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.
8 Mar 2008 - 4:01pm | editor
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Problems after problems seem to have stifled Assam and its people. Precisely, the problems are hydra-headed. Lack of civic sense and lackadaisical attitude of the authorities have further compounded...
Guwahati: For the last 6 months BJP and it's coalition have been focusing on Mission 100 in the 2021 assembly polls. But then things seem to have changed if what state BJP president Ranjit Das said on Thursday is any indication.
Das, who till the other day boasted of Mission 100 has changed his course of statement and remained confined to 84. "If the assembly polls are conducted today we will get 84," said Das.
On Sunday last party Vice president denied any question of new CM candidate in 2021 polls. But Das spoke otherwise on Thursday. He said the central party leadership would take the final call. But never he spoke on the say of the elected legislators who, in fact,...
Guwahati: In a move that could impede AGP’s poll prospect, the Asom Gana Parishad is contemplating swapping a number of seats with BJP putting the political career of a few party architects in dire trouble.
According to sources, BJP, the main ruling coalition partner has agreed to take over Barhampur much to the disappointment of the founder president and two-term Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. If it so happens, Mahanta will no longer be the AGP candidate from his home turf.
Same it is going to happen in case of Brindabon Goswami who won't be able to contest again from Tezpur since BJP will contest from his home constituency. Other constituencies include...
Guwahati: The much-hyped Congress-AIUDF alliance to beat BJP in 2021 assembly polls hits a major road block when a recent AICC survey suggested otherwise.
The survey has predicted the dismal performance of the party in 2021 assembly polls and that the party would be decimated in upper Assam if the party openly strikes an alliance with AIUDF. But it would help the grand old party consolidate the minority votes in lower and central Assam zones.
The survey further suggested a secret alliance just before the polls in lower Assam, central Assam and Barak valley. But in Barak valley, the senior Congress leaders have been opposing such deal with AIUDF.
The survey further suggested an...
Guwahati: Amid an escalating COVID19 menace Assam joined the Independence Day celebrations on Saturday. The celebrations were low profile in view of the guidelines for maintaining social distance.
Amid watertight security Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal hoisted the national and took salute of the armed forces at the Judges’ Field in the morning.
Ministers, MLAs and bureaucrats along with many parties and organizations also hoisted the tricolour to retain the formalities keeping aside the cultural ands entertainment programmes.
Shops and markets did not open in view of 12 hour statewide Assam bandh by United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA-I) alleging empirical and colonial...
Guwahati: Police have detained a youth in Dispur on the basis of a complaint lodged by Zubeen Garg who alleged an attempt of attack on him by a group of goons on Wednesday night. According to the allegation, a group of 6 youths stopped his car and tried to physically assault the singer who was on his way back home at night.
Police have already tracked down the vehicle used by the miscreants. Police have arrested the owner of the vehicle and have been looking for the absconding miscreants. Many organizations and individuals have condemned it.
The singer, who strongly opposed CAA hit media headlines recently for accepting the offer of brand ambassador in the state’s...
New Delhi: Noted journalist, columnist Sanjoy Hazarika said that the debate and dialogue on Clause VI need to be conducted with respect and “not lead to social media abuse or prejudice or make a complex situation more difficult.”
Talking to Assam Times, Hazarika, who is also the Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) said, “the simple thing for the Centre to decide -- and I am referring to the GoI and not any particular party or coalition -- is will it stand judicial scrutiny because it is bound to be challenged in the courts and could lead to an even more convoluted and protracted process? Will it stand the test of Constitutional validity? ...
Guwahati: A lower court in Guwahati on Wednesday asked Kolkata based intellectual Garga Chatterjee to surrender before it by August 27.
The court has issued the order after the court was apprised that Chatterjee who made defamatory remarks against first Ahom king Chaulung Sukafa.
The court further slammed the failure of Kolkata police to arrest the Bangla Pakhya leader even after a nonbailable warrant was issued.
He called the pioneer of the Ahom emperor as Chinese invader ad questioned the government’s intention to celebrate Assam Day.
Guwahati: Caught in a deep dilemma over the fate of the Clause VI committee recommendations for the last 5 months, the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) on Tuesday revealed it forcing Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to break the silence.
Hours after the revelation, Sonowal said that Delhi and Dispur were committed to implementing the suggestions in letter and spirit to ensure constitutional protection to the genuine people.
CM admitted the delay in the process to implement the recommendation and blamed the nationwide COVID19 menace and flood fury.
But according to sources, the report has yet to reach Union home minister Amit Shah who has been reluctant to receive it and asked CM...
Guwahati: In a landmark act that rattles both Delhi and Dispur, the All Assam Students Union has put the Clause VI panel report in public domain which the Centre has not received yet.
Apart from ILP provision, the report strongly suggested a slew of measures to ensure constitutional safeguard for the indigenous people of Assam.
These include reservation of seats for indigenous people in job and legislative assembly, upper House.
The state's influential student organization has demanded measures to implement it since PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah repeatedly promised to implement it letter and spirit.
Notably, led by Justice (retd) BK Sarma...
Guwahati: Youth heartthrob Zubeen Garg will be the brand ambassador of the state's agriculture sector to uplift the back of the economic health.
The popular singer formally agreed to accept the stint as he called on state agriculture minister Atul Bora in Guwahati on Saturday.
The singer called on Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal two weeks back where he got the proposal informally.
His acceptance of the proposal assumed significance since he opposed tooth and nail BJP's CAA and urged the people to dislodge the Sonowal government which drew a huge response.
The singer was not available for comment on the question of his stiff opposition to CAA and promised to lead a...
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