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So far Organisation (ISRO) were also there is no word on the fate of used to map the area besides six officers, five airmen and two unmanned aerial non-combatant aboard the ill- vehicles(UAV). The IAF also ! ! ( ! *( ,-&../ fated plane. announced a reward of 5 lakh 0 ! ( & 2 ,3 Efforts are now on to find for anyone providing informa- + +$ the survivors, but it may take tion about giving information a day or two more before the about the location of the air- *+, -. of Maulana Azad Education ground troops reach the site craft. Air Force Chief BS Foundation at Antyodaya located in dense forests and Dhanoa had visited Jorhat last Bhawan here. mountainous terrain. weekend to review the opera- Several scholarships such The plane had taken off district. The reason behind tions and met the families of as pre-matric, post-matric and from Jorhat in Assam for concentrating on these three the missing personnel. Defence merit-cum-means will be pro- Mechuka advanced landing areas is that it forms a triangle, Minister Rajnath Singh too 782$8/9 vided to 5 crore students for 5 ground in Arunachal Pradesh they said, the areas are in the met family members of some of years, Naqvi said. on June 3 at12.25 pm and was Incidentally, an AN-32 had and establish survivors. Further dos are likely to be airdropped flight path of the ill-fated air- the personnel in New Delhi last n a major outreach towards He said the Modi supposed to land at Mechuka, crashed in the same area in the details will be communicated as near the wreckage site to look craft and the debris was near week and assured them of all I“minority” community, the Government has created an located at an altitude of 6,000 same month in 2009 and all the the recovery actions progress.” for survivors and establish the Tato. Moreover, after it lost possible help. Centre on Tuesday announced atmosphere of healthy inclusive feet, about 1. 20 pm. The dis- 13 passengers were killed. Retrieval of the wreckage lines of communications with radio contact, the plane, which At present, the IAF has scholarships for 5 crore minor- growth by eradicating “disease tance between Jorhat and Confirming the sighting of and survivors will be the next the air effort and ground obviously could not have nearly 100 Russian origin twin ity students, including 50 per of communalism” and appease- Mechuka is 206 km as the crow the wreckage, the IAF said on big challenge as the massive patrols of the Army, ITBP and turned back, may have contin- engine turboprop aircraft cent for girls, in next five-years ment politics. He said the pro- flies and the flying time is near- Tuesday, “An An-32 of the search and rescue operation has the local police. This will help ued on the designated route, inducted into service in mid and sought to “mainstream” gramme for the mainstreaming ly 50 minutes. When it did not Indian Air Force went missing to contend with terrain and them reach the exact spot for they said. It is feared that the 1980s. After the 2009 mishap, madrasa education. of the madrasa education land at Mechuka at the sched- on 3 June, 2019, after getting inclement weather. The miss- gathering the wreckage and plane hit a hill and crashed as India inked a 400-million dol- “There are a large number would be launched next month. uled time, the IAF launched a airborne from Air Force ing personnel include Wing carrying out other related activ- the altitude at which the debris lar deal with Ukraine for of madrasas across the country. Modernisation of madrasas search operation. Station, Jorhat, Assam. The Commander GM Charles, ities, they said. The operation was found indicates. However, upgrading the AN-32s and at They will be connected with is in line with Modi’s plan that Mechuka advanced land- wreckage of the aircraft was Squadron Leader H Vinod, will take a few more days, they the detailed court of enquiry least 50 planes have been retro- the formal education and he laid out in run-up to Lok ing ground is the lifeline of the spotted today 16 km north of Flight Lieutenants Mohit Garg, added. will establish the reasons for the fitted so far. However, the plane mainstream education so that Sabha elections in 2014. “Hold troops posted on the Line of Lipo, north-east of Tato at an Sumit Mohanty, Ashish Tanwar The wreckage site is on mishap, they added. which crashed was not upgrad- those children studying there Quran in one hand and com- Actual Control (LAC) facing approximate elevation of and Rajesh Thapa. The other scheduled flight path of the The massive search and ed. An AN-32 en route Port can contribute in the develop- puter in other,” Modi had said. China. Planes and helicopters 12,000 ft by the IAF Mi-17 heli- ranks include Anoop, Sharin, AN-32. The search and rescue rescue operation spread over Blair from Chennai in July ment of society,” said Union While chairing the meet- ferry personnel, food and copter undertaking search in KK Mishra, Pankaj Sangwan, operation for the last one week more than 1,000 square km for 2016 carrying 29 passengers is Minister for Minority Affairs ing, Naqvi said the Centre has ammunition for the troops at the expanded search zone. SK Singh, Rajesh Kumar and focused on three areas, includ- the last one week was marred missing so far and feared to Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. proved to be a “government of the landing ground, just 30 km Efforts are now continuing to Putali. ing Along, Tato and Payum by bad weather for some days. crashed and drowned in the The Minister chaired the authority, justice and integrity”. from the LAC. establish the status of occupants Small teams of comman- near Mechuka in West Siang It saw deployment of two SU- Bay of Bengal. 112th governing body meeting Continued on Page 4 $ %& ' Q R ! ! .;/.0 with a Jet Airways employee. ' During questioning by the 782$8/9 ost poll violence claimed NIA, he confessed to the crime Pmore lives in West Bengal as % and told investigators that he bserving that right to lib- Chief Minister Mamata had done it in the hope that it Oerty is sacrosanct and Banerjee on Tuesday installed ( ) would force Jet Airways to “non-negotiable”, the Supreme a new bust of the Renaissance close its Delhi operation and Court on Tuesday ordered that icon Ishwar Chandra ' his girlfriend, who worked in journalist Prashant Kanojia, Vidyasagar and warned the This edition of * the airline’s Delhi office, would arrested for sharing objection- Centre against any attempt to shift to Mumbai, said an NIA able posts on UP Chief impose President Rule in the official. Minister Yogi Adityanath, be State. The bust was allegedly includes a special The threat note by Salla, immediately released on bail. pulled down by BJP workers which asked the plane to be Making it clear that grant- during a party roadshow dur- four-page supplement 782$8/9 Salla was accused by the flown into Pakistan-occupied ing bail cannot be construed as ing the Lok Sabha elections. Russia National Day National Investigation Agency Kashmir, had triggered a major approval of the posts or tweets, “If you talk about such on special NIA court in (NIA) of creating a mid-flight mid-flight scare and the plane the SC slammed the UP steps being taken (read impo- AAhmedabad on Tuesday hijack scare on a Delhi-bound had to be diverted to Government for the “exces- sition of Article 356) then I awarded life imprisonment to flight from Mumbai by leaving Ahmedabad where it made an siveness” of its action and ques- must say it will not be that easy. a Mumbai-based businessman a hijack threat note written in emergency landing. Following tioned his nearly two-week We are not sitting here wearing and imposed a hefty fine of 5 English and Urdu inside the this, all the 116 passengers on judicial custody, asking, “Is bangles. There will be conse- crore on him for a mid-flight aircraft’s toilet. board were made to disembark this a case of murder?” quences,” she said. hijack hoax on a Mumbai- In May last year, Salla at the Ahmedabad airport and Asserting fundamental She said the BJP is trying Delhi Jet Airways flight carry- became the first person to be screened. right guaranteed under the to spread violence and create ing 116 passengers on board in put on the no-fly list.
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