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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PP Varma will be new chief secretary. “Today I am making it public. He will take charge after Das retires on the last day of this month," Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in Guwahati Varma, a 1978 batch IAS officer, is currently the Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Social Welfare and Public Health Engineering Departments. The incumbent Naba Kumar Das, a 1976 batch IAS officer, will retire on June 30.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi dropped hint of contesting again in the 2016 assembly elections.Talking to reporters in Dispur on Saturday, Gogoi sent out a strong signal to the dissidents that he will contest for the top post. He said claimed that he has full support from the party high command.He further called dissidence is a small issue.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday paid tributes to freedom fighter Swahid Kushal Konwar on the occasion of his 70th death anniversary at Nehru Park in Guwahati. Gogoi paid floral tributes at the statue of the freedom fighter from Assam who had laid down his life for the freedom of the country. Konwar was the only martyr in the country who was hanged during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) and Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) express serious concern that the media persons, more precisely the television journalists, are becoming more vulnerable for attacks in the duty hours. The recent attack on a group of television journalists in West Bengal have emerged as a grim reminder that the goons in the society are now bent upon crushing the vibrant media across eastern India.In a joint statement issued today, both EMFA and JFA have however appreciated the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her quick response to the issue that resulted in the arrest of more than ten persons including the suspected mastermind Shibu Yadav. Mr Yadav, who is...
Heatwave toll goes up to 11 on Thursday after three persons person died of heatstroke in Goalpara on Thursday. Before that two persons died in Bokakhat and Gohpur. A street dweller was killed in the heat on Wednesday. The body was found under the Ulubari flyover. Apart from him, a 70-year-old man, Sibulal Rabidas, died in the heatwave at Lalamukh Tea Garden in Hailakandi district. A 65-year-old man died of heatstroke in the Labourputa area of Cachar district. In Nagaon district, one person died due to the heat. But there is no sig of any relief on Thursday. Guwahati is set to break 33 year old record on Thursday.
No relief seems to be waiting the sun-burnt people on Thursday.
Guwahati is set to break 33 year old record on Thursday. The city was
hit by temperature of 39 degree Celsius on Wednesday. The death toll
due to the heatwave went up to 3 in the city on Wednesday.
Heatwave toll goes up to 9 on Thursday after a person died of
heatstroke in Digboi on Thursday. A street dweller was killed in the
heat on Wednesday. The body was found under the Ulubari flyover. Apart
from him, a 70-year-old man, Sibulal Rabidas, died in the heatwave at
Lalamukh Tea Garden in Hailakandi district. A 65-year-old man died of
heatstroke in the Labourputa area of Cachar district. In Nagaon
district, one person died due to the heat.
The regional meteorological centre in Guwahati recorded a maximum
temperature of 38.8°C on Wednesday. It predicts hardly any relief
during the next 48 hours. Schools and colleges are remaining closed
under the impact of the heat-wave. The Kamrup (Metro) district
administration has instructed schools across Guwahati to remain shut
on Thursday and Friday.
Amid growing revolt against Tarun Gogoi, AICC has ruled out a change in the chief ministership which has downplayed the dissidence.Party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary told reporters in Delhi, “some people have certain views. They have come here to voice those. Concerned people will discuss the issue with them."Gogoi's recent visit to the capital fuelled speculation that he was demanding that certain ministers in the state opposed to him should be dropped.
A group of rebel Congress MLAs have lodged serious complaints to the party leadership against the autocratic style of functioning of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. They alleged that the state is now being run by officials where they have no any say.The MLAs claimed to have got the support of 40 others. They said till the second term of Gogoi government, the MLAs did not have problems in executing works but they have been facing difficulty since Gogoi came to power for the third time in 2011.
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