Two Indian Air Force aircrafts that went missing a decade apart share several eerie coincidences. On Monday, an IAF Antonov AN-32 went missing with 13 personnel on board near Mechuka in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, 10 years after another Antonov AN-32 crashed in the same location with same number of people on board. The AN-32 went missing from the radar at about 1 pm Monday while it was about 30 km away from Mechuka advanced landing ground, according to sources quoted by The Print. The wreckage is yet to be found amid a massive search operation launched by…
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Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will visit Surguja region on Monday and will also preside over a key meeting of Surguja Development Authority (SDA) to push development of the region which is mired into backwardness for decades. Official sources informed that he will distribute forest right land titles to the local tribals at circuit house Ambikapur in the morning and will also attend a workshop on forest rights to be held at district headquarters, Ambikapur. Later in the evening the Chief Minister will also participate in the Chaupal programme to be held at Sargawan of the region. Health and Panchayat Minister…
In a clear indication that she is not happy with the performance of the ‘gathbandhan’ with Samajwadi Party in the just-held Lok Sabha polls, BSP chief Mayawati Monday asked party workers not to depend on alliance to win votes but to improve the party’s organisation. At a meeting of the Bahujan Samaj Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit here, she also asked the office bearers, MLAS and newly-elected MPs to be prepared to contest the assembly by-elections on their own, sources aware of the development said here. A total of 11 assembly bypolls are due in UP after MLAs won the Lok…
An AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force with 13 people onboard has gone missing after taking off from Jorhat in Assam. The aircraft was headed to Mechuka Advance Landing Ground, the landing strip in the eastern Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh’s West Siang district. The landing strip is about 30-odd km from the nearest point on the India-China border. The transport aircraft took off from Jorhat at 12.25 pm. It was in contact with ground agencies for the next 35 minutes. An Indian Air Force official said there had been no contact after 1 pm. “Since the aircraft did not…
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar expanded his cabinet on Sunday by inducting eight ministers. Otherwise a normal exercise and a prerogative of a chief minister, the timing and the manner in which only JD(U) lawmakers were made ministers ignoring ally BJP, has raised many eyebrows. The sudden move by Nitish, also the president of JD(U), is being widely seen as a response to the development in New Delhi on Thursday (30 May, the day the Narendra Modi government was sworn in) when Kumar’s party decided to sit out of the government peeved with Modi’s offer of just one ministerial berth to the JDU. Politely, but…
CM Bhupesh Baghel said Jain huge contribution to the economy of the country’s society has, thanks to his contributions as we move up the head all over the world. He said that there is a huge potential for trade and industry in the state of Chhattisgarh. Is being made new industry policy in the state, Jain society it can play a meaningful role. States are being given priority to agriculture, horticulture, forest-based industries. Shri. Baghel was addressing the reception hosted by the gross Jain society today Jainm Manas Bhavan. This opportunity has been honored with quince Chief shawl on behalf…
Some senior Congressmen from Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh have raised the issue of intra-party democracy with Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. The issue is likely to be discussed at the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting on Saturday to be presided over by Sonia Gandhi. However, the issue is likely to cast aspersions on recently-appointed chief ministers Kamal Nath and Bhupesh Baghel. After the uncertainty in Rajasthan – where Ashok Gehlot is being pressurised by Sachin Pilot’s supporters to resign after the dismal Lok Sabha performance – both Nath and Baghel might find the going tough. Kamal Nath’s mounting predicaments Nath is…
Affirming that Congress’ ideological battle with the BJP will continue, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that despite only 52 Lok Sabha members, Congress will not let BJP “have a walkover in Parliament.”Calling Congress members and workers a “pride of brave hearted lions”, Rahul Gandhi tweeted that the party will continue to protect the Constitution. Addressing the 52 newly-elected Lok Sabha members at the Congress Parliamentary meet, Rahul thanked voters and party workers for supporting the party in the elections.”Every Congress member must remember that each one of you is fighting for the Constitution, for every person in India irrespective of the colour of his…
Modi government 2.0 hit the ground running. The first decisions of first Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, held in less than 24 hours of his Council of Ministers being sworn-in by the President, are pro-poor, pro-farmer, pro-unorganised labor and for welfare of families of soldiers killed in terror and Naxal attacks. The range of decisions taken are significant in at least five counts — first, by doing so he has consolidated gains of massive mandate he got in these elections, current and potential support at the bottom of social and economic pyramid. Second, it gives a sense…
BJP leader Kishan Reddy on Saturday took charge as union minister of state for home affairs in New Delhi along with Nityanand Rai. BJP chief Amit Shah also took charge as Union Home Minister and Rajnath Singh as defence minister. Kishan Reddy won with a huge majority in the parliament elections from Secunderabad constituency. He defeated the TRS candidate Sai Kiran Yadav by a margin of 51,333 votes.