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.
The Ahomes in the state and outside are observing the Me-dam-me-fi to worship their ancestors on Friday.Prayers are being organized to the Ahom forefathers across the state asking for divine help to ensure world peace and prosperity.Ahom community people in Guwahati are holding pujas in the make shift Moidams for puja offering from early in the morning.The historic Ahom mansions in Sivasagar are teeming with people to worship the forefathers with a day long programme. Reports of Me-dam-me-fi celebration are pouring in from Mumbai and Delhi.
The Sonitpur police have registered a case against a district council member in Arunachal Pradesh in connection with the Wednesday’s Bihali firing where 10 villagers died.According to sources, police filed a suo moto case against Balijan district council member Nabam Ekka charging him with aiding and abetting the miscreants who attacked the camp in the afternoon. On the other hand, protesters have demanded the Arunachal Pradesh government to hand over the miscreants within the next 48 hours. They further asked adequate compensation to the victims’ family members.
Apart from Pawan Singh Ghatowar in Dibrugarh and Gaurav Gogoi in Kaliabor, AICC screening panel has cleared the names of Ranee Narah from Lakhimpur, Biren Singh Engti from Diphu.Chaired by Sushil Kumar Shinde, the screening panel further has finalized Bijoy Krishna Handique in Jorhat, Wazed Ali Chaudhury in Dhubri. The names were cleared on Wednesday night at the meeting convened at the residence of Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde presence of APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and AICC general secretary in charge of Assam Dr CP Joshi.
BPF legislators have asked the Congress leadership to ensure the victory of Biswajeet Daimary in the Rajya Sabha polls otherwise the candidate would pull out of the poll process.Immediately after collecting the papers for withdrawal of the nomination by Daimary on Thursday, BPF MLAs tried to reach the Congress leadership to discuss the issue.The Congress leadership is believed to have told BPF not to take any hasty decision in this regard. Congress sources called it a pressure tactic by the BPF.
A Bangladesh court on Thursday ordered capital punishment for ULFA chief Paresh Baruah along with 14 others in the sensational arms smuggling case.The order was issued by the Chittagang court in the country three and a half years after it ordered arrest of the ULFA chief in the case where police seized ten trucks of arms and ammunition meant for Paresh Baruah in 2004.
BPF candidate Biswajeet Daimary is likely to pull out of the race for the Rajya Sabha polls slated for February 7.Daimary on Thursday collected papers for withdrawal of nomination papers. Talking to reporters at the Assam Assembly secretariat he said that BPF can’t go it alone in the Rajya Sabha polls. He said that he would contest if he was sure of success.“Otherwise I won’t contest. We will win only with Congress support. But if I am projected as the third choice, we won’t be able to manage the number,” said Daimary.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi reviewed the situation in Sonitpur district with deputy commissioner Lalit Gogoi and police superintendent Sanyukta Parashar on Thursday.Immediately after laying the foundation stone of the Tezpur Medical College in Tubuki, Gogoi drove to Bihali and condemned the incident.AGP and BJP also rushed their teams to study the situation in the wake of the firing incident.
Local people in large number are on an indefinite economic blockade against Arunachal Pradesh in Harmoti a day after the firing incident in Bihali where 10 villagers were killed on Wednesday.Thousands of people in the area blocked the National Highway No 52 to prevent supply of essential commodities to Arunachal Pradesh. Nearly one hundred trucks carrying essential commodities are remaining stranded under the impact of the blockade.
Thousands of people in Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts have blocked the National Highway No 52 to prevent supply of essential commodities to Arunachal Pradesh in protest against the firing incident in Bihali where 10 villagers were killed on Wednesday. Protesters thronged the national highway in Borgang and blocked the vehicles bound for Arunachal Pradesh. KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi, who joined the blockade said that the economic blockade would be indefinite.
AASU activists across the state on Thursday staged dharna in protest against the fielding of Sanjay Singh in the Rajya Sabha polls.Students in districts and sub divisional headquarters hanged the effigies of Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi, chief minister Tarun Gogoi and APCC president Bhubneswar Kalita in public places and later burnt down these alleging that the Congress party has been using the state as its dumping ground.
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