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  • Ashes of General Bipin Rawat, wife immersed in Ganga in Haridwar

    By PTI

    DEHRADUN: The ashes of General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika were immersed in the Ganga in Haridwar by their two daughters on Saturday.

    The rituals were conducted by priests Aditya Vashisth and Parikshit Sikhola as the urns containing the ashes of General Rawat and his wife were emptied into the holy river by their daughters, Tarini and Kritika, amid full military honours.

    Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met the two sisters at the VIP ghat. He said General Rawat will forever remain lodged in people’s memory.

    India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Rawat and his wife Madhulika were killed, along with 11 others, in a tragic helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on December 8. General Rawat hailed from Saina village in Uttarakhand’s Pauri district.

  • Army helicopter crash: Search operation for missing pilots resumes in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kathua

    By PTI

    JAMMU: The search operation to trace the missing pilots of an Army helicopter that crashed into the Ranjit Sagar dam lake in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua resumed on Wednesday, officials said. The crash occurred on Tuesday morning.

    The rescue operation was suspended at night. The dam is located about 30 kilometers from Pathankot in Punjab and the lake in which the helicopter crashed is shared by Punjab and J-K governments. Deep sea divers of the Navy are also part of the operation, the officials said.

    The depth of the crash site has been measured to be over 200 feet. Some pieces of the helicopter were found on Tuesday after forces and boats were mobilised for the search operation, Kathua Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) RC Kotwal had said.

    Eyewitnesses had said the chopper was flying over the lake when it suddenly came down and crashed into the water. During Tuesday’s search operation, a helmet, two big size bags, one shoe, I-cards and some helicopter parts were recovered.