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Kidnapped 3rd ONGC employee released by ULFA-I militants after 31 days near Myanmar border
Kidnapped ONGC employee Ritul Saikia was released by ULFA(I) militants on Saturday morning in Myanmar near its border with India s Nagaland, police said. Responding to an appeal from Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the banned ULFA (I) outfit on Saturday freed ONGC employee Ritul Saikia kidnapped by them over a month back.
The new chief minister of Assam, who paid a visit to home of the kidnapped employee on May 18 and had made an appeal to the insurgent group to set him free, welcomed the release.
Barge P305 crew members rescued by Navy walk out of INS Kochi after arriving in Mumbai
New Delhi: The ill-fated Afcons barge Papaa (P-305) moved only 200 metres away from the unmanned offshore platform off Bombay High where it was working, a distance the vessel’s master appears to have considered safe as per projections of cyclone Tauktae’s wind speed and depression, Afcons, which had chartered the vessel for an ONGC contract, said in a statement on Thursday.
Going by the statement, it now appears the barge would not have capsized had it moved further away and had the master considered a bigger margin for error in predicting cyclones that are known to be fickle and can change projected course and ferocity.
Arabian Sea barge tragedy toll rises to 37
Arabian Sea barge tragedy toll rises to 37
IANS / Updated: May 21, 2021, 06:00 IST
Rescue mission by the
Indian Navy continues as 40 are still missing
MUMBAI The death toll in the barge tragedy near Bombay High Fields increased to 37 with 11 more bodies recovered and brought to shore, officials said here on Thursday. On Wednesday, at least 26 persons on board the drifting Barge Papaa-305 were found dead in the stormy Arabian Sea in the aftermath of the
Cyclone Tauktae.
Centre ordered a probe into the tragedy.
The 37 bodies have been brought to Mumbai by Indian Navy ships which had gone on dare-devil rescue missions since the past 72 hours.
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The Yellowgate Police Station has lodged a first information report invoking charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the Master of the Barge Papua-305 and others in connection with the tragedy in the Arabian Sea which left at least 49 dead and much more missing, officials said here on Friday.
The police have acted on a complaint filed by the Barge chief engineer Rahman H. Shaikh who was among the survivors picked up by the Indian Navy rescue ships earlier this week.
The development came two days after the police launched its probe to ascertain why the barge allegedly failed to adhere to safety norms despite warnings of the impending Cyclone Tauktae which wreaked havoc on the country s west coast last Sunday onwards.
Chances Of Peace Dawning In Assam Brighten With ULFA(I)âs Peace Overtures To Himanta Biswa Sarma
by Jaideep Mazumdar - May 21, 2021 11:47 AM
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. (Twitter)
Snapshot
This is the proscribed outfitâs third ceasefire offer. The first was in 1991 close on the heels of âOperation Bajrangâ launched by the army.
The second was in 2006 when the Union government under prime minister Manmohan Singh extended an invitation to ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa for talks.
A little over 42 years since the formation of the
United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), chances of permanent peace dawning on Assam have brightened with the