When a mountainside gave way before dawn on 24 June, engulfing the NEEPCO residential colony at Poosa village in Arunachal Pradesh's Keyi Panyor district, the immediate explanation was simple: an extreme monsoon cloudburst had triggered a devastating flash flood.
Bridges collapsed, farmlands vanished under water, and nearly a thousand cattle and goats were swept away in a single village alone. Entire communities are now waiting, isolated, for help to reach them.
The Nah Welfare Society, representing indigenous communities in Upper Subansiri district, has accused the People’s Liberation Army of gradually occupying traditional grazing lands and hunting grounds near Taksing, north of the Subansiri River.
NDRF said rescue efforts have been affected by difficult conditions at the site, including the mountainous landscape and changing weather.
"The true measure of leadership lies in the trust it earns and the service it renders," Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan said while speaking at a book release event here on Wednesday.
Union Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju on Thursday accused the Congress Party of exploiting a Christian Forum in Arunachal…
The latest chapter in this saga unfolds in the remote reaches of the Himalayas, where India and China once again find themselves at odds over the renaming of places in Arunachal Pradesh.
The Kerala police have dispatched a team to Arunachal Pradesh to investigate the matter leading to the death of three persons from the state.
This came a day after China released a fourth list of 30 new names for various places in Arunachal Pradesh.
The EAM, who is in Singapore as part of his three-nation visit, was speaking at the Institute of South Asian Studies of National University of Singapore on his book 'Why Bharat Matters'.
