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.
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Guwahati: The figure of COVID19 cases has reached 20 with 4 more people tested positive on Friday.
According state health minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma, of these three from Nalbari while the remaining one is from North Salmara.
He said that all patients who have travel history to Nizamuddin in Delhi are now stable.
New Delhi: UP police have caught 13 people from Assam in Moradabab who were hiding at a local mosque.
According to information, police tracked down all these 13 people from Assam at a mosque in Barwalan area on Wednesday.
According to SP in Moradabad Amit Kumar Anand, they have been shifted to quarantine for treatment.
This was revealed hours after health minister confirmed 16 COVID 19 cases in the state. They are from Jagiroad, Galaghat, Nalbari and Goalpara.Moradabad: 13 people who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi have been picked from a mosque in Barwalan area. Amit Kumar Anand, SP City says,"they are all...
Guwahati: More and more COVID 19 positive cases have been surfacing.
Two more people have tested positive in Goal para with travel history to Delhi where they attended the religious congregation at Nizamuddin.
Before that health minister confirmed 14 cases in Karimganj, Jagiroad and Nalbari with the same travel back ground.
Alert ~ 3 more #COVID19 positive cases in Goalpara, Assam, taking the total to 16.
These three new cases are also of those who joined #TablighiJamaat congregation at #NizamuddinMarkaz.
Update at 12:15 am / April 2
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) April 1, 2020
Guwahati: Four more people have tested COVID 19 positive at Guwahati Medical College Hospital on Wednesday taking figure of positive cases to 5.
According to state health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, GMCH laboratory has confirmed COVID19 positive in Jamaluddin Arshad Ali, Hazarat Ali, Nuruddin and Jonab Ali, who attended the religious function held at Nizamuddin in Delhi in mid March. Sarma said that all those who attended the congragation in the capital city have yet to arrive in thte state.
Moreover, four others who attended the congregation are suspected COVID19 positive and have been undergoing treatment in Delhi. They have been identified as Naskar Ali, Bahar Uddin, Mustafa Ali...
Sivasagar: The Dibrugarh police again arrested Akhil Gogoi immediately after the peasant leader stepped out of the Sibsagar Central Jail on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters, the RTI activist, who was arrested amid escalating protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. 2019 dared CM Sarbananda Sonowal to read the writings on the wall saying that he also might face the consequences.
"I am ailing. I am multiple diseases and instead of releasing me police have been arresting me on a number of cases " said Gogoi.
Gogoi further rued" my mother's condition is very bed. She had not been able to undergo an eye surgery in my absence."
Notably, the authorities are...
Guwahati: The participating people in the religious function at the Nizamuddin shrine have been figured after the state confirmed the first one COVID19 patient undergoing treatment at the Silchar Medical College Hospital in Delhi.
According to information, altogether 299 people attended the function along with 3000 others from the country and abroad on March 13 and 14.
Those who have been listed out have been under to undergo medical scanning at this stage.
Kpkrajhar MP Nabo Sarania also visited the shrine. But he told a Guwahati based media that he visited the place to meet one of the participating people.
Silchar: Finally, the state confirmed it's first COVID19 patient with a travel history to Delhi where the cancer patient attended a religious function at Nizamuddin recently.
The 55 year old patient from Karimganj was undergoing treatment of cancer at the Silchar Medical College for the last couple of days.
Doctors attending on him advised quarantine treatment which he defied and kept moving in Mehekpur area in the Barakvalley town.
After preliminary confirmation, the sample was sent to Pune for laboratory confirmation which suggested it a COVID 19 positive case.
The authorities have been investigating and scrutinizing his profile. He confessed his participation in...
Guwahati: In a bid to give some sort of respite in the time of nationwide lock down, the Assam government is launching a slew of schemes targeting 72 lakh families in the state.
Presided over by CM Sarbananda Sonowal, the meeting resolved provide free rice for 58 lakh families under the National Food Security (NFS) Scheme from Wednesday.
This is in addition to Rs 1000 each to the poor families whom NFS Act has not covered. The meeting allowed the trucks ferrying essentials commodities to enter into the State from Wednesday.
Tea gardens will start resuming operations from the same day. But the authorities will have to follow the rules of the health department. Same rules...
Amid the killer corona menace, the authorities have stepped up activities to firmly deal with illicit liquor racket.
A huge consignment of illicit liquor has been seized and destroyed by Police in Duhnoi on Monday.
Golaghat: Amid the strict enforcement of nation wide to fight the killer COVID19, the gruesome assault of police on two farming women has triggered no less shock and anger among the local resident.
The incident took place at Bagijan area on Saturday when a group of policemen came to see two women villagers in the paddy fields and mercilessly assaulted them for violating the lock down which is expected to be over by April 15.
" Both the women maintained social distancing and they were alone in the paddy field. What mistakes they have done to be beaten up so mercilessly," said Lokomoni Saikia, a local housewife.
Balwan Phukan a villager said," since they worked for livelihood and...
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