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Clear filtersThe Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) has been extended for six more months from 1 October 2026 in specified areas of Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. In Manipur it covers the whole State except 13...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off the First Ascent Mountaineering Expedition in New Delhi on 25 September 2026. The team had climbed 20 previously unclimbed peaks above 6,000 metres in Ladakh within 23 days. The...
A new species of flowering plant, Begonia neelamorum, has been found in Keyi Panyor district of Arunachal Pradesh. The species is named after the Neelam clan of the Nyishi community. Locally, the plant is known as "kobii...
The rare ghost flower orchid Gastrodia keyiensis, known locally as “Oram Opuh” in the Nyishi dialect, has been recorded in Keyi Panyor district of Arunachal Pradesh. The species is classified as Data Deficient.
Schizopygopsis waddellii has been recorded in India for the first time from Pangkang Teng Tso Lake in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. It is a cold-adapted freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family and belongs to the snowtrout...
Ophiopogon japonicus, an evergreen perennial commonly called dwarf lilyturf or mondo grass, has been recorded in India for the first time from West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. Its tuberous roots, known as Ophio...
Majuli in Assam and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh have built community-driven systems for rural waste management. In Majuli, waste is collected in 19 of 20 panchayats, sorted at Central Material Collection Facilities and s...
Arunachal Pradesh has recorded the first verifiable photographic evidence of the spoon-tailed duskhawker (Gynacantha basiguttata) in Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve. With this record, the species has been added...
IntroductionFirmly countering repeated, unilateral attempts by China to rename geographic locations in India's northeastern frontier, the Survey of India officially updated its national cartographic maps on 16 August 202...
IntroductionIn an exciting entomological breakthrough for Indian biodiversity, entomologists documented the presence of the extremely rare solitary plasterer bee species, Colletes bhutanicus, in India for the very first...
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma launched Mission Clouded Leopard to safeguard the State animal, the mainland clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa). It differs from the Sunda clouded leopard of Borneo and Sumatra....
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive ecological milestone, Glaw Lake, located in Arunachal Pradesh, was strictly and officially designated as India's 101st Ramsar Site, forcefully marking the absolute ma...
