{"id":279712,"date":"2026-03-18T00:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=279712"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:44:37","slug":"stop-earth-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/stop-earth-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop earth-cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first spell of rain this year has brought tragic news as four people were killed and three others injured in a major mudslide at a construction site in Itanagar. The casualties occurred when a portion of land caved in at a retaining wall construction site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Itanagar is unable to withstand heavy rain, with haphazard construction everywhere and extensive earth-cutting carried out to make way for such development. This earth-cutting leads to landslides; each year, people lose their lives during the rains, and the entire town remains vulnerable and threatened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The administration must do more than merely issue warnings and evacuation notices. Strict action should be initiated, and earth-cutting must not be allowed, as it has been responsible for deaths and destruction. The administration&#8217;s job does not end with issuing orders; it must ensure that its own directives are implemented seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first spell of rain this year has brought tragic news as four people were killed and three others injured in a major mudslide at a construction site in Itanagar. The casualties occurred when a portion of land caved in at a retaining wall construction site. Itanagar is unable to withstand heavy rain, with haphazard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279724,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279712\/revisions\/279724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}