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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As Assam is going through a major upheaval to protest against the citizenship act to protect 'jati, mati and bheti' (community, land and base) of the state , the Dallas Assamese met on 21st December to show solidarity with Assam and protest against the .
The event took place at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza. The group gathered around the statue of Mahatma Gandhi holding placards and Assamese "Gamusa" calling for a withdrawal of the act.
“We are here to say that we stand in solidarity with our Assamese brothers and sisters and all other students and people protesting across India,” said one of the protesters. Ankur Bora , an active member of Assamese diaspora expressing his views...
Secretary General of Naga People's Front and Rajya Sabha MP KG Kenye resigns from the post of Secretary General.
He was issued a show-cause notice by the NPF Disciplinary Action Committee (DAC) for voting in favour of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Parliament.
Kenye sent his letter of regisnation to NPF president on Friday.
The All Assam Students Union (AASU) submitted a writ petition at Supreme Court challenging Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA).
The Supreme Court will hear a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 on Wednesday 18 December.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.______ OF 2019
(Petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India read with Order XXXVIII of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013)
IN THE MATTER OF:
ALL ASSAM STUDENTS UNION
THROUGH ITS PRESIDENT, DIPANKA KUMAR NATH GOPINATH BORDOLOI NAGAR GUWAHATI-786014, ASSAM...
Dr Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti, Associate Professor of Economics in A. D. P. College, Nagaon, Assam, has contributed few important suggestion to Assam Accord high level committee regarding safeguards for the indigenous people of Assam. .
Dr Borkakoti appeared before the high level committee on clause 6 of Assam Accord at Tezpur on November 28 at the invitation of Government of Assam.
The high level committee is chaired by Justice (Retd) B. K. Sharma.
Inner line should be introduced in Assam with maximum limit of 30 day stay; people from rest of India coming to work here be given 5 year work permit at a time.
Acquisition right of land should be restricted to indigenous people only....
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, in short, is referred to as “CAB”. The bill which was passed by both the houses of the Parliament (Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha) have been granted assent by the President and has now become an Act. It will come into force on such date as the Central Government notifies in the Official Gazette.
Who are the persons covered by CAB?
CAB grants citizenship to any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis or Christians community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before 31st day of December 2014 and they will not be treated as an illegal migrant. The bill also reduces the duration of residency from...
Government is arranging food, medicine, water and transportation for passengers stranded in Guwahati airport, Paltan Bazar railway station, and ISBT.
Transportation is also being arranged for passengers stranded at Bongaigaon, New Jalpaiguri railway stations.
The administration is also opened state emergency control room helpline: Toll Free 1097, mobile no: 94010-44617.
The Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioners office has opened toll free no: 1077 and 0361-2733052.
This was stated in a press release by Directorate of Information & Public Relations on Friday.
This is copied from a netigen from Assam clarifying the protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 (CAB).
Ever since the CAB is passed in Lok Sabha, massive protests erupted all over the state of Assam. Non-Assamese people, living outside Assam, are confused as to why are they protesting?
Is it their love for secularism or is it a left liberal agenda, sponsored by external agencies? Are they generally protest-happy folks without jobs or there are genuine concerns that we, non-Assamese people, don’t understand?
Let me clarify it.
We are not protesting against CAB because we are a bunch of left liberal pseudo-seculars who are unhappy because persecuted Muslims are...
BJP leader and Chariman of Assam Petrochemicals Limited Jagadish Bhuyan announced his regisnation from the party and all posts protesting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
Bhuyan joins the hunger strike organised by All Assam Students Union in Guwahati on Friday.
Bhuyan was a minister earlier during Asom Gana Parishad rule. Later, he joined BJP after facing defeat as AGP candidate.
On June 7, 2015 after stating "I have lost faith in the AGP which has become directionless and was shrinking each passing day. The BJP on the other hand is the right party to fight for the cause of Assam..." Jagadish Bhuyan along with several senior members of the AGP from Tinsukia district to join...
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