Guwahati: Assam Governor professor Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated the platinum jubilee celebration of Gauhati University (GU) at the university premises in Jalukbari locality of the city on Saturday. The year-long celebration will come to an end on 26 January next year. Speaking on the occasion, Governor Mukhi said that embarking into the platinum jubilee year, the…
Guwahati: Assam Book Fair (Asom Granthamela) is concluding on Sunday with significant support from the bookworms as the 12-day event witnessed sale of publications worth nearly rupees five crore till Saturday. Amidst the threat of spreading novel coronavirus, the book fair organisers followed necessary precautions since the first day. Organised by Asom Prakashan Parishad (the…
Geneva, January 7, 2022 (PEC) Nearly 2000 journalists died of Covid-19 in 94 countries since March 2020. Last year, in 2021, at least 1400 media workers succumbed to the virus, that is to say 116 par month or some 4 per day on average, announced Friday in Geneva the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). No continent…
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday distributed cheques to women beneficiaries at a function held in Dibrugarh As part of Assam micro-finance incentive and relief scheme (AMFIRS) 2021. It may be noted that to incentivise good credit discipline, the first phase of the scheme was launched at Sonitpur on 28 November last…
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Geneva: Expressing shock over the repeated incident of targeting women, including many Indian scribes in social media, the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) demands proper actions against the individuals behind the ‘Bulli Bai’ online application. It may be mentioned that over a hundred women, largely Muslim personalities, were listed with…
Guwahati: Reacting to a viral social media post insisting on India’s diplomatic liberty out of the Commonwealth of Nations, Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) bats for appointing ambassadors (instead of high commissioners) in most of the 53 Commonwealth countries, so that the Union Government in New Delhi can pursue diplomatic relationships with these nations without…
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), while appreciating the State government’s decision to judiciously use the government sponsored security cover to individuals, urges the concerned media persons to abandon the same voluntarily so that those personnel can be engaged in proper channels. It may be mentioned that Assam government in a recent resolution decided to allot…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, wishes all media workers around the world a happy, secured and prosperous new year 2022. The bygone year witnessed the killing of 79 media employees by assailants in 29 countries marking an improvement in journo-murder index by 14% where 92 were killed last…
Guwahati: Asom Granthamela (Assam Book Fair) begins at Assam Engineering Institute playground at Chandmari locality in the city amidst the threat of corona-spread across Bharat, where thousands of book-lovers thronged braving the increasing cold wave in the region. The 12-day event has attracted nearly 150 book-publishing groups comprising 10 from Bangladesh, 10 from New Delhi…
