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.
Amid tight security, Narendra Modi landed in Dibruagrh on Saturday morning en route to Arunachal Pradesh.The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate landed at Dibrugarh Airport at 10-15 in the morning to be received by BJP leader Kamakhya Prasad Tasa.During his brief halt in Dibrugarh Airport, the Gujarat Chief Minister talked to the family members of Ananta Hazarika and Gopi Gogoi who died after attending the recent rally in Guwahati.Then he left for Arunachal Pradesh by a helicoopter at 10-30 to attend a huge rally in Pasighat.
The Asom Gana Parishad is holding its steering committee meeting in Guwahati on Saturday to chalk out strategies for the Lok Sabha polls slated for May.To be presided over by president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta at the party headquarters in Ambari, the meeting is expected to take a final decision on forging a post poll alliance with other political parties.Friday’s meeting failed to arrive at a consensus. The party has yet to finalise the list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Silchar breaks into a sea of humanity Saturday as Narendra Modi is holding a huge rally in the town to woo the voters.The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is scheduled to arrive in the Kumbhirgram Airport at 11-30 in the morning. Then he would leave straightly for the rally beside the ISBT.A massive security is there to ensure peace and normalcy during the rally.
Amid a massive security arrangement, Indo-Bangladesh border is being sealed to prevent any element from entering into the Barak valley during Narendra Modi’s rally. Tight security is seen in and around the Kumbhirgram Airport where he is scheduled to land at 11-30 in the morning. The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is scheduled leave straightly for the rally beside the ISBT.Towards the end of his day long north east trip, the Gujarat Chief Minister is holding yet another huge rally in Agartala.
Three mysterious explosions struck panic in Chandmari areas in Guwahati on Friday evening.The explosions took place at the irrigation colony in the city at around 8 in the evening spreading panic among the local residents.Eyewitnesses told Assam Times that they came to hear the sounds of three explosions with 30 minutes. Then they came to see fire sparks and smokes from three drains inside the colony.There is no casualty in the explosions. But a section of the panic stricken people in the colony think it an attempt to blow up the colony buildings.
The hawker-agent impasse in Guwahati has knocked the doors of judiciary where trouble seems to have brewed for the hawkers.Amid an attempt to end the impasse, the court on Friday called the strike an illegal under the Industrial Dispute Act which is why, the agents are set to recruit fresh hawkers from Saturday.Notably, the hawkers have not been working in Guwahati for the last 5 days demanding hike in their commission amount from the existing 28 per cent to 35 per cent.
A circle of Congress legislators have been camping to blacken the poll prospect of MP Ranee Narah amid specualtions of resurfacing dissidence in Congress legislative body.Legislators Balin Chetia, Abu Taher Bepari along with a few others have arrived in New Delhi on Friday. They are set to meet the powerful AICC leaders to prevent the Union minister from getting ticket for upcoming Lok Sabha polls this time.They are believed to have been trying to target a few other close associates of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
Despite strict vigil, Guwahati runs the risk of witnessing more trouble when the city is teeming with a section militants who can foment trouble at any moment.City police have arrested a Prepak militant on Friday evening and seized from incriminating documents from his possession.
Security forces claimed to have arrested a hardcore NDFB(S) militant in Barpeta district on Friday.The militant was captured during a combing operation by police and CRPF at Pathsala in the evening. An AK-47 rifle along with some incriminating materials were recovered from him.
KMSS is up in arms against the Tarun Gogoi government alleging defective land patta distribution in Guwahati slated for February 24.The peasant body has made it clear that they would go all out against the Rahul Gandhi’s two days trip to Assam if the government fails to clear the land pattas for all the genuine beneficiaries by February 24.The reaction came after revenue minister Prithvi Majhi said that out of 62,000, only 500 people are set to get land pattas in Guwahati.
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