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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Mysterious death of an elderly unmarried woman at Jhakuapara village under Kalaigaon police station in Udalguri district has created sensation in the areas. According to information received, the...
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Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has condemned the unprovoked attacks on some media persons representing different news channels at Kalaigaon of Darang district on Friday. Mentionable is that...
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A five years old wild elephant has been found dead at a paddy field in Majuli Basti village under Dimakuchi Police Station in Udalguri district on August 28. According to veterinary sources it had...
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The All Koch Rajbongshi Students Union (AKRSU) condemned the atrocities by West Bengal police on agitators of Greater Coochbehar Peoples Association demanding statehood demand of Coochbehar in West...
Guwahati: Senior journalist Pranabjit Doloi has passed away Monday afternoon (around 5.30 pm on 30 December 2019) in a private hospital.
He was suffering from liver related ailments for some time. Started his career in the Sentinel group as a reporter Doloi later worked for satellite news channels including Dy365, Frontier TV, NewsTimeAssam and NewsNetwork. He also earned applauses as a documentary filmmaker.
Doloi (50) left behind wife, only son with other relatives and well-wishers. His last rites will performed tomorrow in North Guwahati and prior to that the city-based media fraternity will pay their last respects to Doloi at Guwahati Press Club by 9.30 am.
A social media user ad activist Saket Gokhale has been fearlessly taking on the establishment with his legal interventions and campaigning.
Gokhle now seeks support in taking on the hate machinery.
What's the problem?
Over the past many years, there's one important lesson I've learnt. And that lesson is you never appeal to the conscience of a fascist.
We are today at the precipice of our democratic future. The foundation of our freedom & our secularism stands at a fork in the road. We are amidst an existential crisis.
The rise of the Modi regime has been fuelled by a propaganda machine. And the foundation of this machine is HATE.
This hate has gone unchecked over the...
Award winning film maker Jahnu Barua lambasts the government in Delhi on the imposition of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
Barua has issued a statement on social media appealing peaceful protest.
Statement from Jahnu Barua, filmmaker:
"With the capacity of their power alone, Delhi has today disrobed the motherland of the people of Assam and the North East. In this attempt to annihilate us, our traitorous leaders have sold their souls to join hands with Delhi. My appeal to each individual in Assam and the North East - let us keep up the fight. In the same way that we were victorious in the past, we must win in this one too. My friends, please keep in mind that our movement...
KOKRAJHAR: The second triennial conference of the Kokrajhar district unit of Goria Moria Desi Jatiya Parishad has begun from Saturday with two days programme scheduled at Baghulaora Malgaon in Kokrajhar district.
As part of the programme scheduled,Sheik Selim Patgiri,president of the Parishad hoisted hoisted flag.
Secretary of the district unit,Rustam Ali paid floral tribute to the martyrs.
A cleanliness drive was carried out in the event to mark the conference besides a sports competition amongst the students also organised.
A sapling plantation drive and delegate session were also initiated in the conference.
A new executive committee of the district unit was formed in the...
Guwahati: City-based Apollo Hospital today (28 December 2019) conducted a media OPD clinic at Guwahati Press Club, where Dr Adwaita Avatar Chakravarty (medicine) and Dr Joydeep Ghosh (ortho & spine surgeon) were available for free consultations to the participants. Rasmita Sarma from the hospital with health workers namely Kabita Nath and Lalchik Kim supported the member-journalists to check their pulse, blood pressure & sugar in the camp.
A representative of the United States House of Representatives, Debra Anne Haaland issues statement in social media showing concern on police crack down on protesters of the on going protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
"I’m deeply concerned about Indian Prime Minister Modi's Citizenship Amendment Act which discriminates against religious minorities" Haaland wrote in her Facebook and Twitter timeline.
Haaland has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene to rescind the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which according to her "Indian Muslims are being targeted based on how they worship. I urge PM Modi to rescind this law immediately."
Haaland is a U.S...
New Jeysey, USA based The Rutgers AAUP-AFT (American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers), has issued a soliderity statement with Student Protesters in India.
The Rutgers AAUP-AFT stands in solidarity with students, faculty, and protesters at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Aligarh Muslim University, and elsewhere across India who are protesting the passing of The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (now Act) 2019 (CAA). We condemn unjustified police violence against peaceful protesters.
The police have perpetrated violent reprisal against students who have dissented and several students have suffered serious bodily harm. This is a dissent from the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges Indian government to "stop using unnecessary lethal force against CAA protesters".
New York: The Indian authorities should cease using unnecessary lethal force against demonstrators protesting a law that discriminates against Muslims, Human Rights Watch said today. Since protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act began on December 12, 2019, at least 25 people have been killed and hundreds have been arrested.
Police have used excessive force only against demonstrators protesting the law, including many students. All the deaths have occurred in states governed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): 18 in Uttar...
Kumar Sanjay Krishna, an Assam Meghalya 1985 cadre IAS officer, going to be the next Chief Secretary of Assam.
Krishna is now serving as Additional Chief Secretary, Home & Political Department.
Current Chief Secretary Alok Kumar is goingto to retire on December 31.
Shrinkhal Chaliha, the firebrand leader of the Veer Lachi Sena which has been vehemently protesting against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act, 2019, was arrested again by the police on Monday.
Chaliha was picked up by the police from Barbarooah locality of Dibrugah where he took part in a protest rally organised against the C(A)A,2019.
He was arrested earlier in the current month on charges of making objectionable comments while protesting against the controversial Act.
However, he was released on that day itself.
Sources in the Dibrugarh police informed media persons that the leader was arrested in a case registered with a police station in Guwahati.
As per the Veer...
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