Prabin Kalita

Special Correspondent, TOI

Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journal ...

Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.

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Stories by the author

• Hit hard by defections, Congress suffers its worst defeat in Manipur

  
  11 Mar 2022 10:11 AM IST
• Pentagon-cited China village a PLA camp: Arunachal official

  
  07 Nov 2021 11:07 AM IST
• First time since 1996, Ulfa-I does not call bandh on I-day

  
  12 Aug 2021 10:22 AM IST
• On Assam-Mizoram border, two women officers fight the good fight

  
  03 Aug 2021 10:26 AM IST
• Sonowal’s image, Sarma’s astuteness leave BJP with tough choice on CM in Assam

  
  04 May 2021 10:27 AM IST
• Fear of ‘D voter’ tag drives Assam Muslims to poll booths in droves

  
  08 Apr 2021 10:30 AM IST
• Rahul Gandhi's poll promise rekindles fears of Assam's fragmentation

  
  31 Mar 2021 11:20 AM IST
• In Assam, BJP can provide dignity of life and protection of culture and identity: Sarbananda Sonowal

  
  15 Mar 2021 10:43 AM IST
• PM Narendra Modi hints at election dates for four states by March 7

  
  23 Feb 2021 11:10 AM IST
• ‘Already seeing massive infrastructure development in Tibet opposite the eastern sector’

  
  17 Feb 2021 02:45 PM IST
• Assam seizes locomotive for ‘murdering’ elephants

  
  21 Oct 2020 12:45 PM IST
• Assam government declares war on ‘marriages by deception’

  
  15 Oct 2020 11:52 AM IST
• Ulfa (I) operating from base in China: Centre tells Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal

  
  04 Oct 2020 02:02 PM IST
• Defence forces on toes in six ‘disputed’ areas along LAC in Arunachal Pradesh

  
  19 Sep 2020 05:52 PM IST
• Human activities cutting off tiger gene flow in NE: Tiger census report

  
  28 Jul 2020 08:49 PM IST
• Bodos ready to welcome PM; Ulfa sets talks terms

  
  07 Feb 2020 11:42 AM IST
• A coronated prince and IIT grad help MHA seal Bodo peace accord

  
  30 Jan 2020 10:32 AM IST
• ATMs go dry in Guwahati, chicken sells for 500/kg

  
  15 Dec 2019 07:06 AM IST
• Mizo volleyball player breastfeeds baby during match break, wins hearts, and the Internet

  
  11 Dec 2019 12:45 PM IST
• Assam to make public information on Hindu Bengalis out of NRC

  
  29 Nov 2019 12:14 PM IST
• Assam NRC: 19, 30, Or 50L? Chasing aliens or ghosts?

  
  01 Sep 2019 12:17 PM IST
• 19 lakh left out, final Assam NRC elicits anger & sense of betrayal

  
  01 Sep 2019 11:05 AM IST
• Cost of NRC appeal may go up to Rs 50,000

  
  25 Aug 2019 10:38 AM IST
• No tinkering with Article 371, Amit Shah assures states

  
  07 Aug 2019 11:23 AM IST
• Guns earlier, now gold smuggled from Myanmar is worrying India

  
  29 Jun 2019 11:22 AM IST
• In a first, Myanmar jails 24 northeast militants

  
  18 May 2019 10:22 AM IST
• 29 years after it was imposed, AFSPA set to be withdrawn from Assam

  
  17 May 2019 10:22 AM IST
• This former guerrilla scripted Congress defeat

  
  12 Dec 2018 10:35 AM IST
• India and China open new meeting point for armies

  
  17 Aug 2018 11:20 AM IST
• Over a lakh entered NRC's first draft with forged papers

  
  04 Aug 2018 11:49 AM IST
• Bengal among worst defaulters in NRC verification

  
  01 Aug 2018 10:26 AM IST
• Policy change? Dhaka to take back migrants

  
  30 May 2018 11:48 AM IST
• Past thin red line, fear of CPM goons vanishes

  
  04 Mar 2018 11:08 AM IST
• How BJP wooed Bengali Hindus and yet kept tribals on its side

  
  04 Mar 2018 10:55 AM IST
• Out of Congress, Himanta Biswa Sarma now BJP’s kingmaker

  
  04 Mar 2018 10:34 AM IST
• Chinese drive up to border, Indians walk for 19 hours

  
  13 Jan 2018 10:48 AM IST
• Didn’t know it was Indian territory till Chinese arrived with excavators: Officials

  
  11 Jan 2018 10:03 AM IST
• How Chinese road construction activity in Arunachal Pradesh was detected

  
  09 Jan 2018 08:42 PM IST
• Foreigner or citizen? Assam finds out at stroke of midnight on Dec 31

  
  27 Dec 2017 11:23 AM IST
• High turbidity turning river Siang black: Lab reports

  
  03 Dec 2017 09:00 AM IST
• Arunachal's Siang river turns black, officials blame China

  
  29 Nov 2017 10:37 PM IST
• No citizenship for refugees, Arunachal says in one voice

  
  22 Sep 2017 10:37 AM IST
• India's longest bridge near LAC under threat?

  
  03 Jun 2017 07:39 AM IST
• Country's longest bridge over the Brahmaputra in Assam has rendered 150 boatmen jobless

  
  27 May 2017 10:41 AM IST
• After 26 years, Assam may lift AFSPA in some areas

  
  06 May 2017 10:48 AM IST
• 90% of Assam natives don't have land-ownership papers

  
  02 May 2017 11:17 AM IST
• Don't visit northeast, don't speak against China: Ulfa to Dalai Lama

  
  29 Mar 2017 11:00 AM IST
• Nahid Afrin leaflet was an appeal, not a fatwa: Muslim body

  
  17 Mar 2017 12:12 PM IST