The tremors of the quake, which occurred at 1431 hours IST, were felt in Manipur and Nagaland.
Three Army personnel were killed on Thursday and four injured when suspected NSCN rebels ambushed their vehicle in Arunachal Pradesh's Tirap district bordering Nagaland.
The country should now opt for developing reusable missiles which come back after striking enemy targets, former president A P J Abdul Kalam said on Tuesday.
Yari Dulom won the Daporijo assembly seat by defeating lone Arunachal Congress rival Daklo Nidak.
On the last day of his week-long stay in Arunachal Pradesh, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama underlined the need for spiritual development for peaceful co-existence of different groups of people for establishing a developed and prosperous state.
Despite objections from China, New Delhi has cleared Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's week-long visit to Arunachal Pradesh, which will take him to the 300-year-old Tawang monastery among other places, from November 8.
From Kutch to Itanagar, Kashmir to Kanyakumari, there is only one emotion, it seems. Fear. Of coronavirus.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh, popular TV-star-turned-politician Smriti Irani, actor-turned-politician Shatrughna Sinha and senior leader Venkaiah Naidu will campaign for the party in Arunachal Pradesh, which goes to polls on October 13.While Irani has already addressed a series of election meetings in Itanagar, Sinha is scheduled to address a poll meeting at Along in Pasighat on Wednesday. Singh will hit the campaign trail on October 2.
Authorities airlifted 14 staff of the Don Bosco School in Palin in Arunachal Pradesh including four teachers and the principal on Friday, after locals attacked the institution in the wake of the death of 14 school children on Wednesday night in a fire that razed a private hostel.
Releasing the party's election manifesto at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh, senior BJP leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi asked the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre to come out with a white paper on Chinese incursions into this frontier state and have an action plan ready to tackle any eventuality along Sino-Indian border.
China claims that the Buddhist town of Tawang and some other areas of Arunachal Pradesh are part of it. But India has always rejected these claims.
Unidentified miscreants kidnapped three youths, including the youngest son of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang, when they were returning from a music school near the Public Service Commission office in Itanagar on Wednesday night. Family members of those kidnapped informed the police this morning about the kidnapping.
Congress stalwart Gegong Apang, who served as the second longest serving chief minister in the country with a record 22 years, mostly with the party, has resigned and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Many of the passengers were bound for outstation areas like Itanagar, Dimapur and Aizwal, and were left with no option but to wait endlessly at airport premises.
The thanks-giving activities will start with laying of wreaths at the police memorial in Delhi and in several other cities on Sunday morning to honour the police personnel deployed in enforcement of the nationwide lockdown, officials said. It will be followed by fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force, covering a sizeable number of cities and towns across the country between 10 am and 11 am, officials said.
With two more people succumbing to their injuries on Monday, the toll in Saturday's landslides at Itanagar and its adjoining areas has risen to 17.Massive landslides, triggered by torrential rains, left a trail of destruction in Arunachal's capital on Saturday morning, snapping water and power supply and road connectivity.National Highway 52A, the lifeline of the capital complex, was closed for traffic as the road caved in at various locations.
Tibetan spiritual guru the Dalai Lama has accepted the invitation of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu to visit the state and inaugurate a hospital In Tawang.
Former Arunachal Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Thursday filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court challenging imposition of president's rule in the state.
A transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force carrying six IAF personnel and four army men on Tuesday went missing over the mountains in Arunachal Pradesh near the border with China and is feared to have crashed. Official sources in Itanagar said the AN-32 cargo aircraft, on a routine food supply sortie, went missing after it left Mechuka, along the China border in Arunachal Pradesh's Along district, at around 2 pm. The plane went off the radar at 4:30 pm.
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Arunachal Pradesh has expressed concern over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "silence", regarding repeated intrusions by China in Arunachal territory.
Two US military officers are on a familiarisation trip to Arunachal Pradesh before a joint Indo-US search next month for wreckage of hundreds of US fighter planes missing in action during World War II in China-Burma-India theatre and their pilots' remains.
Arunachal Pradesh has sought help from the Centre for rapid modernisation of its police force in view of the threats posed by insurgents.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone for the 3,000 MW multipurpose Dibang power project, the largest in the country.
Both India and China should respect each other and resolve issues through dialogues and join hands together for peace and prosperity, Sitharaman said.
Fake currency with a total face value of Rs 4 crore has entered Arunachal Pradesh, Khandu said.
Khandu, a Monpa Buddhist of Tawang, is likely to take oath as the new chief minister later Monday evening.
"The sun kisses India first in Arunachal Pradesh. It is our land of rising sun," he said while addressing a public meeting in Itanagar on the first day of his maiden visit to this border state. China has often claimed parts of Arunachal Pradesh as its own territory. Asserting that the United Progressive Alliance government accorded the highest priority to the development of Arunachal Pradesh, Singh said the state would emerge as one of the best regions in the country.
According to a source in the Army, the top leader of the ULFA's 28th battalion, which is most dreaded and highly active in eastern Assam districts, was handed over to the police in Tinsukia district on Saturday.
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
Arunachal Pradesh is likely to ban soft drinks in school campuses following reports that they contain high levels of pesticides.
The 13 cities selected in the Fast Track Smart City Competition have proposed a total investment of Rs 30,229 crore
A Pawan Hans helicopter on Tuesday made an emergency landing on a road due to inclement weather at Gohpur Balijan in Sonitpur district near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
"India has never used me against China. I am a messenger of the ancient Indian thought and I talk about ahimsa, peace, harmony and secular ethics wherever I go," the Tibetan spiritual leader said while talking to the media.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Nabin Payeng said the debris of the chopper was sighted from a hill top at Chopo Yoha in the district by a police team at the confluence of a water fall and the Nyorch river.
The state has been in turmoil since the UDF ministry was downsized.
The Congress is seeking to form an alliance at the Centre, with Sonia Gandhi at the helm, to challenge the NDA in the next general election.
Governor V C Pande did not specify whether he would ask Congress Chief Minister Mukut Mithi to resign or prove his majority in the House.
Kapil Sibal listed out legal questions, including the governor's power to convene the assembly session without aid and advice of the government, for adjudication by a five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice J S Khehar.
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