four days. Thousands of meters of riverbank combed. And still no trace of three people who vanished into the cold, unforgiving waters of the Lohit River deep in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh. A Terrifying Dawn on NH-113 It was barely 6 in the morning on August 13 when tragedy struck along NH-113 on the … Read more

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

300 Feet Into the Lohit: A Vehicle, 10 Lives, and a Search That’s Still Not Over

One woman is dead. Three people are missing. And somewhere beneath the churning waters of the Lohit River, a vehicle sits submerged — a grim reminder of just how unforgiving these mountain roads can be. When the Road Ran Out It was barely dawn on August 13 when a Delhi-registered DI vehicle carrying 10 people … Read more

One Dead, Six Fighting for Life After Vehicle Crashes Into Lohit River in Arunachal’s Anjaw

A morning that started like any other in the remote hills of Anjaw turned into a scene of chaos and grief — a vehicle carrying multiple passengers plunged into the swirling Lohit River, and the driver who caused it simply ran away. When Everything Went Wrong at Sarti It was barely 9:30 in the morning … 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

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

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

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