Race Against Rain: Arunachal Rushes to Fix NH-415 Before VP’s Visit to Itanagar

With the Vice President of India just days away from setting foot in Itanagar, the Arunachal Pradesh government is in a quiet but urgent scramble — fixing a battered highway that has seen better days. The Arunachal Pradesh Public Works Department (PWD) Highway Zone has intensified road repair and restoration work along the Hollongi-Itanagar stretch … Read more

Students Hit the Street Over a Road That Shouldn’t Even Be News — And They Won

Students Hit the Street Over a Road That Shouldn't Even Be News — And They Won

It takes a lot for students to walk out of university gates and sit on a broken road in protest. But that’s exactly what happened at Assam University on Wednesday — and by afternoon, they had a written promise in their hands. Fed Up and Done Waiting Students of Assam University staged a sit-in protest … Read more

A Road to Nowhere: Arunachal Students Give Government 15 Days to Fix Strategic Border Highway or Face Protests

A Road to Nowhere: Arunachal Students Give Government 15 Days to Fix Strategic Border Highway or Face Protests

The potholes are getting deeper, the patience is running out — and now, student bodies in Arunachal Pradesh have had enough. “Not a Single Promise Kept Since Independence” Two prominent student organisations — the Basar Area Students Union (BASU) and Jigo Yegi Student Union — came together under a Joint Action Committee (JAC) on August … 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