Geneva: Politically disturbed, financially ruined and socially disintegrated, Pakistan continues to witness the assassination of journalists with usual immunity from the government and concerned authorities. The south Asian nation lost one more journalist on 24 May as injured Sindhi journalist Nasrullah Gadani died in a Karachi-based hospital. Nasrullah (40) was attacked by the gunmen in…
Geneva: Expressing utter dismay over the third media persons to be killed in Pakistan within this month, the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) urges the federal government in Islamabad to take serious note of the development and book all the culprits under the law as early as possible. According to…
Guwahati: Expressing shock and dismay over the Dudhnoi incident, where two teenage girls were gang-raped and a youth was killed by a group of hooligans, a nationalist forum in northeast India demands a stringent punishment to those criminals. Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) also urges Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who also holds the…
Alappuzha, Kerala. Board Member of the Sree Narayana Trust (SN Trust) Preeti Natesan stated that RSS has been engaged in silent charitable work. She said this while addressing the valedictory programme (on 19 May) of RSS Kerala Prant Sangh Shiksha Varg. Preeti Natesan is the wife of Vellapalli Natesan, the General Secretary of Sree Narayana…
Imphal (Manipur). State government has taken legal action against the Kuki militant group, Kuki National Front (Military Council), for allegedly renaming and transforming a sacred hill into their camp. The FIR was filed following the circulation of a photograph showing a signboard at the foothills of Thangjing Ching in Bishnupur district, which identified the site…
New Delhi. NIA on Tuesday cracked down on multiple locations in four states as part of its efforts to uncover the entire conspiracy behind the Rameshwaram Café Blast Case and to identify the other conspirators involved in handling the accused from abroad. In a coordinated action, NIA teams searched 11 locations in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana,…
In a fierce battle with suspected Kuki militants at midnight on May 18, the Assam Rifles successfully led the rescue and evacuation of around 75 Meira Paibis (Meiteis). During an intense attack by armed miscreants that lasted over two hours, the security forces demonstrated remarkable dominance and ensured the safety of all civilians involved. An…
Guwahati: The murder accused Jamiruddin Qureshi, who escaped police custody on the way to Uttar Pradesh, has been re-arrested from Bhiwandi in Maharashtra on 19 May. Jamiruddin, who is a prime suspect in the murder of journalist Ashutosh Shrivastava in Jaunpur locality of UP, fled from the train in Khandawa railway station of Madhya Pradesh…
Guwahati: Expressing utter dismay over the incident of physical assaults on two local residents of Mangaldoi in central Assam by a group of Bangladeshi origin vendors recently, an influential anti-influx body urged the concerned authorities to take necessary actions. Prabajan Virodhi Manch (PVM) in a media statement argued that Mangaldoi municipal board and Darrang district…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the killing of another journalist in Pakistan within a fortnight and demands a fair probe into the incident, where Mehar Ashfaq Siyal was shot dead in Muzaffargarh locality of Punjab province by the miscreants. Mehar, who was associated with…
