Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's family - his four wives and five children - are passing through agonizing moments and praying for his safe return as rescue teams search the mountains for his missing chopper. While one of his wives is in New Delhi, two are in Arunachal Pradesh, and one waiting at the Guwahati airport in Assam along with two children. "We can understand the state of...
12:37 PM, May 01, 2011
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Sunday spoke to Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigme Thinley seeking assistance in search operations to trace the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorje Khandu and four others. Krishna spoke to Thinley and sought Bhutanese assistance in the search operations along the Indo-Bhutan border, sources said. The two also discussed the issue of logistical support to people involved in the search operations,...
12:08 PM, May 01, 2011
New Delhi: Massive search operations to find missing Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu began at 5:30 am on Sunday with the SSB and ITBP personnel joining the Army in the massive search operation. However, bad weather hampered the search operation as helicopters could not take off for the search operation. Six helicopters were stranded, four of which were in Tejpur. Pawan Hans suspended commercial operations in North East on...
07:56 AM, May 01, 2011
New Delhi: Government on Saturday night alerted the Department of Space and ISRO for help in locating the whereabouts of the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others. Union Home Secretary GK Pillai said that Indian satellites have made two passes over the probable area from where the Pawan Hans helicopter went missing 20 minutes after takeoff from Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh but has not...
07:25 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Shillong: The Meghalaya government on Saturday suspended the Pawan Hans helicopter services operating in the state with immediate effect, hours after Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's helicopter went missing and was found later in Bhutan. Transport Minister AT Mondal told PTI that he instructed his office to close down the company's office in Guwahati and not issue any more tickets. Mondal said the license of Pawan Hans to operate...
04:06 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Pawan Hans helicopter crashed in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang on Tuesday with 23 people on board. ...
09:33 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Tawang: At least 17 people were killed when a Pawan Hans helicopter crashed in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang at 2 PM on Tuesday. There were 23 people on board the helicopter including five crew members and two children. Four people have been injured with two reported to be in a critical condition. One person is untraceable and the other one is safe. The helicopter caught fire and crashed into a gorge...
03:50 PM, Apr 19, 2011
New Delhi: A Congress MP in Arunachal Pradesh engaged in a war of words with yoga guru Baba Ramdev. MP Ninong Ering allegedly threatened Baba Ramdev with dire consequences if the yoga guru continued with his tirade against corruption in the state. Ramdev said that he was called a 'bloody Indian' in his own country. According to a Ramdev aide, the MP stormed into the Pasighat Yoga camp of Baba...
03:14 PM, Feb 19, 2011
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Thursday acknowledged that separatists in North-East and Jammu and Kashmir are "misusing" social networking sites and said "proper corrective action" will be taken. Responding to queries of media persons on "misuse" of social networking sites like Facebook by the separatists, the Minister said, "We know people are misusing these but at the same time we are not going to take any hasty decision."...
11:07 PM, Feb 17, 2011
New Delhi: China on Thursday made it clear that it will not issue visas to any official from Arunachal Pradesh, over which it lays claims, and will continue to issue stapled visas to non-officials from that state. Speaking against the backdrop of reports that two Arunachal men have got stapled visas which was departure from past practice, an official in Chinese embassy, on the condition of anonymity, said there was...
06:22 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Itanagar: China has begun a practice of issuing stapled visas to residents of Arunachal Pradesh, which it considers it as disputed, extending its controversial 'paper visa' regime from Jammu and Kashmir to the country's remote north-eastern state. The practice came to light when two sportsmen from Arunachal Pradesh were prevented by immigration officials from boarding a flight on Wednesday from New Delhi to Beijing since they had stapled visas issued...
07:17 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Itanagar: Food crisis looms large in the remote Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh following non-availability of essential commodities under the public distribution system (PDS) since the last couple of months. Most parts of the district, including Damin, Sarli and Parsi-Parlo circles, had witnessed rat menace during the early part of 2010, affecting the stock of food grains in the Food Corporation of India's (FCI) base depots in the state....
11:45 AM, Jan 07, 2011
Guwahati: In a forgotten corner of Assam, RTI activist Akhil Gogoi begins his days work, meeting people and talking to them. Akhil and his Krishak Mukhti Sangram Samiti are the only way to fight for their rights and make the administration deliver. At his office the heap of files are the more than 1000 RTI applications he filed over the last five years. He had single handedly brought focus on...
09:05 AM, Oct 27, 2010
Washington: A "hidden" language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka culture, a tribal community in the foothills of the Himalayas. They found an entirely different vocabulary and linguistic structure. Even the speakers of the tongue, called Koro, did not realise they had a distinct language, linguist...
10:50 PM, Oct 06, 2010
P Chidambaram also said India must find a unique solution for Kashmir. ...
09:34 AM, Sep 10, 2010
Itanagar: Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang was on Tuesday arrested by the Special Investigation Cell for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore public distribution system scam. "Apang was arrested based on material evidence and statement given by the other accused," the cell's investigating officer MS Chauhan said. Apang, who was summoned to the cell on Tuesday morning, was arrested under non-bailable sections. He was booked under section 120b...
01:39 PM, Aug 24, 2010
Indian ace shooter Pemba Tamang, heading for Beijing for the Shooting World Cup, was stopped at the Mumbai airport. ...
10:59 AM, Apr 16, 2010
India's largest hydro power project has been caught in the middle of a big controversy. ...
10:09 AM, Apr 12, 2010
There were 62 students of a local branch of the Don Bosco chain of schools. ...
02:30 PM, Feb 11, 2010
Doorjee Khandu says he isn't bothered by Beijing's claim on state. ...
12:38 PM, Dec 02, 2009
