The wreckage of the Pawan Hans helicopter Tirap Deputy Commissioner Kamalesh Joshi was found at a remote area of Arunachal Pradesh where it crash landed on Tuesday.
The rescue operation made with three choppers along with a Sukhoi Jet locate the wreckage at Thinsa in the wee hours tracing a phone calls from Joshi to his wife at 2-10 in the afternoon. Senior officials arrived in the crash site and recovered the decomposed bodies in the morning.
The chopper went missing on Tuesday on its way to Khunsa from Longding. The last contact was established at 11-30 with Mohanbari airport. Initially, the search operation was concentrated at an area near Dalom where a section of local residents claimed to have heard the sound of a huge explosion in the sky.
But rescuers failed to trace it even after deployment of a Sukhoi Jet along with three other helicopters during the last six days.
24 Sep 2015 - 7:53pm | Siddhartha Handique
Vishwa Dharma Chetna Manch and Sri Brahmarishi Ashram Ramapuram Tirupathy is jointly organizing a free yoga and naturopathy health camp at Maheswari Bhawan in Golaghat Sunday. The day long camp will...
11 Feb 2014 - 7:28am | Nava Thakuria
Most of the media persons of the city were diagnosed with various dental problems, where it was found that everyone has been using wrong brushing process and irregular cleaning of teeth. The...
7 Mar 2017 - 9:19am | Suvansu Bora
The Golaghat district administration steps up initiatives to provide the inferno hit people in Rangoliting relief materials who have been taking shelter at a local school.According yo the district...
9 Jan 2008 - 12:57pm | editor
Large scale violence in the form of booth capturing marred the third phase of panchayat polling in Nagaon district on Wednesday. The incident took place in the early hours at the two booths at the...
Governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated the Platinum Jubilee celebration of Gauhati University in a programme held at the university premises here today. It may be noted that the year-long celebration of the programme will end on 26 January 2023.
Speaking on the occasion, Governor Prof. Mukhi said that as the university embarked on the Platinum Jubilee Year, it was a matter of satisfaction that the University continued to provide excellent education along with policy inputs in geostrategic areas. The university’s academic exchange programmes and partnerships with the universities of several neighbouring countries continue to be the way for the nation’s Act East Policy. He also said that...
Natural disasters like floods are devastating. Women are the worst sufferers during disasters. The impact of flooding on health varies among populations and depends primarily on vulnerability and the kind of events experienced. It severely disrupts livelihoods and has a significant impact on the health of pregnant women, lactating mothers and children. It is important that pregnant and lactating mothers have adequate access to an appropriate dietary intake as both mothers and children are disproportionately affected in crisis.
Under the humanitarian response programme of the North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), a local grassroots organisation has been extending essential...
Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, wishes all media workers around the world a happy, secure and prosperous new year. The bygone year witnessed the killing of 79 media employees by assailants in 29 countries marking an improvement in the journo-murder index by 14% (where 92 were killed in 2020).
PEC recently confirmed the death of Burmese journalist A Kay Sai (also known as Sai Win Aung) due to serious head injuries from a shell operated by the Myanmar military junta in the Maekheewar village of Karen State on 25 December last. Sai (38) was trapped in the crossfire between the junta forces and KNLA rebels before finally being hit by artillery from...
RAHA: The candidates of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU) claimed a sweeping victory in the students' union election held at Raha college today.
AASU had an overwhelming win in all 12 seats for the 2021-2022 session.
AASU candidates Brajarani Devi , Jyoti Sankar Nath were elected as the president and vice-president while Amar Jyoti Nath was elected as general secretary, and Bishal Dey as the assistant general secretary.
Similarly, Bishal Das as the secretary for games, Lakhyajeet Nath as the editor, Magazine, Abinash Das as the cultural secretary, Pragyandweep Goswami as the debating secretary, Jayanta Nath as the secretary of social services and Tennis...
RAHA : Jongal Balahu Garh fish farm in Raha has become the first in state to start pearl farming. The largest fish farm in the state has started pearl farming in an experimental basis in its ponds that have been earlier used only for cultivating Indian major carps.
The project was inaugurated by Nagaon deputy commissioner Nisarg Hivare , IAS , on Sunday. He also chaired the function organised on the occasion at the farm premises.
Hivare , in his speech lauded the initiative taken up by the fishery department and believed that the new culture could bring a change to the fish farm and play a major role in spreading awareness of pearl culture , especially among the...
The Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering under the banner of the Health Care Unit of School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU), Guwahati has organized an “Awareness Webinar on Alcoholic Addiction and Drug Abuse among youths” in association with the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Central University of Haryana, India on 23 December 2021. More than 300 students from Assam Don Bosco University participated in the webinar.
The program kicked off with a welcome speech by the Director of the School of Technology, Assam Don Bosco University - Prof. Manoranjan Kalita. Addressing the audience, the chief guest minister...
A Training of Trainers (TOT) programme on ‘Psychosocial Care in Disaster’ was held on 22nd and 23rd December at the Ayang Okum river bank bamboo cottage, Majuli. The objective of the training was to build self-awareness and compassionate social care through community based psychosocial support to reduce mental health distress in disaster situations, as affected communities experience various psychological reactions.
The programme was organized by the North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS), a local humanitarian and development organisation in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore.
The training was imparted among...
Kathmandu, Nepal Friday 10th Dec 2021: National Press Club, Nepal and America Nepal Press Club awarded Community Development & Global Peace Journalism 7th International Award 2020 to Nanda K Dewan, a community journalist based in Guwahati.
Along side International Human Rights Day, in an award function presided by NPC president Ram Krishna Kramacharya, Federal Democratic Government of Nepal's cabinet minister for Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration Right Honorable Rajendra Prasad Shrestha presented the International Journalism Award to Nanda K Dewan here in Kathmandu, Nepal on Friday in presence of members of journalism fraternity, representative of various...
Guwahati/New Delhi: A New Delhi based high octane news portal broke a story on a nefarious land scam involving Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's family members that touched off a seismic wave of reaction in the social media from Wednesday.
Media seems to have taken the centre stage of debate and discussion in the knowledgable circle for it's stoic silence giving new force to the social media.
Assam government is silent.
So is the ruling BJP and it's allies.
Guwahati: December 6: Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) condemns the brutal and senseless murder of innocent Naga wage earners and their protesting allies by the Indian armed forces. Even as our region prepares for the season of peace and festivities, special forces of the Indian army ambushed and killed young Naga men returning home to their village from working on the coal mines in the Mon district. News reports say that they were in a pick-up truck and singing songs, as they were happy to return home for the weekend on 4 December 2021. The army ambushed them between Lower Tiru, where they had gone to work in the mines, and Oking, where they lived. As per reports in the local media...
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