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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Another Assam youth Manish Kumar Deka is likely to climb the great mountain on Sunday. Deka would be taking a shot at the summit.The new achievement is set to strike a day after Tarun Saikia created history by becoming the first Assamese to conquer Mt Everest.Tarun Saikia hailing from Guwahati had scaled the highest peak at 5-30 am on Saturday along with five others. The six members group comprised of a class XI student of Manipur, Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba; a mother of Arunachal Pradesh Ansu Jamsepa; David Zohmangaiha of Mizoram; Wangsuk Myrthong of Meghalaya and Kazi Sherpa of Sikkim.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council is all set to announce the HS results in all streams on Monday. The results would be available for all at 10 in the morning. Students can view the results through online websites on the mentioned date, for the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) which conducted the examination in the month of March 2013. Candidates can view their results by entering their roll code and roll number in http://resultsassam.nic.in/. The Higher Secondary Examination was conducted in twenty six districts across 823 centres across the state including Bongaigaon, Cachar, Chirang, Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Dima, Golaghat, Hailakandi,...
Properties worth twenty lakhs were reduced to ashes when a devastating fire broke out at a car workshop in Dibrugarh district on Sunday.The fire took place at Laipuli early in the morning due to electric short circuit which later engulfed the entire workshop. Police took several hours to bring the situation under control. The real extent of damage is yet to be ascertained.
Properties worth twenty lakhs were reduced to ashes when a devastating fire broke out at a car workshop in Dibrugarh district on Sunday.The fire took place at Laipuli early in the morning due to electric short circuit which later engulfed the entire workshop. Police took several hours to bring the situation under control. The real extent of damage is yet to be ascertained.
The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has announced that party General Secretary Aminul Islam would be its candidate for the second seat in the forthcoming Rajya Sabha polls in Assam. Elections will be held to fill up the vacancies which have arisen due to the expiry of the term of office of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is a Rajya Sabha member from Assam, and AGP MP Kumar Deepak Das on June 14 next.
The Tarun Gogoi government completes two years in office. The Chief Minister claimed to have improved in the law and order situation in the state over the past 12 years.He added that the government has been able to bring almost all insurgent outfits to the negotiating table.
Assam has reasons to smile. Two youths bring pride for the state after they scaled the Mount Everest on Saturday.The first North East Indian Mount Everest expedition has scaled the final summit for Mt. Everest from the Everest Base camp. The team comprising 22 members from the region ensured the landmark victory at 5-30 in morning.The North Eastern Council and the Manipur Government sponsored the team consisting entirely of climbers from the region have Tarun Saikia and Manish Kumar Deka from Assam. The team reached Camp-III on May 15 which is located 24,000 feet above the sea level. The 11 climbers who reached Camp-III are N Ching-khein-ganba from Manipur, Kazi Sherpa from Sikkim,...
Guwahati police have arrested a Maoist activist in the city on Saturday. Known as Prasanna Rabha, the youth was picked up from Udalbarka during a combing operation in the area four days after his sister was arrested. Police claimed him to be close associate of central committee member Aklanta Rabha who was arrested last month.
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Its high alert across the state as cyclone Mahasen is likely to hit the north-eastern states during the next 12 hours.
Areas near the Brahmaputra are on high alert and have been closed for the next 2 days and fishermen have been restricted in these areas.
Control rooms have been set up in several district headquarters to help the victims if required. The storm surfaced over the Andaman and Nicobar islands on May 10 and was moving in north-west direction but on May 14.
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