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Indian Railways (IR) plans to start construction next year on a 57km broad-gauge line connecting Kokrajhar in India to Gelephu in Bhutan costing $US 129.9m.

Central government has announced new sanctioned projects costing Rs 1.6 lakh crore to improve the northeast's infrastructure and security.

Indias Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday stated that Government-accelerated development initiatives in North East had transformed the Look East policy into the Act East Policy, leading to all-round development in the northeast region, enabling all the states to improve trade with South East Asian Nations.

The 2,000km long route will be crucial for military strategy. According to authorities, the same machinery is dispatched to work on difficult terrain on the opposite side of the LAC.

Two youths who went missing on August 24 along the Indo-China border in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh are yet to be traced.

A local tribal organisation -- Adi Bane Kebang (ABK) - on Thursday strongly denied the media reports, that earlier claimed that the militants belonging to Manipur-based groups, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Manipur Naga ...

The recent crash of the indigenously developed Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter variant in Arunachal Pradesh is only the latest in as many as 22 such crashes and multiple emergency landings of ALHs in the last two decades.

Army’s advanced light helicopter crashed during a routine sortie near Migging

Arunachal helicopter crash: The advanced light helicopter (ALH), carrying five Army personnel including two pilots, was on regular sorties when it crashed at 10.43 am on Friday near Migging, around 25 km south of Tuting.

Four Army personnel, including two pilots, were killed in a helicopter crash in Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday morning, a defence official said.