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Prafulla Kaman

RUKSIN, Sept 27: The people of Ruskin Sub-division in East Siang district have opposed the recent road survey alignment for extension of Broad Gauge (BG) railway line from Murkongselek (Assam) to Pasighat town of Arunachal Pradesh.

The people including the PR leaders of the area, in a written statement, stated that the proposed BG railway line would severely affect the poor farmer...
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The current geopolitics of Asia mainly revolve round on India-China relationship for most global observers.In most diplomatic row between these two Asian giants,Arunachal constantly feature in the fore.And most recently,China has earmarked a claim line one step further by including parts of Assam along the borders of what the so-called South Tibet.The development of infrastructure on the Chinese s...
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National highway 52 along which surface communication gets disrupted in Dhemaji district every year during the monsoons, has become a bane for the people of the district and a large part of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.

This year too disruption of surface communication on the highway due to breach at the Gainadi portion near Silapathar is causing shortage of petroleum products and other essenti...
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If the general manager (construction) of Northeast Frontier Railway, Ms Vijaya Kanth is to be believed, the Bogibeel rail-cum-road bridge should be ready by 2015, if the current pace of construction work continues. She clarified this in an informal chat with this newspaper today at the Bogibeel Project Officers’ Guest House here, and denied that the bridge superstructure is in for a re-tender. She...
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The Poba reserved forest is a significant rain forest located in outer Jonai in the adjoining East Siang district of Arunachal and Dhemaji district of Assam having various floras and faunas like wild buffaloes,forest pigs,pythons,deer, etc as well as forest resource.The total land area of the reserved forest is about 10,000 hectares which is also connects through waterways to India's one the most ...