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Envoy's visit to Tawang highlights support for Indian sovereignty: US

US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster on Monday visited the border town of Tawang in the state to participate in the Tawang Festival

How a tribe in Arunachal is using festivities to preserve its language

A small tribe in Arunachal Pradesh thoroughly enjoys its annual Kro-Cheykor festival. It's a time for praying, eating, drinking, dancing

Strengthening law & order state govt's top priority: Khandu

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu Monday said his government's top priority is to strengthen the law and order apparatus in the state. The state government last year had allocated adequate funds to the police department for procurement of arms and other equipments, he said. "To strengthen the police forces in the state, the cabinet has sanctioned immediate creation of 1,000 posts of civil police in different levels which will go a long way in effective maintenance of law and order," Khandu told reporters at the Assembly premise here. The chief minister said that the DGP on Sunday informed that the procurement process has been completed and hopefully all the equipment will be made available by the end of this month. In the education sector, another priority area of the new government, Khandu informed that the state cabinet has approved creation of only one director for School Education by merging the posts of directors of Elementary Education and Secondary

PRC row: Arunachal govt relents amid violence, says won't raise issue again

The agitators had been demanding permanent resolution to the PRC issue

Protesters set ablaze Deputy CM's private residence in Arunachal Pradesh

The protesters also attacked the Itanagar Police station and several public properties in the state capital, police said.

Only the BJP needs convincing that Arunachal is indeed a part of India

From naming the state to deifying sites like Parshuram Kund and Malinithan among others, there have been sustained efforts to make Arunachal look like a part of the larger glorified Hindu India

Two NSCN(R) ultras arrested in Arunachal Pradesh

AK-47 rifle, ammunition, contraband, multiple sim cards and important documents were seized

After Arunachal, China justifies tweaking Taiwan's name

Taiwan calls itself Zhonghua Taipei suggesting that it is not the part of mainland China

China won't make concessions to India in border dispute: Chinese expert

Some radical Indians were naive in thinking that India could out-do China in armed clashes: Expert

Arunachal Pradesh has never been a part of China, say students

Students protest against China in Arunachal Pradesh

Incessant Pre-monsoon showers trigger landslides in Arunachal Pradesh

Heaps of debris carried by rainwater has blocked several stretches of the NH-415

Most places renamed by China have Dalai Lama, Tibet links: Experts

According to Kondapalli, renamed areas have huge potential for agriculture and fisheries

Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union flays China's move of renaming cities

China had strongly protested the visit of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama

India raps China for renaming towns in Arunachal 'illegally'

When you rename towns of neighbour, it doesn't make illegally held territory legal: Bagalay

Chinese media warns India 'not to play dirty' over Arunachal Pradesh

Indian occupation of the area is legally untenable, says Chinese media

Arunachal BJP trashes report of replacing Khandu as CM

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju's name is doing the rounds as the next possible CM of the state

Arunachal CM Prema Khandu suspended from PPA, joins BJP

With this BJP is now in power in Arunachal with more than three-fourth majority

Arunachal CM Pema Khandu, Deputy CM Mein, 5 other MLAs suspended from PPA

5 other MLAs are Jambey Tashi, Passang Dorjee Sona, Chow Tewa Mein, Zingnu Namchom, Kamlung Mossang

BJP becomes part of coalition PPA govt in Arunachal Pradesh

In a House of 60 members, now PPA has 44 MLAs, BJP has 11, Congress 3 and 2 independents

Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu appoints 26 MLAs as parliamentary secretary

This is the first time that a large number of MLAs were appointed as parliamentary secretaries in the state