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Five days after the helicopter that he was using went missing, Arunachal Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu has been found dead in Luguthang, near the China border.* The four other people on board with him have also died.1:00 pm: A tribute to Dorjee KhanduOne of the most popular leaders from the North East, news of Khandu’s chopper crash saddens the country. Here's a tribute to the CM that everyone loved12: 45 pm: BREAKING NEWS: The ministry of external affairs confirmed on Wednesday that Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu has been killed in a chopper crash. The chopper crashed between Kyela and Lobothang near Tawang district.
12: 40 pm: Journalism at its sparkling best:
For lovers of good journalism, here's an indispensable resource: courtesy the Atlantic, a compilation of the best stories of 2010Consider, for instance, this effort from Mother Jones: Inside India's Rent A Womb Business, by Scott Carney
12:30 pm: Tata's 40km/litre diesel Nano
Tata continues to amuse us. The company is now planning to launch a Nano model that will run 40 kilometres on a litre of diesel, matching the mileage of a typical 180cc motorcycle. It will be the most fuel-efficient car in India. Business Standard has the story12:25 pm: Congress takes on Modi on Right to Education Act
Gujarat Congress today criticised Chief Minister Narendra Modi for not implementing the Right to Education Act (RTE) in the state.
"Many states have introduced Right to Education law in the last two years. However, Gujarat Chief Minister, who claims to be Number one administrator, has not introduced this student-friendly law so far," Leader of Opposition and Congress member Shaktisinh Gohil said.
12:20 pm: Swamy's plea not tenable in law: CBI
The CBI today filed its reply on Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy''s plea seeking his appointment as public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case saying it was "not tenable" in law.
The agency told Special CBI Judge O P Saini that Swamy''s prayer to appoint him as a public prosecutor is "not tenable" in law and his private complaint may be dealt separately. Full story
12:15 pm: On May 3, the Reserve Bank of India announced the annual monetary policy and soon after, stock markets dipped 2.5%, with some stocks falling as much as 10%. Our monetary policy is one of those things no one really cares about until it gets to a point where it hurts them — and this is such a time. It sometimes isn't entirely clear why the RBI's actions should impact the stock market, Deepak Shenoy takes a closer look
12:00 pm: Kalmadi to be produced in court
Former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee and congress MP, Suresh kalmadi will be produced in the Patiala House courts in the Capital today. Kalmadi's 8-day CBI remand also comes to an end today.
As Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Commonwealth Game, Kalmadi is accused of corruption - of inducing and benefitting from it - by delivering inflated contracts to companies that charged exorbitant rates for equipment and services employed for the Games that were held in September in India.
11:45 am: At a press briefing in Delhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram did not confirm whether the helicopter wreckage found in Arunachal Pradesh belongs to missing Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu. "We are keeping fingers crossed...let us await for official word," he said.
<span class="yui-media"/> 11:30 am: "The search teams located the crash site. The search teams have seen three bodies there, but the bodies not been identified yet," said Shambhu Singh, Joint Secretary (Northeast).
11:20 am: Read the Government statement on search operations
11:15 am: Bodies given to defence forces to be airlifted
11:05 am: Bodies found in decomposed state in area called Lobthang - Sources
11:00 am: Update on Arunachal CM
The wreckage of the helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others, that went missing on Saturday, has been located. Mr Khandu and all others on the helicopter have died, TV channels report
The four-seat, single-engine Pawan Hans helicopter went missing 20 minutes after take-off from Tawang on Saturday morning. Besides Mr Khandu, others on board were pilots Captain J S Babbar, Captain T S Mamik, Mr Khandu's security officer Yeshi Choddak and Yeshi Lhamu, sister of Tawang MLA, Tsewang Dhondup.
10:30 am: Search for Arunachal CM
With the weather improving, the IAF today pressed six choppers to search for the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu as search parties scoured five locations in West Kameng and eastern Bhutan.
10:15 am: Heat wave grips North India
As the temperatures soar above 40 degree Celsius across most parts in northern India, locals from Rohtak advocated use of home remedies to beat the heat.
10:00 am: India had told US that Osama was in Pakistan
It now turns out that Indian agencies had twice warned their US counterparts about the presence of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in an urbanized and heavily populated area not very far from Islamabad – once in mid-2007 and again in early 2008 when they specifically mentioned his likely presence in a cantonment area. On both occasions, the Americans either did not take the Indian intelligence seriously or perhaps were too busy working on their own inputs about Osamas whereabouts. Times of India has the full story9:45 am: 5 days on, reward to trace missing Arunachal CMIt has been five days since Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's chopper went missing, but the search is still on for him.
A desperate search is on not just by the Indian paramilitary forces but also by Bhutanese teams. Bad weather conditions have been hampering search operations that have been on since April 30. The state government has declared a cash award of Rs 10 lakh for any information. Full story
9:30 am: Pakistan will do nothing on 26/11: Further to our earlier update, any notional progress in Indo-Pak relations appears to have come to a grinding halt on the issue of Pakistan taking action against those identified by India as having taken part in terrorist operations on Indian soil. India Today reports that the establishment in New Delhi is fairly pessimistic about action from across the border, and points out that nothing had been done despite Home Minister P Chidambaram personally visiting Islamabad in 2010 with a list of names, and nothing is likely to get done now. Quote:
"The government may use this opportunity to again hand over a list to Pakistan of the 40-odd fugitives it alleges find sanctuary in Pakistan. But our experience shows, since 2004 whenever pressed on the issue, Pakistan ignores or rubbishes such lists. India knows where its wanted men are hiding, even their addresses, but can do nothing about it," a source said.
Pre-empting such a move following Chidambaram's renewed demand for Pakistan to arrest the 26/ 11 plotters, Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir said India's demand was outdated.
"It is a familiar line and outdated. It is some part of the old system repeating itself. This line of thinking is mired in a mindset that is neither realistic nor productive. Such statements are not very helpful," Bashir said, referring to Chidambaram's statement.
<span readability="2">9:20 am: Did US use Laden for its own political good?Commenting on the killing of world's most wanted militant Osama bin Laden on Monday, Islamic clerics in India criticised the United States of America by saying Washington had exploited Laden for its own polotical good. Watch
9:15 am: AI calls retired pilots to fill the breach:With the Air India pilots strike entering its 8th day, today, and no resolution in the offing, the Air India management has decided to ask retired pilots to come in to work and operate domestic flights. Elsewhere, the Delhi High Court has served criminal contempt notices on nine pilots for disobeying an earlier order to end the strike.
9:00 am: One step forward, two steps back in Indo-Pak relations:
An unintended consequence of the killing of Osama bin Laden earlier this week could be its impact on efforts, spearheaded by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to smoothen ties with Pakistan. Singh, who invited his counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani to Mohali to witness the World Cup semifinal between the two countries in late March, has made no secret of his desire to speed up the process of rapprochement, which he hopes (as Atal Bihari Vajpayee did before him) will set the seal on his prime ministership. However, the fact that Osama was found hiding out within 50 km of the Pakistan capital, right in the middle of its military establishment, has given ammunition to the political opposition's argument that Pakistan has not done enough to end terrorism and is therefore not yet deserving of the hand of friendship. Making matters worse is the fact that Home Minister P Chidambaram was among the first to release a caustic statement, shortly after the news of Osama's killing, questioning Pakistan's commitment to ending terrorism fomented on its soil. The relationship needed a kick of some kind; unfortunately, reports the New York Times, the kick has come in the opposite direction.
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Five days after the helicopter that he was using went missing, Arunachal Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu has been found dead in Luguthang, near the China border.* The four other people on board with him have also died.1:00 pm: A tribute to Dorjee KhanduOne of the most popular leaders from the North East, news of Khandu’s chopper crash saddens the country. Here's a tribute to the CM that everyone loved12: 45 pm: BREAKING NEWS: The ministry of external affairs confirmed on Wednesday that Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu has been killed in a chopper crash. The chopper crashed between Kyela and Lobothang near Tawang district.
12: 40 pm: Journalism at its sparkling best:
For lovers of good journalism, here's an indispensable resource: courtesy the Atlantic, a compilation of the best stories of 2010Consider, for instance, this effort from Mother Jones: Inside India's Rent A Womb Business, by Scott Carney
12:30 pm: Tata's 40km/litre diesel Nano
Tata continues to amuse us. The company is now planning to launch a Nano model that will run 40 kilometres on a litre of diesel, matching the mileage of a typical 180cc motorcycle. It will be the most fuel-efficient car in India. Business Standard has the story12:25 pm: Congress takes on Modi on Right to Education Act
Gujarat Congress today criticised Chief Minister Narendra Modi for not implementing the Right to Education Act (RTE) in the state.
"Many states have introduced Right to Education law in the last two years. However, Gujarat Chief Minister, who claims to be Number one administrator, has not introduced this student-friendly law so far," Leader of Opposition and Congress member Shaktisinh Gohil said.
12:20 pm: Swamy's plea not tenable in law: CBI
The CBI today filed its reply on Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy''s plea seeking his appointment as public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case saying it was "not tenable" in law.
The agency told Special CBI Judge O P Saini that Swamy''s prayer to appoint him as a public prosecutor is "not tenable" in law and his private complaint may be dealt separately. Full story
12:15 pm: On May 3, the Reserve Bank of India announced the annual monetary policy and soon after, stock markets dipped 2.5%, with some stocks falling as much as 10%. Our monetary policy is one of those things no one really cares about until it gets to a point where it hurts them — and this is such a time. It sometimes isn't entirely clear why the RBI's actions should impact the stock market, Deepak Shenoy takes a closer look
12:00 pm: Kalmadi to be produced in court
Former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee and congress MP, Suresh kalmadi will be produced in the Patiala House courts in the Capital today. Kalmadi's 8-day CBI remand also comes to an end today.
As Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Commonwealth Game, Kalmadi is accused of corruption - of inducing and benefitting from it - by delivering inflated contracts to companies that charged exorbitant rates for equipment and services employed for the Games that were held in September in India.
11:45 am: At a press briefing in Delhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram did not confirm whether the helicopter wreckage found in Arunachal Pradesh belongs to missing Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu. "We are keeping fingers crossed...let us await for official word," he said.
<span class="yui-media"/> 11:30 am: "The search teams located the crash site. The search teams have seen three bodies there, but the bodies not been identified yet," said Shambhu Singh, Joint Secretary (Northeast).
11:20 am: Read the Government statement on search operations
11:15 am: Bodies given to defence forces to be airlifted
11:05 am: Bodies found in decomposed state in area called Lobthang - Sources
11:00 am: Update on Arunachal CM
The wreckage of the helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others, that went missing on Saturday, has been located. Mr Khandu and all others on the helicopter have died, TV channels report
The four-seat, single-engine Pawan Hans helicopter went missing 20 minutes after take-off from Tawang on Saturday morning. Besides Mr Khandu, others on board were pilots Captain J S Babbar, Captain T S Mamik, Mr Khandu's security officer Yeshi Choddak and Yeshi Lhamu, sister of Tawang MLA, Tsewang Dhondup.
10:30 am: Search for Arunachal CM
With the weather improving, the IAF today pressed six choppers to search for the missing helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu as search parties scoured five locations in West Kameng and eastern Bhutan.
10:15 am: Heat wave grips North India
As the temperatures soar above 40 degree Celsius across most parts in northern India, locals from Rohtak advocated use of home remedies to beat the heat.
10:00 am: India had told US that Osama was in Pakistan
It now turns out that Indian agencies had twice warned their US counterparts about the presence of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in an urbanized and heavily populated area not very far from Islamabad – once in mid-2007 and again in early 2008 when they specifically mentioned his likely presence in a cantonment area. On both occasions, the Americans either did not take the Indian intelligence seriously or perhaps were too busy working on their own inputs about Osamas whereabouts. Times of India has the full story9:45 am: 5 days on, reward to trace missing Arunachal CMIt has been five days since Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's chopper went missing, but the search is still on for him.
A desperate search is on not just by the Indian paramilitary forces but also by Bhutanese teams. Bad weather conditions have been hampering search operations that have been on since April 30. The state government has declared a cash award of Rs 10 lakh for any information. Full story
9:30 am: Pakistan will do nothing on 26/11: Further to our earlier update, any notional progress in Indo-Pak relations appears to have come to a grinding halt on the issue of Pakistan taking action against those identified by India as having taken part in terrorist operations on Indian soil. India Today reports that the establishment in New Delhi is fairly pessimistic about action from across the border, and points out that nothing had been done despite Home Minister P Chidambaram personally visiting Islamabad in 2010 with a list of names, and nothing is likely to get done now. Quote:
"The government may use this opportunity to again hand over a list to Pakistan of the 40-odd fugitives it alleges find sanctuary in Pakistan. But our experience shows, since 2004 whenever pressed on the issue, Pakistan ignores or rubbishes such lists. India knows where its wanted men are hiding, even their addresses, but can do nothing about it," a source said.
Pre-empting such a move following Chidambaram's renewed demand for Pakistan to arrest the 26/ 11 plotters, Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir said India's demand was outdated.
"It is a familiar line and outdated. It is some part of the old system repeating itself. This line of thinking is mired in a mindset that is neither realistic nor productive. Such statements are not very helpful," Bashir said, referring to Chidambaram's statement.
<span readability="2">9:20 am: Did US use Laden for its own political good?Commenting on the killing of world's most wanted militant Osama bin Laden on Monday, Islamic clerics in India criticised the United States of America by saying Washington had exploited Laden for its own polotical good. Watch
9:15 am: AI calls retired pilots to fill the breach:With the Air India pilots strike entering its 8th day, today, and no resolution in the offing, the Air India management has decided to ask retired pilots to come in to work and operate domestic flights. Elsewhere, the Delhi High Court has served criminal contempt notices on nine pilots for disobeying an earlier order to end the strike.
9:00 am: One step forward, two steps back in Indo-Pak relations:
An unintended consequence of the killing of Osama bin Laden earlier this week could be its impact on efforts, spearheaded by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to smoothen ties with Pakistan. Singh, who invited his counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani to Mohali to witness the World Cup semifinal between the two countries in late March, has made no secret of his desire to speed up the process of rapprochement, which he hopes (as Atal Bihari Vajpayee did before him) will set the seal on his prime ministership. However, the fact that Osama was found hiding out within 50 km of the Pakistan capital, right in the middle of its military establishment, has given ammunition to the political opposition's argument that Pakistan has not done enough to end terrorism and is therefore not yet deserving of the hand of friendship. Making matters worse is the fact that Home Minister P Chidambaram was among the first to release a caustic statement, shortly after the news of Osama's killing, questioning Pakistan's commitment to ending terrorism fomented on its soil. The relationship needed a kick of some kind; unfortunately, reports the New York Times, the kick has come in the opposite direction.
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