Quoting a tweet by Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, the Prime Minister said, "Looks great! And, with the new airport and flights being added, more people will be able to visit Arunachal Pradesh with ease and experience the warm hospitality there."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the Donyi Polo Airport at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh.

Tezpur (Assam) [India], September 5 (ANI): The search operation, which was recently launched by the Indian Army to find two missing members of a mountaineering expedition of Arunachal Pradesh including a mountaineer from Arunachal Pradesh Tapi Mra, continued on Sunday.

Guwahati (Assam) [India], September 4 (ANI): The Indian army launched a search and rescue operation on Saturday to find two missing members of a mountaineering expedition of Arunachal Pradesh including Tapi Mra - the first mountaineer from Arunachal Pradesh to scale Mount Everest.

Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], August 31 (ANI): Arunachal mountaineer Tapi Mra, the first person from Arunachal to scale Mount Everest and his assistant Niku Dao went missing for the past seven days during an expedition trip to Mount Khyarisattam.

East Kameng (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], August 30 (ANI): Seppa police in a joint operation with Dimapur police arrested three people and recovered 1.2 Kg of heroin worth 2.36 crore.

Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], August 16 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh on Monday successfully launched the first flight of drone service - 'medicine from the sky' from Seppa to Chayang Tajo in East Kameng district.

New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): A recent analysis of representative survey data has found that two in five eligible children in India are missing out on preventive vitamin A supplementation designed to ward off the health problems associated with deficiency of the vitamin.

East Kameng (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], February 26 (ANI): An inter-state network of selling of stolen SUVs from Delhi to Arunachal Pradesh was busted, said East Kameng district police of the state on Saturday.

Itanagar Feb 22 PTI Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu Tuesday called upon tribal community members to preserve and practice indigenous rituals and festivals irrespective of their faith or religionAdorned in Nyishi traditional attire with matchet and headgear in place Khandu hailed the Nyishis for preserving and practicing their age-old customs and celebrating Nyokum with traditional rituals headed by local priests or NyibusKhandu was participating in the Golden Jubilee Nyokum celebrations at Seppa the headquarters of East Kameng districtFestivals like Nyokum and the rituals associated with it are the identity of the Nyishis Therefore all Nyishis including those following different religions must celebrate Nyokum and proudly preserve their identity which they are doing and my respects to them Khandu saidObserving that several persons were attending the festival in shirts and trousers Khandu appealed to them to wear their traditional attires at least during festivalsHe urged them to come dressed in traditional attires to the festival ground on February 26 the main day of the festival when Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda would be joining as chief guestThe chief minister also called upon youths studying in colleges and universities to lead from the front in preserving the indigenous culture of Arunachal PradeshThe state government he said is seriously working to promote and preserve the indigenous culture of the states 24 major tribes and more than 100 sub-tribes and cited the creation of an independent Department of Indigenous Affairs a couple of years backThis department is working in close coordination with community-based organisations civil societies and indigenous groups in making policies that would promote and preserve indigenous culture of all tribes of the state he saidReferring to his last visit to the district when he toured Chayang Tajo and Bameng constituencies travelling by road Khandu said that paper works have been completed for the reconstruction of the Seppa-Chayang Tajo and the Pakke-Bameng roadsVery soon construction works will begin My appeal to the people would be to let the executing agencies do their job unhindered Please do not raise hurdles he saidInforming that the literacy rate of the state has touched 82 per cent as per the latest reports Khandu however said the focus should be on quality education rather than on the number of literates PTI UPL MM MM