Four days have passed since a Pawan Hans chopper carrying Tirap DC Avinash Joshi went missing on way to Longding from Khunsa. But the chopper which is believed to have crashed is still remaining untraceable.
A Sukhoi Jet along with three other choppers have been trying to locate the ill fated chopper. But there seems to be no success.
The officials deployed in the search operation are concentrating on a hugely dense jungle bordering Assam where the local villagers claimed to have heard a sound of explosion in the sky before the chopper went missing.
Earlier the weather was not so comfortable. But now the sky is clear and that’s why, the authorities hope that the search operation will be successful.
The chopper carrying Joshi along with two others, went missing from Khunsa to Longding visa Dibrugarh where the last contact was received on Tuesday.
World Environment Day was observed by students and faculties of Radiant International School, Sonapur in Kamrup District in collaboration with Kaziranga Wildlife Society with the message ' Plant more trees, fight Air Pollution'.
A plantation programme was carried on in the school premises followed by interaction with the young students.
Journalist Chandan Kumar Duarah, Padum Borthakur, Mubina Akhtar and Anup Sarma - office -bearers of Kaziranga Wildlife Society, Shabori Purkayastha, principal of Radiant Int School highlighted the need to protect the environment by every individual.
Sushil Tamuly and S Roychoudhury CMD and Director respectively of the school also took...
Guwahati: Assam’s premier health care institute, Barthakur Clinic organized a media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 1 June 2019, where practicing physician Dr Jury Das was available for free consultations to the participants. Nurse Lucy Songbai from the city based hospital helped over 30 scribes to get their blood pressure checked in the camp.
Next media OPD clinic for the benefit of working journalists along with their families will be conducted by a newly launched super specialty healthcare institute Excelcare Hospitals on 8 June at the press club premises.
The tenth Manash Borah Memorial North East Inter Institutional Debating Competition was concluded successfully on 31 May 2019 at Pragjyoti ITA, Machkhowa, Guwahati. More than twenty teams from across the state participated in the hard fought competition. The Competition is sponsored by the Manash Borah Memorial Trust (MBMT) and is organized by Old Boys Association, Sainik School Goalpara (OBASSG), the apex body of the alumni of Sainik School Goalpara, a premier residential school of the region. Manash Borah was an alumnus of SSG and was very instrumental in the formation of OBASSG. It is noteworthy that the Competition has completed a decade of glorious organization (2010-2019).
The...
Guwahati: One of the oldest nursing homes of Assam, Barthakur Clinic will conduct the next media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club on 1 June 2019 for the benefit of its member-journalists.
The participants will get the opportunity to consult with experienced doctors from the city based hospital and also blood pressures checked in the camp (between 3.30 pm and 5 pm).
In yet another deadly attack Naga rebels killed 2 soldiers in Mon district on Saturday.
The incident took place at Tobu in Mon district of Nagaland at 1.45 in the afternoon where 2 Assam Rifles jawans died on the spot and 3 others sustained serious injury.
According to reports, as the soldiers reached Tobu the rebels were hiding on the roadside lobbed a powerful grenade at the vehicle and this was followed by indiscriminate firing.
The rebels fled from the spot before the arrival of army, police and para military forces. The injured have been shifted to the hospital.
A massive combing operation is in progress to apprehend the rebels.
The incident took place hardly a...
Guwahati: The ruling BJP is taking huge lead in the state where Congress is talking initial lead only in 2 seats.
AIUDF is leading in Dhubri and Karimganj while AGP is leading in Barpeta. BJP is leading in Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Nagaon, Diphu, Lakhimpur, Tezpur, Mangaldoi and Silchar.
Congress is leading in Kaliabor and Guwahati while AGP is taking a comfortable lead in Barpeta.
Itanagar: At least 10 people including an assembly poll candidates from NPP were believed to have died when suspected NSCN(K) rebels exploded a powerful bomb in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh on Monday.
The incident took place around 11.30 when Khonsa West MLA and BJP candidate Tirang Aboh accompanied by his personnel assistant and security guards were on a trip. As Aboh and his convoy reach Birdoria area the Naga rebels who were waiting on the roadside ambushed the team where the entire team members were said to have died.
Security forces reached the spit and cordoned off the entire area to nab the culprits.
The NPP is extremely shocked and saddened by the news of the...
Guwahati: Over 100 people sustained injury and properties worth thousands of crores have been damaged as a ravaging storm lashed 3 Upper Assam districts on Sunday.
The storm ravaged thousands of houses started at 9 in the evening lasted for around 15 minutes leaving a trail of devastation in Jorhat,Sivasagar and Dibrugarh districts.
"As we were having dinner at around 9, the huge storm started and within 5 minutes many houses in our villages have been damaged. Uprooted trees have blocked the roads in many places," said Sarat Saikia, a local resident of Basbari area in Sivasagar district on Monday.
"The storm was very brief but strong where none of the houses in my village has...
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