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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Asom Gana Parishad is holding a crucial meeting in Guwahati on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing crippling crisis.President Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is presiding the meeting at the party headquarters where the district bodies are appraising the leadership of the prevailing situation. Despite instructions, all district committees are not attending the meeting. Some of the top leaders are conspicuous by their absence.
Despite strict vigilance Kaziranga is yet to get rid of the repeated rhino poaching incidents.Yet another body of rhino was found in the national park on Tuesday. The hornless rhino body was spotted at Kukurkata inside the Burhapahar range of the national park. Poachers are suspected to have killed the full grown rhino two days ago. Photo: Dhrubajyoti Saha, Kaziranga.
An antelope was killed and another injured while trying move to a highland as flood scene turns grim in the Kaziranga National Park.The two animals were hit by a speeding vehicle last night when they were crossing NH 37 along the Park to move to the highlands in neighbouring Karbi Anglong district through the Mirimihi animal corridor. The injured antelope was sent to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation. Vast areas the national park have also been affected. Vehicular movement has been restricted from Sunday morning on NH 37, which passes through the park and which animals use to cross into the southern side on their way from the low lying areas of the park.
The overall flood situation worsened with more and more villages getting submerged. Floodwaters entered the Kaziranga National Park where an antelope was killed.Over 65,000 people of 170 villages in seven districts - Dhemaji, Tinsukia, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup, Karimganj and Lakhimpur - were affected.The mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries Jia Bharali and Dikhow were flowing over danger mark at Jorhat, Sonitpur and Sivasagar.Altogether 43 villages have come under water in Dhemaji, Jorhat and Sivasagar districts since yesterday affecting nearly 5,000 people. Around 800 people are taking shelter in three relief camps in Dhemaji.
Professor Gautam Biswas is tipped to become the next director of IIT Guwahati.The director of Central Mechanical Engineering and Research Institute in Durgapur is all set to replace Gautam Barua, whose tenure as the director ended. Barua served in the top position for 10 years.A search-cum-selection panel headed by human resource development minister M.M. Pallam Raju has selected Biswas for the job.President Pranab Mukherjee, who is the visitor of the institute, will have to clear the appointment after which Biswas will get a five-year term as the director, sources said.
The 1978 batch IAS Officer Prem Prasad Varma, who is presently serving as the Additional Chief Secretary of Assam has taken over the charge of Chief Secretary of Assam on Monday. He has taken over the charge of Chief Secretary of Assam at 4 PM from Naba Kumar Das who has gone on superannuation.Additional Chief Secretary Jitesh Khosla and Commissioner & Secretary, GAD Ganesh Kalita and others were also present at the time of taking over of charge at the office chamber of Chief Secretary at Assam Secretariat, Dispur.
A 12 years young boy named Sujarul Haque, son of Abul Hussain & Jerina Hussain is missing for 15 days under Dalgaon Police station, Village Punia, Fakirpara, Kharupetia. He is studying at Fakirpara M.E. School at class VII. If anyone found anywhere, please inform to below contact number: 9864042151. Rafique Ali, Punia LP School, Punia
The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was celebrated by the Mission North East, a leading NGO of Baksa district in collaboration with the State Anti Drug and Prohibitipon Council, Assam at the Mission North East Children Home under Juvenile JHustice Care and Protection Act 2000 and Amendment Act 2006 on June 26 in a day long programme. Rajib Das, Barama
Eight Bangladeshi Nationals namely Md Nurnabi (14 yrs) P.S- Nageswari, Kurigram (BD), Ali Rabbani (15 yrs) P.S- Nageswari, Kurigram (BD) and Azab Ali (80) of Fulbari, Kurigram (BD) with his entire family comprising of his wife, 01 daughter and 03 sons from the border area of Seoti under Dinhata police station (WB) at about 0100 hrs today. It is learnt from the preliminary questioning that they had illegally entered into Indian Territory and had been working in a brick kiln at Sonepat (Haryana) for last one year. But as the kiln have shut down due to rains, they (BD nationals) planned to return to Bangladesh with the help of an Indian tout namely Hafiz Ali of Dinhata who himself had...
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, his wife Dolly Gogoi and son Gaurav Gogoi, Secretary, Youth Forum on Foreign Policy visited Nehru Centre, London on 11 am, June 26, 2013. They paid their tribute to Dr. Bhupen Hazarika's picture. They also meets Lord Swraj Paul at House of Lords along with Rini Kakati, NRI Assam Co-ordinator for UK.
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